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| | (b) having received notice of any prohibition or restriction as to the employment of a child issued under section 15, shall employ that child in such a manner as to contravene that prohibition or restriction. | | |
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| (2) A person who contravenes subsection (1) of this section 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