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CHILD LABOUR (PROHIBITION AND REGULATION) ACT

1986

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Apprentices Act , 1961 Apprenticeship Rules , 1992 Boilers Act , 1923 Building Contruction Workers Act , 1996 Building Contruction Workers Cess Act , 1996 Building Contruction Workers Cess Rules , 1998 Child Labour Act , 1986 Code on Wages Act , 2019 Contract Labour Act , 1970 Dangerous Machines Act , 1983 Dangerous Machines Rules , 1984 EDLIS Scheme , 1976 Employees Compensation Act , 1923 Employees Pension Scheme , 1995 Employees Provident Fund Scheme , 1952 Employers Liability Act , 1938 Employment Exchanges Act , 1959 Employment Exchanges Rules , 1960 Equal Remuneration Act , 1976 Equal Remuneration Rules , 1976 ESI (Central) Rules , 1950 ESI (General Provident Fund) Rules , 1950 ESI (General) Regulations , 1950 ESI Act , 1948 Exemptions From Registers and Returns Act , 1988 Factories Act , 1948 Fatal Accidents Act , 1855 Gratuity Act , 1972 ID (Banking and Insurance Companies) Act , 1949 Industrial Disputes Act , 1947 Industrial Relations Code , 2020 Industrial Relations Code , 2020 Inter-State Migrant Workmen Act , 1979 Manipur Minimum Wage Rules , 1961 Maternity Benefit Act , 1961 Mines Act , 1952 Minimum Wages Act , 1948 Motor Transport Workers Act , 1961 Occupational Safety and Working Conditions Code , 2020 Payment of Bonus (Amendment) Act , 1995 Payment of Bonus Act , 1965 Payment of Bonus Rules , 1975 Payment of Wages (Air Transport Services) Rules , 1968 Payment of Wages Act , 1936 Payment of Wages Nomination Rules , 2009 Payment of Wages Recovery Rules , 1966 PF Act , 1952 Plantations Labour Act , 1951 Prevention of Food Adulteration Rules , 1955 Prevention of Sexual Harassment Act , 2013 Prevention of Sexual Harassment of Women Rules , 2013 PSARA , 2005 PSARA Rules , 2020 Sales Promotion Employees Act , 1976 Sales Promotion Employees Rules , 1976 Social Security Code , 2020 Standing Orders Act , 1946 Trade Unions Act , 1926 Transgender Persons Act , 2019 Unorganised Workers Social Security Act , 2008 Unorganised Workers Social Security Rules , 2009 Weekly Holidays Act , 1942 Working Journalists Act , 1955 Working Journalists Rates of Wages Act , 1958 Working Journalists Rules , 1957
Related Legislation: - Child Labour(Prohibition and Regulation)(Assam) Rules, 1991 , 1991 - Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Rules , 1988 - Himachal Pradesh Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Rules , 1999

About The Act

Objectives
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.
Related Sections of the Act
Section 1 :  Short title, extent and commencement Section 1 :  Short title, extent and commencement Section 3 :  Prohibition of employment of children in certain occupations and processes Section 3 :  Prohibition of employment of children in certain occupations and processes Section 20 :  Certain other provisions of law not barred Section 20 :  Certain other provisions of law not barred
Important Definitions
2(1) – Appropriate Government
2(1) – Appropriate Government
2(2) – Child
2(2) – Child
2(4) – Establishmenth
2(4) – Establishmenth
2(6) – Occupier
2(6) – Occupier
2(10) – Workshop
2(10) – Workshop
Related Schedules
Schedule under Section 3 — Section 3: Schedule listing occupations where child labour is prohibited
Schedule under Section 3 — Section 3: Schedule listing occupations where child labour is prohibited
Related Notifications
S.O. 757(E) – Application of the Act  (03-Aug-1987)
S.O. 757(E) – Application of the Act  (03-Aug-1987)
S.O. 757(E) – Application of the Act  (03-Aug-1987)
S.O. 757(E) – Application of the Act  (03-Aug-1987)
S.O. 27(E) – Application of the Act  (30-Dec-1991)
S.O. 27(E) – Application of the Act  (30-Dec-1991)
S.O. 27(E) – Application of the Act  (30-Dec-1991)
S.O. 27(E) – Application of the Act  (30-Dec-1991)
S.O. 333(E) – Application of the Act  (26-May-1993)
S.O. 333(E) – Application of the Act  (26-May-1993)
S.O. 333(E) – Application of the Act  (26-May-1993)
S.O. 333(E) – Application of the Act  (26-May-1993)