The Child Labour Act aims to
(i) Ban the employment of children i.e. those who have not completed their fourteenth year in specified occupations and processes
(ii) Lay down procedures to decide modifications to the Schedule of banned occupations or processes
(iii) regulate the conditions of work of children in employments where they are not prohibited from working
(iv) Lay down enhanced penalties for employment of children in employments where they are not prohibited from working
(v) to obtain uniformity in the definition of child in the related laws
Applicability
The Child Labour Act extends to the whole of India.
The Act applies to all establishments and workshops wherein any industrial process is carried on, but does not apply to any factories to which Section 67 (Employment of Child Labour) of the Factories Act, 1948 applies.
