Employment of Children –Protective Legal Provisions

Name of Enactment                                                         Protective provisions for children

1)The Children (Pledging of Labour) Act 1933                  Any agreement to pledge the
2)The Beedi and Cigar Workers                                          labour of children is void.
(Condition of Employment)                                                  Employment of children under
Act, 1966                                                                              14 years of age prohibited under
3)The Factories Act, 1948                                                   the law of 1-5.
4)The Mines Act, 1952
5)The Motor Transport Workers Act, 1961


6)The Child Labour (Prohibition &                                     Except in the process of family 
Regulation) Act, 1986                                                        based work or recognised
                                                                                             School based activities, children
                                                                                             Not permitted to work in 
                                                                                             Occupations concerned with –

+ Passenger, goods mail  transport by Railway
+ carpet weaving
+ Cinder picking, cleaning of ash pits
+ Cement manufacturing
+ Building operation construction
+ Cloth printing
+ Dyeing, weaving
+ Manufacturing of matches, explosives, fireworks
+ Catering estt. In Railway premises or port limits
+ Beedi making
+ Mica, cutting, splitting
+ Abattoirs
+ Hazardous Process and Dangerous Operation as
defined, notified in section 2(cb) & section 87 of the Factories Act, 1948 respectively
+ Wool cleaning
+ Printing as defined in Section 2(k) of the Factories Act, 1948
+ Cashew and Cashewnut descaling and processing
+ Soldering process in electronic industries

In occupations and process other than the above mentioned, work by children is permissible only for six
hours between 800AM and 7PM with one day’s weekly rest

Occupier of establishment employing children to give notice to local Inspector and maintain prescribed register.