THE CHILD AND ADOLESCENT (PROHIBITION AND REGULATION) ACT, 1986 
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ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS 
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PART I 

PRELIMINARY 

SECTIONS 

1.  Short title, extent and commencement. 
2.  Definitions. 

PART II 
PROHIBITION OF EMPLOYMENT OF CHILDREN IN CERTAIN OCCUPATIONS AND PROCESSES 

3.  Prohibition of employment of children in any occupation and process. 
3A. Prohibition of employment of adolescents in certain hazardous occupations and processes. 
4.  Power to amend the Schedule. 
5.  Technical Advisory Committee. 

PART III 
REGULATION OF CONDITIONS OF WORK OF CHILDREN 

6.  Application of Part. 
7.  Hours and period of work. 
8.  Weekly holidays. 
9.  Notice to Inspector. 
10.  Disputes as to age. 
11.  Maintenance of register. 
12.  Display of notice containing abstract of sections 3 and 14. 
13.  Health and safety. 

PART IV 
MISCELLANEOUS 

14.  Penalties. 
14A. Offences to be Congnizable. 
14B. Child and Adolescent Labour Rehabilitation Fund. 
14C. Rehabilitation of rescued child or adolescent. 
14D. Compounding of offences. 
15.  Modified application of certain laws in relation to penalties. 
16.  Procedure relating to offences. 
17.  Appointment of Inspectors. 
17A. District Magistrate to implement the provisions. 
17B. Inspection and monitoring. 
18.  Power to make rules. 
19.  Rules and notifications to be laid before Parliament or State legislature. 
20.  Certain other provisions of law not barred. 
21.  Power to remove difficulties. 
22.  Repeal and savings. 
23 to 26 [Repealed.] 

THE SCHEDULE. 

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THE CHILD AND ADOLESCENT LABOUR (PROHIBITION AND REGULATION) ACT, 
1986 

ACT NO. 61 OF 1986 

[23rd December, 1986.] 
1[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.] 

BE it enacted by Parliament in the Thirty-seventh Year of the Republic of India as follows:— 

PART I 

PRELIMINARY 

1. Short title, extent and commencement.—(1) This Act may be called 2[the Child and Adolescent 

Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986].  

(2) It extends to the whole of India. 

(3) The provisions of this Act, other than Part III, shall come into force at once, and Part III shall come 
into force on such date3 as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint, 
and different dates may be appointed for different States and for different classes of establishments. 

2. Definitions.—In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,— 

4[(ia)]“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; 

5[(i)  “adolescent”  means  a  person  who  has  completed  his  fourteenth  year  of  age  but  has  not 

completed his eighteenth year;] 

6[(ii) “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  (35  of  2009), 
whichever is more;] 

(iii) “day” means a period of twenty-four hours beginning at mid-night; 

(iv) “establishment” includes a shop, commercial establishment, workshop, farm, residential hotel, 

restaurant, eating house, theatre or other place of public amusement or entertainment; 

(v) “family”, in relation to an occupier, means the individual, the wife or husband, as the case may 

be, of such individual, and their children, brother or sister of such individual; 

(vi)  “occupier”,  in  relation  to  an  establishment  or  a  workshop,  means  the  person  who  has  the 

ultimate control over the affairs of the establishment or workshop; 

(vii) “port authority” means any authority administering a port; 

(viii) “prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under section 18; 

(ix) “week” means a period of seven days beginning at midnight on Saturday night or such other 

night as may be approved in writing for a particular area by the Inspector; 

1. Subs. by Act 35 of 2016, s. 2, for the long title (w.e.f. 1-9-2016). 
2. Subs. by s. 4, ibid., for “the Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986 (61 of 1986)” (w.e.f. 1-9-2016). 
3.  26th  May,  1993,  vide  notification  No.  S.O.  333(E),  dated  26th  March,  1993,  see  Gazette  of  India,  Extraordinary,  Part  II,               

sec. 3(ii). 

4. Clause (i) renumbered as clause (ia) thereof by Act 35 of 2016, s. 4 (w.e.f. 1-9-2016). 
5. Ins. by s. 4, ibid. (w.e.f. 1-9-2016). 
6. Subs. by s. 4, ibid., for clause (ii) (w.e.f. 1-9-2016). 

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(x)  “workshop”  means  any  premises  (including  the  precincts  thereof)  wherein  any  industrial 
process is carried on, but does not include any premises to which the provisions of section 67 of the 
Factories Act, 1948 (63 of 1948), for the time being, apply. 

PART II 

PROHIBITION OF EMPLOYMENT OF CHILDREN IN CERTAIN OCCUPATIONS AND PROCESSES 

1[3. Prohibition of employment of children in any occupation and process.—(1) No child shall be 

employed or permitted to work in any occupation or process. 

(2) Nothing in sub-section (1) shall apply where the child,— 

(a)  helps  his  family  or  family  enterprise,  which  is  other  than  any  hazardous  occupations  or 

processes set forth in the Schedule, after his school hours or during vacations; 

(b)  works  as  an  artist in  an  audio-visual  entertainment industry,  including  advertisement, films, 
television serials or any such other entertainment or sports activities except the circus, subject to such 
conditions and safety measures, as may be prescribed: 

Provided that no such work under this clause shall effect the school education of the child. 

Explanation.—For the purposes of this section, the expression, 

(a) “family” in relation to a child, means his mother, father,brother, sister and father’s sister 

and brother and mother’s sister and brother; 

(b)  “family  enterprises”  means  any  work,  profession,  manufacture  or  business  which  is 

performed by the members of the family with the engagement of other persons; 

(c) “artist” means a child who performs or practices any work as a hobby or profession directly 
involving  him  as  an  actor,  singer,  sports  person  or  in  such  other  activity  as  may  be  prescribed 
relating to the entertainment or sports activities falling under clause (b) of                        sub-section 
(2).] 

2[3A.  Prohibition  of  employment  of  adolescents  in  certain  hazardous  occupations  and 
processes.—No adolescent shall be employed or permitted to work in any of the hazardous occupations or 
processes set forth in the Schedule: 

Provided that the Central Government may, by notification, specify the nature of the non-hazardous 

work to which an adolescent may be permitted to work under this Act.] 

4.  Power  to  amend  the  Schedule.—The  Central  Government,  after  giving  by  notification  in  the 
Official Gazette, not less than three months’ notice of its intention so to do, may, by like notification, 3[add 
to, or, omit from,  the Schedule any hazardous occupation or process] and thereupon the Schedule shall be 
deemed to have been amended accordingly. 

5.  4[Technical  Advisory  Committee].—(1)  The  Central  Government  may,  by  notification  in  the 
Official  Gazette,  constitute  an  advisory  committee  to  be  called  the  4[Technical  Advisory  Committee] 
(hereafter in this section referred to as the Committee) to advise the Central Government for the purpose of 
addition of occupations and processes to the Schedule. 

(2) The Committee shall consist of a Chairman and such other members not exceeding ten, as may be 

appointed by the Central Government. 

(3) The Committee shall meet as often as it may consider necessary and shall have power to regulate 

its own procedure. 

1. Subs. by Act 35 of 2016, s. 5, for section 3 (w.e.f. 1-9-2016). 
2. Ins. by s. 6, ibid. (w.e.f. 1-9-2016). 
3. Subs. by s. 7, ibid., for “add any occupation or process to the Schedule” (w.e.f. 1-9-2016). 
4. Subs. by s. 8, ibid., for “Child Labour Technical Advisory Committee” (w.e.f. 1-9-2016). 

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(4) The Committee may, if it deems it necessary so to do, constitute one or more sub-committees and 
may appoint to any such sub-committee, whether generally or for the consideration of any particular matter, 
any person who is not a member of the Committee.  

(5) The term of office of, the manner of filling casual vacancies in the office of, and the allowances, if 
any, payable to, the Chairman and other members of the Committee, and the conditions and restrictions 
subject  to  which  the  Committee  may  appoint  any  person  who  is  not  a  member  of  the  Committee  as  a 
member of any of its sub-committees shall be such as may be prescribed. 

PART III 

REGULATION OF CONDITIONS OF WORK OF 1[ADOLESCENTS] 

6.  Application  of  Part.—The  provisions  of  this  Part  shall  apply  to  an  establishment  or  a  class  of 

establishments in which none of the occupations or processes referred to in 2[section 3A] is carried on. 

7. Hours and period of work.—(1) No  3[adolescent] shall be required or permitted to work in any 
establishment in excess of such number of hours as may be prescribed for such establishment or class of 
establishments. 

(2) The period of work on each day shall be so fixed that no period shall exceed three hours and that 
no 3[adolescent] shall work for more than three hours before he has had an interval for rest for at least one 
hour.  

(3) The period of work of a  3[adolescent] shall be so arranged that inclusive of his interval for rest, 
under sub-section (2), it shall not be spread over more than six hours, including the time spent in waiting 
for work on any day. 

(4) No 3[adolescent] shall be permitted or required to work between 7 p.m. and 8 a.m. 
(5) No 3[adolescent] shall be required or permitted to work overtime. 
(6) No 3[adolescent] shall be required or permitted to work in any establishment on any day on which 

he has already been working in another establishment. 

8.  Weekly  holidays.—Every  4[adolescent]  employed  in  an  establishment  shall  be  allowed  in  each 
week, a holiday of one whole day, which day shall be specified by the occupier in a notice permanently 
exhibited in a conspicuous place in the establishment and the day so specified shall not be altered by the 
occupier more than once in three months. 

9. Notice to Inspector.—(1) Every occupier in relation to an establishment in which a  5[adolescent] 
was employed or permitted to work immediately before the date of commencement of this Act in relation 
to such establishment shall, within a period of thirty days from such commencement, send to the Inspector 
within whose local limits the establishment is situated, a written notice containing the following particulars, 
namely:— 

(a) the name and situation of the establishment;  

(b) the name of the person in actual management of the establishment; 

(c) the address to which communications relating to the establishment should be sent; and 

(d) the nature of the occupation or process carried on in the establishment.  

(2) Every occupier, in relation to an establishment, who employs, or permits to work, any 5[adolescent] 
after the date of commencement of this Act in relation to such establishment, shall, within a period of thirty 
days from the date of such employment, send to the Inspector within whose local limits the establishment 
is situated, a written notice containing the particulars as are mentioned in                    sub-section (1). 

1. Subs. by Act 35 of 2016, s. 9, for “CHILDREN” (w.e.f. 1-9-2016). 
2. Subs. by s. 10, ibid., for “section 3” (w.e.f. 1-9-2016). 
3.  Subs. by s. 11, ibid., for “child” (w.e.f. 1-9-2016). 
4. Subs. by s. 12,  ibid., for “child” (w.e.f. 1-9-2016). 
5. Subs. by s. 13,  ibid., for “child” (w.e.f. 1-9-2016). 

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Explanation.—For the purposes of sub-sections (1) and (2), “date of commencement of this Act, in 
relation  to  an  establishment”  means  the  date  of  bringing  into  force  of  this  Act  in  relation  to  such 
establishment. 

(3) Nothing in sections 7, 8 and 9 shall apply to any establishment wherein any process is carried on by 
the occupier with the aid of his family or to any school established by, or receiving assistance or recognition 
from, Government. 

10. Disputes as to age.—If any question arises between an Inspector and an occupier as to the age of 
any 1[adolescent] who is employed or is permitted to work by him in an establishment, the question shall, 
in the absence of a certificate as to the age of such 1[adolescent] granted by the prescribed medical authority, 
be referred by the Inspector for decision to the prescribed medical authority. 

11. Maintenance of register.—There shall be maintained by every occupier in respect of 2[adolescent] 
employed or permitted to work in any establishment, a register to be available for inspection by an Inspector 
at all times during working hours or when work is being carried on in any such establishment, showing— 

(a) the name and date of birth of every 3[adolescent] so employed or permitted to work; 

(b) hours and periods of work of any such  3[adolescent] and the intervals of rest to which he is 

entitled; 

(c) the nature of work of any such 3[adolescent]; and 

(d) such other particulars as may be prescribed. 

12. Display of notice containing abstract of 4[sections 3A and 14].—Every railway administration, 
every port authority and every occupier shall cause to be displayed in a conspicuous and accessible place 
at every station on its railway or within the limits of a port or at the place of work, as the case may be, a 
notice in the local language and in the English language containing an abstract of 4[sections 3A and 14]. 

13. Health and safety.—(1) The appropriate Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, 
make rules for the health and safety of the 5[adolescent] employed or permitted to work in any establishment 
or class of establishments. 

(2) Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing provisions, the said rules may provide for all 

or any of the following matters, namely:— 

(a) cleanliness in the place of work and its freedom from nuisance; 

(b) disposal of wastes and effluents; 

(c) ventilation and temperature; 

(d) dust and fume; 

(e) artificial humidification; 

(f) lighting; 

(g) drinking water; 

(h) latrine and urinals; 

(i) spittoons; 

(j) fencing of machinery; 

(k) work at or near machinery in motion; 

1. Subs. by Act 35 of 2016, s. 14, for “child” (w.e.f 1-9-2016). 
2. Subs. by s. 15, ibid., for “children” (w.e.f 1-9-2016). 
3. Subs. by s. 15, ibid., for “child” (w.e.f. 1-9-2016). 
4. Subs. by s. 16, ibid., for “section 3 and 14” (w.e.f. 1-9-2016). 
5. Subs. by s. 17, ibid., for “children” (w.e.f. 1-9-2016). 

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(l) employment of 1[adolescent] on dangerous machines; 

(m) instructions, training and supervision in relation to employment of 1[adolescent] on dangerous 

machines; 

(n) device for cutting off power; 

(o) self-acting machines; 

(p) easing of new machinery; 

(q) floor, stairs and means of access; 

(r) pits, sumps, openings in floors, etc.; 

(s) excessive weights; 

(t) protection of eyes; 

(u) explosive or inflammable dust, gas, etc.; 

(v) precautions in case of fire; 

(w) maintenance of buildings; and 

(x) safety of buildings and machinery. 

PART IV 

MISCELLANEOUS 

14. Penalties.—2[(1) Whoever employs any child or permits any child to work in contravention of the 
provisions of section 3 shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than six 
months but which may extend to two years, or with fine which shall not be less than twenty thousand rupees 
but which may extend to fifty thousand rupees, or with both: 

Provided that the parents or guardians of such children shall not be punished unless they permit such 

child for commercial purposes in contravention of the provisions of section 3. 

(1A)  Whoever  employs  any  adolescent  or  permits  any  adolescent  to  work  in  contravention  of  the 
provisions of section 3A shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than six 
months but which may extend to two years or with fine which shall not be less than twenty thousand rupees 
but which may extend to fifty thousand rupees, or with both: 

Provided that the parents or guardians of such adolescent shall not be punished unless they permit such 

adolescent to work in contravention of the provisions of section 3A. 

(1B) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-sections (1) and (1A) the parents or guardians of any 
child or adolescent referred to in section 3 or section 3A, shall not be liable for punishment, in case of the 
first offence.] 

3[(2)  Whoever,  having  been  convicted  of  an  offence  under  section  3  or  section  3A  commits  a  like 
offence afterwards, he shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than one 
year but which may extend to three years. 

(2A)  Notwithstanding  anything  contained  in  sub-section  (2),  the  parents  or  guardian  having  been 
convicted  of  an  offence  under  section  3  or  section  3A,  commits  a  like  offence  afterwards,  he  shall  be 
punishable with a fine which may extend to ten thousand rupees.] 

(3) Whoever— 

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1. Subs. by Act 35 of 2016, s. 17, for “children” (w.e.f. 1-9-2016). 
2. Subs. by s. 18, ibid., for sub-section (1) (w.e.f. 1-9-2016). 
3. Subs. by s. 18, ibid., for sub-section (2) (w.e.f. 1-9-2016). 
4. Clauses (a), (b) and (c) omitted by s. 18, ibid. (w.e.f. 1-9-2016). 

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(d)  fails  to  comply  with  or  contravenes  any  other  provisions  of  this  Act  or  the  rules  made 

thereunder, 

shall be punishable with simple imprisonment which may extend to one month or with fine which may 
extend to ten thousand rupees or with both. 

STATE AMENDMENT 

Gujarat 
Amendment  of  section  14  of  61  of  1986.—  In  the  Child  and  Adolescent  Labour  (Prohibition  and 
Regulation) Act, 1986 (61 of 1986), in its application to the State of Gujarat (hereinafter referred to as 
“the principal Act”), in section 14, - 

(i) 

(ii) 

in sub-section (1), for the words “fifty thousand rupees”, the words “one lakh rupees” shall 
be substituted; 

 in sub-section (1A), for the words “fifty thousand rupees”, the words “one lakh rupees” 
shall be substituted. 

[Vide Gujarat Act 19 of 2021, s. 2] 

1[14A. Offences to be Congnizable.—Notwithstanding anything contained in the Code of Criminal 
Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974), any offence committed by an employer and punishable under section 3 or 
section 3A shall be cognizable.  

14B.Child  and  Adolescent  Labour  Rehabilitation  Fund.—(1)  The  appropriate  Government  shall 
constitute a Fund in every district or for two or more districts to be called the Child and Adolescent Labour 
Rehabilitation Fund to which the amount of the fine realized from the employer of the child and adolescent, 
within the jurisdiction of such district or districts, shall be credited. 

(2) The appropriate Government shall credit an amount of fifteen thousand rupees to the Fund for each 

child or adolescent for whom the fine amount has been credited under sub-section (1).  

(3) The amount credited to the Fund under sub-sections (1) and (2) shall be deposited in such banks or 

invested in such manner, as the appropriate Government may decide. 

(4) The amount deposited or invested, as the case may be under sub-section (3), and the interest accrued 
on it, shall be paid to the child or adolescent in whose favour such amount is credited, in such manner as 
may be prescribed.  

Explanation.—For the purposes of appropriate Government, the Central Government shall include the 

Administrator or the Lieutenant Governor of a Union territory under article 239A of the Constitution.  

14C. Rehabilitation of rescued child or adolescent.—The child or adolescent, who is employed in 
contravention of the provisions of this Act and rescued, shall be rehabilitated in accordance with the laws 
for the time being in force.  

14D. Compounding of offences.—(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Code of Criminal 
Procedure,  1973  (2  of  1974),  the  District  Magistrate  may,  on  the  application  of  the  accused  person, 
compound  any  offence committed  for  the first  time  by  him,  under  sub-section (3)  of  section  14  or  any 
offence committed by an accused person being parent or a guardian, in such manner and on payment of 
such amount to the appropriate Government, as may be prescribed. 

(2) If the accused fails to pay such amount for composition of the offence, then, the proceedings shall 

be continued against such person in accordance with the provisions of this Act. 

(3) Where any offence is compounded before the institution of any prosecution, no prosecution shall 
be  instituted  in  relation  to  such  offence,  against  the  offender  in  relation  to  whom  the  offence  is  so 
compounded. 

(4)  Where  the  composition  of  any  offence  is  made  after  the  institution  of  any  prosecution,  such 
composition shall be brought in writing, to the notice of the Court in which the prosecution is pending and 

1. Ins. by Act 35 of 2016, s. 19 (w.e.f. 1-9-2016). 

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on the approval of the composition of the offence being given, the person against whom the offence is so 
compounded, shall be discharged.] 

Gujarat 

STATE AMENDMENT 

Amendment of section 14D of 61 of 1986.- In the principal Act, in section 14D, in sub-section (1), for the 
words “District Magistrate”, the words “District Magistrate, Municipal Commissioner, Director of Labour 
or, as the case may be, the Regional Commissioner of Municipalities” shall be substituted. 

[Vide Gujarat Act 19 of 2021, s. 3] 

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). 

16. Procedure relating to offences.—(1) Any person, police officer or Inspector may file a complaint 

of the commission of an offence under this Act in any court of competent jurisdiction. 

(2) Every certificate as to the age of a child which has been granted by a prescribed medical authority 

shall, for the purposes of this Act, be conclusive evidence as to the age of the child to whom it relates. 

(3) No court inferior to that of a Metropolitan Magistrate or a Magistrate of the first class shall try any 

offence under this Act. 

17.  Appointment  of  Inspectors.—The  appropriate  Government  may  appoint  Inspectors  for  the 
purposes of securing compliance with the provisions of this Act and any Inspector so appointed shall be 
deemed to be a public servant within the meaning of the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860). 

1[17A. District Magistrate to implement the provisions.—The appropriate Government may confer 
such  powers  and  impose  such  duties  on  a  District  Magistrate  as  may  be  necessary,  to  ensure  that  the 
provisions  of  this  Act  are  properly  carried  out  and  the  District  Magistrate  may  specify  the  officer, 
subordinate to him, who shall exercise all or any of the powers, and perform all or any of the duties, so 
conferred or imposed and the local limits within which such powers or duties shall be carried out by the 
officer as may be prescribed. 

Gujarat 
Amendment of section 17A of 61 of 1986.— In the principal Act, in section 17A, - 

STATE AMENDMENT 

(i)  for the words “District Magistrate”, the words “District Magistrate, Municipal Commissioner, 
Director of Labour or, as the case may be, the Regional Commissioner of Municipalities” 
shall be substituted; 

(ii)  in  the  marginal  note,  for  the  word  “District  Magistrate”,  the  words  “District  Magistrate, 
Municipal Commissioner, Director of Labour or Regional Commissioner of Municipalities” 
shall be substituted. 
[Vide Gujarat Act 19 of 2021, s. 4] 

1. Ins. by Act 35 of 2016, s. 20 (w.e.f. 1-9-2016). 

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17B.  Inspection  and  monitoring.—The  appropriate  Government  shall  make  or  cause  to  be  made 
periodic  inspection  of  the  places  at  which  the  employment  of  children  is  prohibited  and  hazardous 
occupations or processes are carried out at such intervals as it thinks fit, and monitor the issues, relating to 
the provisions of this Act.] 

18.  Power  to  make  rules.—(1)  The  appropriate  Government  may,  by  notification  in  the  Official 
Gazette  and  subject  to  the  condition  of  previous  publication,  make  rules  for  carrying  into  effect  the 
provisions of this Act. 

(2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such rules may provide 

for all or any of the following matters, namely:— 

1[(a) the conditions and the safety measures under clause (b) of sub-section (2) and other activities 

under clause (b) to Explanation of sub-section (2) of section 3;] 

2[(b)] the term of office of, the manner of filling casual vacancies of, and the allowances payable 
to,  the  Chairman  and  members  of  the  3[Technical  Advisory  Committee]  and  the  conditions    and 
restrictions subject to which a non-member may be appointed to a sub-committee under sub-section (5) 
of section 5; 

4[(c)] number of hours for which a 5[adolescent] may be required or permitted to work under sub-

section (1) of section 7; 

6[(d)]  grant  of  certificates  of  age  in  respect  of  young  persons  in  employment  or  seeking 
employment, the medical authorities which may issue such certificate, the form of such certificate, the 
charges which may be made thereunder and the manner in which such certificate may be issued: 

Provided that  no  charge  shall  be  made for  the  issue  of  any  such  certificate  if the  application  is 

accompanied by evidence of age deemed satisfactory by the authority concerned; 

7[(e)] the other particulars which a register maintained under section 11 should contain. 

8[(f) the manner of payment of amount to the child or adolescent under sub-section (4) of section 

14B; 

(g)  the  manner  of  composition  of  the  offence  and  payment  of  amount  to  the  appropriate 

Government under sub-section (1) of section 14D; 

(h) the powers to be exercised and the duties to be performed by the officer specified and the local 

limits within which such powers or duties shall be carried out under section 17A.] 

19. Rules and notifications to be laid before Parliament or State legislature.—(1) Every rule made 
under this Act by the Central Government and every notification issued under section 4, shall be laid, as 
soon as may be after it is made or issued, before each House of Parliament, while it is in session for a total 
period of thirty days which may be comprised in one session or in two or more successive sessions, and if, 
before the expiry of the session immediately following the session or the successive sessions aforesaid, 
both Houses agree in making any modification in the rule or notification or both Houses agree that the rule 
or notification should not be made or issued, the rule or notification shall thereafter have effect only in such 

1. Ins. by Act 35 of 2016, s. 21 (w.e.f. 1-9-2016). 
2. Clause (a) relettered as clause (b) thereof by s. 21, ibid. (w.e.f 1-9-2016). 
3. Subs. by s. 21, ibid., for “Child Labour Technical Advisory Committee” (w.e.f. 1-9-2016). 
4. Clause (b) relettered as clause (c) thereof by s. 21, ibid. (w.e.f. 1-9-2016). 
5. Subs. by s. 21, ibid., for “child” (w.e.f. 1-9-2016). 
6. Clause (c) relettered as clause (d) thereof by s. 21, ibid. (w.e.f. 1-9-2016). 
7. Clause (d) relettered as clause (e) thereof by s. 21, ibid. (w.e.f. 1-9-2016). 
8. Ins. by Act 35 of 2016, s. 21 (w.e.f. 1-9-2016). 

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modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be; so, however, that any such modification or annulment 
shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that rule or notification. 

(2) Every rule made by a State Government under this Act shall be laid as soon as may be after it is 

made, before the legislature of that State. 

20. Certain other provisions of law not barred.—Subject to the provisions contained in section 15, 
the provisions of this Act and the rules made thereunder shall be in addition to, and not in derogation of, 
the provisions of the Factories Act, 1948 (63 of 1948), the Plantations Labour Act, 1951 (69 of 1951) and 
the Mines Act, 1952 (35 of 1952). 

21. Power to remove difficulties.—(1) If any difficulty arises in giving effect to the provisions of this 
Act, the Central Government may, by order published in the Official Gazette, make such provisions not 
inconsistent with the provisions of this Act as appear to it to be necessary or expedient for removal of the 
difficulty: 

Provided that no such order shall be made after the expiry of a period of three years from the date on 

which this Act receives the assent of the President. 

(2) Every order made under this section shall, as soon as may be after it is made, be laid before the 

Houses of Parliament. 

22. Repeal and savings.—(1) The Employment of Children Act, 1938 (26 of 1938) is hereby repealed. 

(2) Notwithstanding such repeal, anything done or any action taken or purported to have been done or 
taken under the Act so repealed shall, in so far as it is not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, be 
deemed to have been done or taken under the corresponding provisions of this Act. 

[Sections 23 to 26.]—Rep. by the Repealing and Amending Act, 2001 (30 of 2001), s. 2 and the First 

Schedule (w.e.f. 3-9-2001). 

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1[THE SCHEDULE 

(See section 3A) 

(1) Mines. 

(2) Inflammable substances or explosives. 

(3) Hazardous process. 

Explanation.—For the purposes of this Schedule, “hazardous process” has the meaning assigned to it 

in clause (cb) of the Factories Act, 1948 (63 of 1948)]. 

1. Subs. b y Act 35 of 2016, s. 22, for the Schedule (w.e.f. 1-9-2016). 

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