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PART VIII
EMPLOYMENT OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS
67A. In this Part —
“child” means a person who has not completed his 15th year of age;
“young person” means a person who has completed his 15th year of age but who has not completed his 16th year of age.
[41/2004]
68.
—(1) No person shall employ a child in an industrial or a non-industrial undertaking except as provided for in subsections (2) and (3).
[36/95]
(2) A child may be employed in an industrial undertaking in which only members of the same family are employed.
[36/95]
(3) A child who is 13 years of age or above may be employed in light work suited to his capacity in a non-industrial undertaking.
[36/95; 41/2004]
(4) For the purposes of subsection (3), the certificate of a medical officer shall be conclusive upon the question of whether any work is suited to the capacity of any particular child.
[36/95]
69. No young person shall be employed in any industrial undertaking which the Minister by notification in the Gazette declares to be an industrial undertaking in which no young person shall be employed.
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70. The Minister may by regulations made under this Act prescribe the conditions upon which a child or young person may be employed in any industrial or non-industrial undertaking.
71.
—(1) If it is shown to the satisfaction of the Minister, upon the application of the Commissioner and after such inquiry as the Minister may think fit to direct, that the salaries of children or young persons, or both, employed in any industry or for any particular work or in any area are insufficient, having regard to the nature of the work and the conditions of employment, it shall be lawful for the Minister to prescribe, by order to be published in the Gazette, minimum rates of salary to be paid to children or young persons or both in that industry, type of employment or area.
(2) Any person contravening any such order shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $5,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or to both, and for a second or subsequent offence to a fine not exceeding $10,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years or to both.
[32/2008]
72.
—(1) Sections 68 and 69 shall not apply —
(a)
to the employment of children and young persons —
(i)
in work approved and supervised by the Ministry of Education or the Institute of Technical Education, Singapore; and
(ii)
carried on in any technical, vocational or industrial training school or institute; and
(b)
to the employment of young persons under any apprenticeship programme approved and supervised by the Institute of Technical Education, Singapore.
[36/95]
(2) For the purposes of this section, the Institute of Technical Education, Singapore means the Institute of Technical Education, Singapore established under the Institute of Technical Education Act (Cap. 141A).
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73. The Minister may make regulations for regulating the employment of children in any occupation and no child or young person shall be employed as a workman under any circumstances or under any conditions which may be prohibited by the Minister from time to time by regulations made under this Act.
74. Any person who employs a child or young person in contravention of the provisions of this Part or any of the regulations made thereunder and any parent or guardian who knowingly or negligently suffers or permits such employment shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $5,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years or to both except in the case where a child or young person suffers serious injury or death resulting from any breach of the provisions of this Part or any regulations made thereunder the offender shall be punished with a fine of $5,000 and shall also be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years.
[32/2008]
75. A child or young person in respect of whom any of the offences mentioned in this Part has been committed may be brought before a Juvenile Court and the Court, if satisfied that the child or young person requires care or protection, may exercise with respect to that child or young person all or any of the powers conferred by section 49 of the Children and Young Persons Act (Cap. 38).