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Unit 14: The Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986

14.1 Meaning Notes

1. This Act may be called the Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986.

2. It extends to the whole of India.
3. The provisions of this Act, other than Part III, shall come into force at once, and Part III
shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by notifi cation in the
Official Gazette, appoint, and different dates may be appointed for different States and for

different classes of establishments.

Did u know? Under the Act, Child? Means a person who has not completed his fourteenth
year of age. Any such person engaged for wages, whether in cash or kind, is a child
worker.

14.2 Regulation of Conditions of Work of Children

Application of Part

The provisions of this Part shall apply to an establishment or a class of establishments in which
none of the occupations or processes referred to in Sec. 3 is carried on.

This section lays down that provisions of this Part shall apply to an establishment in
which none of the prohibited occupations or processes is carried on.

Hours and Period of Work

(1) No child shall be required or permitted to work in any establishment in excess of such
number of hours as may be prescribed for such establishment or class of establishments.
(2) The period of work on each day shall be so fi xed that no period shall exceed three hours
and that no child shall work for more than three hours before he has had an interval for rest
for at least one hour.
(3) The period of work of a child shall be so arranged that inclusive of his interval for rest,
under sub-section(2), it shall not be spread over more than six hours, including the time
spent in waiting for work on any day.
(a) No child shall be permitted or required to work between 7 p.m. and 8 a.m.

(b) No child shall be permitted or required to work overtime.
(c) No child shall be permitted or required to work in any establishment on any day on
(d) which he has already been working in another establishment.

This section prescribes working hours for a child labour.

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