Page:Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act (India) 1986.djvu/3

 Sec. 1] thereupon the Schedule shall be deemed to have been amended accordingly.

5. (1) The Central Government may, by notification in the Official Child Gazette, constitute an advisory committee to be called the Child Labour Labour Committee (hereafter in this section referred to as the Committee) to advise the Central Government for the purpose of addition of occupations and processes to the Schedule.

(2) The Committee shall consist of a Chairman and such other members not exceeding ten, as may be appointed by the Central Government.

(3) The Committee shall meet as often as it may consider necessary and shall have power to regulate Its own procedure.

(4) The Committee may, if it deems it necessary so to do, constitute one or more sub-committees and may appoint to any such sub-committee, Whether generally or for the consideration of any particular matter, any person who Is not a member of the Committee.

(5) The term of office of, the manner of filling casual vacancies in the office of, and the allowances, if any payable to. the Chairman and other members of the Committee, and the conditions and restrictions subject to which the Committee may appoint any person who is not a member of the Committee as a member of any of its sub-committees shall be such as may be prescribed.

6. The provisions of this Part shall apply to an establishment or a class of establishments in which none of the occupations or processes referred to in section 3 is carried on.

7. (1) No child shall be required or permitted to work in any establishment in excess of such number of hours as may be prescrbed for such establishment or class of establishments.

(2) The period of work on each day shall be so fixed that no period shall exceed three hours and that no child shall work for more than three hours before he has had an interval for rest for at least one hour.

(3) The period of work of a child shall be so arranged that inclusive of his interval for rest, under sub-section (2), it shall not be spread over more than six hours, including the time spent in waiting for work on any day.

(4) No child shall be permitted or required to work between 7 p.m. and 8 a.m.

(5) No child shall be required or permitted to work overtime.

(6) No child shall be required or permitted to work in any establishment on any day on which he has already been working in another establishment.

8. Every child employed in an establishment shall be allowed in each Weekly week, a holiday of one whole day, which day shall be specified by the holidays, occupier in a notice permanently exhibited in a conspicuous place in the