Punjab Restriction on Employment of Children Act, 2016

From: 2016-10-29 - To: 0000-00-00 An Act to prohibit the employment of children and to restrict the employment of adolescents in certain occupations and processes. It is necessary to prohibit the employment of children and to restrict the employment of adolescents in certain occupations; and, to deal with ancillary matters. Be it enacted by the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab as follows: 1. Short title, extent and commencement.– (1) This Act may be cited as the Punjab Restriction on Employment of Children Act 2016. (2) It extends to whole of the Punjab. (3) It shall come into force at once. 2. Definitions.– In this Act: (a) adolescent means a person who has attained the age of fifteen years but has not attained the age of eighteen years; (b) “appellate authority” means an authority appointed under the Act; (c) child means a person who has not attained the age of fifteen years; (d) “Committee” means the Provincial Committee on Child Labour constituted under the Act; (e) day means a period of twenty-four hours beginning at midnight; (f) establishment means any industrial, commercial or agricultural establishment, factory, mine, workshop, business, trade, undertaking, and place where any economic activity including moulding and manufacturing process is carried on; and, includes charitable and welfare organizations, whether run for profit or otherwise and any other establishment, class of establishments or workplace notified by the Government in the official Gazette; (g) family, in relation to an occupier, means the spouse, son, daughter or sibling; (h) “Government means Government of the Punjab; (i) “hazardous work” means the work which, by its nature or the circumstances in which it is carried out, is likely to harm the health, safety or morals of adolescents and is mentioned in the Schedule; (j) Inspector means an official appointed as an Inspector under the Act; (k) “occupier means the person who, directly or indirectly, employs a worker in an establishment and includes: (i) in case of an individual, his heir, successor, administrator or assign; and (ii) a person who has the ultimate control over the affairs of the establishment; (l) prescribed means…