Merchant Shipping Act : Employment of children. Indian Bare Acts :

Merchant Shipping Act,1958

Act No : 44

Section : Employment of children.

109. Employment of children. No person under 1*[fourteen] years of age shall be engaged or carried to sea to work in any capacity in any ship, except-- (a) in a school ship, or training ship, in accordance with the prescribed conditions ; or (b) in a ship in which all persons employed are members of one family ; or (c) in a home-trade ship of less than two hundred tons gross ; or (d) where such person is to be employed on nominal wages and will be in the charge of his father or other adult near male relative.