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| (1) Subject to the provisions of subsection (2) of this section, no person shall employ a child in a public or private industrial undertaking or in a branch thereof. |
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| (2) The provisions of subsection (1) of this section shall not apply-
| | (a) to an industrial undertaking in which only members of the same family are employed, and | | |
| | (b) to work done by children in technical schools if such work is approved and supervised by public authority. | | |
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| (3) If a child is employed in contravention of subsection (1) 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