Section 7
Prohibition of persons from engagement or employment for hazardous cleaning of sewers and septic tanks.
The Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act, 2013
About this Act
An Act to provide for the prohibition of employment as manual scavengers, rehabilitation of manual scavengers and their families, and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
No person, local authority or any agency shall, from such date as the StateGovernment
may notify, which shall not be later than one year from the date of commencementof this Act, engage or
employ, either directly or indirectly, any person for hazardous cleaningof a sewer or a septic tank.