Career Advice

PART VII – EMPLOYMENT OF YOUNG PERSONS

Prohibition of employment of young persons in hazardous work

• A young person shall not be engaged in any type of employment or work likely to expose the person to physical or moral hazard.
• the Minister may, by legislative instrument, determine the type of employment that is likely to expose a young person to physical or moral hazard.
• An employer shall not employ a young person in an underground mine work.
• A person who contravenes subsection (1) or (3) commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding 100 penalty units.

Health of young persons
An employer shall not employ a young person on any work unless a medial practitioner has certified that the young person is in good health and is medically fit for the work.

 Where a  person fails to comply with subsection (1) the person shall be ordered by the Minister to have the medical examination conducted.

Registration of young persons
An employer in an industrial undertaking shall keep a register of young persons employed by him or her and their dates of birth or their apparent ages

The Chief Labour Officer shall direct an employer who fails to comply with subsection (1) to do so within a specified time, and the employer shall comply with the direction.

Interpretation
In this Part, “industrial undertakings” include

• mines, quarries and other works for the extraction of minerals from the earth;
• undertakings in which articles are manufactured, altered, cleaned, repaired, ornamented, finished, adapted for sale, broken up or demolished, or in which materials are transformed, including undertakings engaged in shipbuilding or in the generation, transformation or transmission of electricity or motive power of any kind;
• undertakings engaged in building and civil engineering work, including constructional, repair, maintenance, alteration and demolition work.