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| (1) Subject to any regulations made under section 14, no child shall be employed-
| | (a) before the close of school hours on any day on which he is required to attend school, or | | |
| | (b) at any time between 8 p.m. and 6 a.m., or | | |
| | (c) for more than two hours on any day on which he is required to attend school, or | | |
| | (d) for more than two hours on any Sunday, or | | |
| | (e) to lift, carry or move anything so heavy as to be likely to cause injury to him, or | | |
| | (f) in any occupation likely to be injurious to his life, limb, health, or education, regard being had to his physical condition. | | |
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| (2) No child shall engage or be employed in street trading. |
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| (3) If a child is employed in contravention of any of the preceding provisions of this section, the employer and any person (other than the child employed) to whose act or default the contravention is attributable shall be guilty of an offence and shall,, on conviction after summary trial before a Magistrate, be liable to a fine not exceeding one thousand rupees or imprisonment of either description for a period not exceeding six months or both such fine and such imprisonment. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts