Act Number: 61

Act Name: The Child and Adolescent Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986

Year: 1986

Enactment Date: 1986-12-23

Long Title: An Act to prohibit the engagement of children in all occupations and to prohibit the engagement of adolescents in hazardous occupations and processes and the matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.

Ministry: Ministry of Labour and Employment

Department:

Section 15: Modified application of certain laws in relation to penalties.
    (1) Where any person is found guilty and convicted of contravention of any of the provisions mentioned in sub-section (2), he shall be liable to penalties as provided in sub-sections (1) and (2) of section 14 of this Act and not under the Acts in which those provisions are contained.
     (2) The provisions referred to in sub-section (1) are the provisions mentioned below:--
         (a) section 67 of the Factories Act, 1948 (63 of 1948);
         (b) section 40 of the Mines Act, 1952 (35 of 1952);
         (c) section 109 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1958 (44 of 1958); and
         (d) section 21 of the Motor Transport Workers Act, 1961 (27 of 1961).
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