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| (1) Where a person who has attained the age of sixteen years but is under the age of eighteen years is employed during the night for purposes of apprenticeship or vocational training in an industrial undertaking by virtue of an authorization under subsection (3) of section 3, his employer in that undertaking shall grant him a rest period of at least thirteen consecutive hours between two working periods. |
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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