HAZARDOUS INDUSTRIES
Employing children is banned in a fixed list of 13 occupations and 57
processes, including railways, ports, abattoirs, cracker-making, mines,
carpet-weaving, bidi-making, automobile repair and zari-making, termed by
the law as ‘hazardous’
The penalty for this is imprisonment from three months to one year or a
fine of Rs 10,000 to Rs 20,000 or both
NON-HAZARDOUS INDUSTRIES
Employing a child in an industry not termed as hazardous is not banned, but
“regulated”
Every child must get an off day
No child must work for more than six hours a day and not for longer than
three hours at a stretch, with a one-hour break
No child must work between 7 pm & 8 am
Every employer must send the designated inspector (for regulating child
labour) notice with the establishment’
must be maintained for inspection by an inspector
Failure to give the inspector a notice, to maintain a register or make
false entries in it is punishable with simple imprisonment up to one month
or a fine of up to Rs 10,000 or both
Any person, police officer or inspector can file a complaint under this
Act in a court
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