Employment Act 1968 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 8 · Employment of Children and Young Persons
68. Restriction on employment of children
Feedback & supportA person must not employ a child in an industrial or a non‑industrial undertaking except as provided for in subsections (2) and (3).
child
“child” means a person who has not completed his or her 15th year of age;
A child may be employed in an industrial undertaking in which only members of the same family are employed.
industrial undertaking
“industrial undertaking” means public and private undertakings and any branch thereof, and includes particularly —(a)mines, quarries and other works for the extraction of minerals from the earth;(b)undertakings in which articles are manufactured, assembled, altered, cleaned, repaired, ornamented, finished, adapted for sale, broken up or demolished, or in which materials are transformed, including undertakings engaged in shipbuilding, or in the generation, transformation or transmission of electricity or motive power of any kind;(c)undertakings engaged in constructional work; and(d)undertakings engaged in the transport of passengers or goods by road, rail, sea, inland waterway or air, including the handling of goods at docks, quays, wharves, warehouses or airports;
A child who is 13 years of age or above may be employed in light work suited to his or her capacity in a non‑industrial undertaking.
For the purposes of subsection (3), the certificate of a medical officer is conclusive upon the question of whether any work is suited to the capacity of any particular child.
medical officer
“medical officer” means —(a)a medical practitioner employed by the Government or an approved medical institution; or(b)any other medical practitioner whom the Minister declares, by notification in the Gazette, to be a medical officer for the purposes of this Act;