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CHILD CAREAND PROTECTION
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34.-(1) No person shall employ a child who has attained the
Restriction
on employ-
age of thirteen years, but who has not attained the age of fifteen
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years, in the performance of any work other than in an
childover
occupation included on the list of prescribed occupations
thirteen.
referred to in subsection (2).
(2) For the purposes of subsection (I), the Minister shall
maintain a list of prescribed occupations-
(a) consisting of such light work as the Minister
responsible for labour considers appropriate for the
employment of any child of the age referred to in that
subsection; and
(b) specifying the number of hours during which and the
conditions under which such child may be so
employed.
(3) No person shall employ a child-
(a) in the performance of any work that is likely to be
hazardous or to interfere with the child's education or
to be harmful the child's health or physical, mental,
spiritual or social development; or
(b) in night work or an industrial undertaking.
35.--(I) Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 33 and
Exception
for artistic
34, the Minister responsible for labour may, on the advice of the
per-
Council, issue a permit to a child to enable that child to be
fomances.
employed for the purpose of participating in artistic
performances.
(2) A
permit issued pursuant to subsection (1) shall
specify the number of hours during which and the conditions
under which the child may be so employed.
36.
Where any child is employed in contravention of any of
Responsi-
bility for
the provisions of section 33 or 34, any person to whose act,
cant,-
default or representations the contravention is attributable
ventionof
sections
commits
an
offence against this Act and is liable upon summary
,
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conviction before a Resident Magistrate to a fine not exceeding
five hundred thousand dollars or to imprisonment for a term not
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