Child Labour Prohibition Act

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Introduction: The Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986 is one the most debated acts regarding children in India. It outlines where and how children can work and where they cannot. The provisions of the act are meant to be acted upon immediately after the publication of the act, except for part III that discusses the conditions in which a child may work. Part III can only come into effect as per a date appointed by the Central Government (which was decided as 26th of May, 1993). The main objective of this act is to prohibit the engagement of children in certain employments and to regulate the conditions of work or children in other employments. According to this act, a child is defined as a person who has not completed fourteen years of age. This act is applicable to the whole of India. The act speaks of the prohibition of employment of children in certain occupations and process some of which are as follows: 1. Transports of passengers, goods; or mails by railways. 2. Cinder picking, clearing of ash pit or building operation in the railway premise. 3. Work in catering establishment at a railway station, involving the movement of vendor or any other employee of the establishment from one platform to another or into or out of a moving train. 4. Work relating to the construction of railway station or with any other work where such work is done in close proximity to or between the railway lines. 5. The port authority within the limits of any port. 6. Work relating to selling of crackers and fireworks in workshops with temporary licence. 7. Abattoirs/ slaughter houses. 8. Automobile workshops and garages. 9. Foundries. 10. Handling of taxies or inflammable substance or explosives. 11. Handloom and power loom industry. 12. Mines (underground and underwater) and collieries. 13. Plastic units and fibre glass
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