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Employment Of Women, Young Persons, And Children Act (No. 47 of 1956) - Sect 18

Restrictions on children taking part in entertainments

18.
(1) A child shall not take part in any entertainment in connexion with which any charge, whether for admission or for any other purpose, is made to any of the audience.
(2) Every person who causes or procures a child, or being his parent or guardian allows him, to take part in an entertainment in contravention of subsection (1) of this section, 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.
(3) The preceding provisions of this section shall have no application to the case of a child who takes part, without fee or reward, in an entertainment the net proceeds of which are devoted to any charitable or educational purpose or to any purpose other than the private profit of the promoters or which is presented by the pupils of any school supervised by public authority or by any amateur dramatic society, or in any other performance which forms part of any training undertaken by any school to be given to its pupils.


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