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EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN, YOUNG PERSONS, AND CHILDREN ACT 1920 - SECT 5

Short title.

5.(1) This Act may be cited as the
Employment of Women, Young Persons, and Children Act, 1920.

Subs.(2) rep. by SLR 1927For the purpose of this Convention, the term
"industrial undertaking" includes particularly:

(a)Mines, quarries and other works for the extraction of minerals from the
earth.

(b)Industries in which articles are manufactured, altered, cleaned, repaired,
ornamented, finished, adapted for sale, broken up or demolished, or in which
materials are transformed; including ship-building, and the generation,
transformation, and transmission of electricity and motive power of any kind.

(c)Construction, reconstruction, maintenance, repair, alteration, or
demolition of any building, railway, tramway, harbour, dock, pier, canal,
inland waterway, road, tunnel, bridge, viaduct, sewer, drain, well,
telegraphic or telephonic installation, electrical undertaking, gaswork,
waterwork, or other work of construction, as well as the preparation for or
laying the foundations of any such work or structure.

(d)Transport of passengers or goods by road or rail or inland waterway,
including the handling of goods at docks, quays, wharves, and warehouses, but
excluding transport by hand.

The competent authority in each country shall define the line of division
which separates industry from commerce and agriculture.

Children under the age of fourteen years shall not be employed or work in any
public or private industrial undertaking, or in any branch thereof, other than
an undertaking in which only members of the same family are employed.

The provisions of Article 2 shall not apply to work done by children in
technical schools, provided that such work is approved and supervised by
public authority.

In order to facilitate the enforcement of the provisions of this Convention,
every employer in an industrial undertaking shall be required to keep a
register of all persons under the age of sixteen years employed by him, and of
the dates of their births.

For the purpose of this Convention, the term "industrial undertaking" includes
particularly:

(a)Mines, quarries, and other works for the extraction of minerals from the
earth:

(b)Industries in which articles are manufactured, altered, cleaned, repaired,
ornamented, finished, adapted for sale, broken up, or demolished, or in which
materials are transformed; including ship-building, and the generation,
transformation, and transmission of electricity or motive power of any kind:

(c)Construction, reconstruction, maintenance, repair, alteration, or
demolition of any building, railway, tramway, harbour, dock, pier, canal,
inland waterway, road, tunnel, bridge, viaduct, sewer, drain, well,
telegraphic or telephonic installation, electrical undertaking, gaswork,
waterwork, or other work of construction as well as the preparation for or
laying the foundations of any such work or structure:

(d)Transport of passengers or goods by road or rail, including the handling of
goods at docks, quays, wharves, and warehouses, but excluding transport by
hand.

The competent authority in each country shall define the line of division
which separates industry from commerce and agriculture.

Young persons under eighteen years of age shall not be employed during the
night in any public or private industrial undertaking, or in any branch
thereof, other than an undertaking in which only members of the same family
are employed, except as hereinafter provided for.

Young persons over the age of sixteen may be employed during the night in the
following industrial undertakings on work which by reason of the nature of the
process, is required to be carried on continuously day and night:

(a)Manufacture of iron and steel; process in which reverberatory or
regenerative furnaces are used, and galvanizing of sheet metal or wire (except
the pickling process).

(b)Glass works.

(c)Manufacture of paper.

(d)Manufacture of raw sugar.

(e)Gold mining reduction work.

For the purpose of this Convention, the term "night" signifies a period of at
least eleven consecutive hours, including the interval between ten o'clock in
the evening and five o'clock in the morning.

In coal and lignite mines work may be carried on in the interval between ten
o'clock in the evening and five o'clock in the morning, if an interval of
ordinarily fifteen hours, and in no case of less than thirteen hours,
separates two periods of work.

Where night work in the baking industry is prohibited for all workers, the
interval between nine o'clock in the evening and four o'clock in the morning
may be substituted in the baking industry for the interval between ten o'clock
in the evening and five o'clock in the morning.

The provisions of Articles 2 and 3 shall not apply to the night work of
young persons between the ages of sixteen and eighteen years in cases of
emergencies which could not have been controlled or foreseen, which are not of
a periodical character, and which interfere with the normal working of the
industrial undertaking.

The prohibition of night work may be suspended by the Government, for
young persons between the ages of sixteen and eighteen years, when in case of
serious emergency the public interest demands it.

Part III rep. by SL(R) 1978

For the purpose of this Convention, the term "vessel" includes all ships and
boats, of any nature whatsoever, engaged in maritime navigation, whether
publicly or privately owned: it excludes ships of war.

Children under the age of fourteen years shall not be employed or work on
vessels other than vessels upon which only members of the same family are
employed.

The provisions of Article 2 shall not apply to work done by children on school
ships or training ships, provided that such work is approved and supervised by
public authority.

In order to facilitate the enforcement of the provisions of this Convention,
every shipmaster shall be required to keep a register of all persons under the
age of sixteen years employed on board his vessel, or a list of them in the
articles of agreement, and of the dates of their births.]

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