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Labour Legislations

Notes 4. Cloth printing, dyeing and weaving

5. Manufacture of matches, explosives and fi re works
6. Mica-cutting and splitting
7. Shellac manufacture

8. Soap manufacture
9. Tanning

10. Wool-cleaning
11. Building and construction industry
12. Manufacture of slate pencils (including packing)

13. Manufacture of products from agate
14. Manufacturing processes using toxic metals and substances such as lead, mercury,
manganese, chromium, cadmium, benzene pesticides and asbestos

15. Hazardous processes, Printing and dangerous operations as notified in the rules of the

Factories Act, 1948
16. Cashew and cashew nut descaling and processing
17. Soldering processes in electronic industries.

14.6 Summary

The Child Labour Act bans the employment of children, below 14 years of age in specifi ed
occupations and processes which are considered unsafe and harmful to child workers and
regulates the conditions of work of children in employment’s where they are not prohibited
from working.
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.
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.

14.7 Keywords

Child Labour: It refers to the employment of children at regular and sustained labour.
Establishment: It includes a shop, commercial establishment, workshop, farm, residential hotel,
and restaurant, eating house, theatre or other place of public amusement or entertainment.

14.8 Self Assessment

One-word/line answers:
1. Register of ABC Ltd. records names and nature of work of all children who work there. Is
their register complete?

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