Child Act 1960

The Child Act | Introduction & Various Definition under Child Act

INTRODUCTION:

  • The Child and Adolescent Labor (Prohibition & Regulation) Act, 1986 enacted 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. It extends to whole of India.
  • It prohibits employment of children in all occupations and processes to facilitate their enrolment in schools in view of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009

Definition:

Section 2 of the Act defines various terms used in the Act; some of the definitions are given here under:

  • Appropriate Government means, in relation to an establishment under the control of the Central Government or a railway administration or a major port or a mine or oilfield, the Central Government, and in all other cases, the State Government.
  • Adolescent means a person who has completed his fourteenth year of age but has not completed his eighteenth year.
  • Child means a person who has not completed his fourteenth year of age or such age as may be specified in the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009, whichever is more.
  • Day means a period of twenty-four hours beginning at midnight.
  • Establishment includes a shop, commercial establishment, workshop, farm, residential hotel, restaurant, eating-house, theatre or other place of public fun or entertainment.
  • Establishment includes a shop, commercial establishment, workshop, farm, residential hotel, restaurant, eating-house, theatre or other place of public fun or entertainment.
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