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| (1) Regulations may be made with respect to the employment of children, and any such regulations may distinguish between children of different ages and sexes and between different localities, trades, occupations and circumstances, and may contain provisions-
| | (a) authorizing-
| | | (i) the employment of children by their parents or guardians in light agricultural or horticultural work, or |
| (ii) the employment of children for not more than one hour before the commencement of school hours on any day on which they are required to attend school, notwithstanding anything in paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of section 13, or |
| (iii) the employment of children in any school or other institution supervised by public authority and imparting any technical education or any other training for the purposes of any trade or occupation, or in any dramatic performance, notwithstanding anything in paragraphs (a), (b), (c) and (d) of subsection (1) of section 13; |
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| | (b) prohibiting absolutely the employment of children in any specified occupation; and | | |
| | (c) prescribing-
| | | (i) the age below which children are not to be employed, |
| (ii) the number of hours in each day, or in each week, for which, and the times of day at which, they may be employed, |
| (iii) the intervals to be allowed to them for meals and rest, |
| (iv) the holidays or half-holidays to be allowed to them, and |
| (v) any other conditions to be observed in relation to their employment; |
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| (2) Nothing in paragraph (b) or paragraph (c) of subsection (1) of section 13 or in any regulation made under this section shall prevent a child from taking part without fee or reward in an entertainment the net proceeds of which are devoted to any charitable or educational purpose or to any purpose other than the private profit of the promoters. |
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| (3) If a child is employed in contravention of any regulation made under 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 57 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