Child Labour Act
(See Section 3)
Part A
Occupations
Any occupation connected with—
(1) Transport of passengers, goods or mails by railway;
(2) Cinder picking, clearing of an ash pit or building operation in the railway premises;
(3) Work in a catering establishment at a railway station, involving the movement of a vendor or any other employee of the establishment from one platform to another or into or out of a moving train;
(4) Work relating to the construction of a railway station or with any other work where such work is done in close proximity to or between the railway lines;
(5) A port authority within the limits of any port;
(6) Work relating to selling of crackers and fireworks in shops with temporary licences;
(7) Abattoirs / Slaughter Houses;
(8) Automobile workshops and garages;
(9) Foundries;
(10) Handling of toxic or inflammable substances or explosives;
(11) Handloom and power loom industry;
(12) Mines (underground and under water) and collieries;
(13) Plastic units and fibreglass workshops.
Part B
Processes
(1) Bidi-making.
(2) Carpet weaving including preparatory and incidental process thereof.
(3) Cement manufacture, including bagging of cement.
(4) Cloth printing, dyeing and weaving including processes preparatory and incidental thereto.
(5) Manufacture or matches, explosives and fireworks.
(6) Mica-cutting and splitting.
(7) Shellac manufacture.
(8) Soap manufacture.
(9) Tanning.
(10) Wool-cleaning.
(11) Building and construction industry.
(12) Manufacture of slate pencils (including packing).
(13) Manufacture of products from agate.
(14) Manufacturing processes using toxic metals and substances such as lead, mercury, manganese, chromium, benzene, pesticides and asbestos.
(15) “hazardous processes” as defined in Section 2(cb) and ‘dangerous operations’ as notified in rules made under Section 87 of the Factories Act, 1948 (63 of 1948).
(16) Printing as defined in Section 2(k)(iv) of the Factories Act, 1948 (63 of 1948).
(17) Cashew and Cashewnut descaling and processing.
(18) Soldering processes in electronic industries.
(19) ‘Aggarbatti’ manufacturing.
(20) Automobile repairs and maintenance including processes incidental thereto namely welding, lathe work, dent beating and painting.
(21) Brick Kilns and Roof tiles units.
(22) Cotton ginning and processing and production of hosiery goods.
(23) Detergent manufacturing.
(24) Fabrication workshops (ferrous and non ferrous).
(25) Gem cutting and polishing.
(26) Handling of chromite and manganese ores.
(27) Jute textile manufacture and coir making.
(28) Lime Kilns and Manufacture of Lime.
(29) Lock making.
(30) Manufacturing processes having exposure to lead such as primary and secondary smelting, welding and cutting of lead-painted metal constructions, welding of galvanized or zinc silicate, polyvinyl chloride, mixing (by hand) of crystal glass mass, sanding or scrapping of lead paint, buring of lead in enamelling workshops, lead mining, plumbing, cable making, wire patenting, lead casting, type founding in printing shops. Store type setting, assembling of cars, shot making and lead glass blowing.
(31) Manufacture of cement pipes, cement products and other related work.
(32) Manufacturing of glass, glass ware including bangles, florescent tubes, bulbs and other similar glass products.
(33) Manufacture of dyes and dye stuff.
(34) Manufacturing or handling of pesticides and insecticides.
(35) Manufacturing or processing and handling of corrosive and toxic sub-stances, metal cleaning and photo engraving and soldering processes in electronic industry.
(36) Manufacturing of burning coal and coal briquettes.
(37) Manufacturing of sports goods involving exposure to synthetic materials, chemicals and leather.
(38) Moulding and processing of fibreglass and plastic.
(39) Oil expelling and refinery.
(40) Paper making.
(41)
(42) Polishing, moulding, cutting, welding and manufacture of brass goods in all forms.
(43) Processes in agriculture where tractors, threshing and harvesting machines are used and chaff cutting.
(44) Saw mill-all processes.
(45) Sericulture processing.
(46) Skinning, dying and processes for manufacturing of leather and leather products.
(47) Stone breaking and stone crushing.
(48) Tobacco processing including manufacturing of tobacco, tobacco paste and handling of tobacco in any form.
(49)
(50) Utensils making, polishing and metal buffing.
(51) ‘Zari’ making (all processes).
(52) Electroplating
(53) Graphite Powdering and Incidental Processing
(54) Grinding or glazing of metals
(55) Diamond Cutting and polishing
(56) Extraction of slate from mines
(57) Rag Picking and Scavenging