Malaysia legislation
Section 19
Section 19
Section 73 of the Ordinance is amended—
(a)
by substituting for subsection (1) the following subsection:
“(1) No child or young person shall be, or be required or permitted to be, engaged in any hazardous work, or any employment other than those specified in this section.”;
(b)
by inserting after subsection (1) the following subsection:
“(1a) Notwithstanding subsection (1), a young person may be engaged in any hazardous work with personal supervision if he is—
(a)
under an apprenticeship contract; or
(b)
undergoing a vocational training.”;
(c)
in subsection (3)—
(i)
by deleting paragraph (b);
(ii)
in paragraph (c)—
(A)
by deleting the words “bars,”; and
(B)
by deleting the words “, club”;
(iii)
in paragraph (e), by substituting for the colon at the end of the paragraph a full stop; and
(iv)
by deleting the provisos;
(d)
by substituting for subsection (5) the following subsection:
“(5) No child or young person shall be, or be required or permitted to be, engaged in any employment contrary to the provisions of the Occupational
Safety and Health Act 1994 [Act 514] or the Electricity Ordinance Sarawak [Sarawak Cap. 50].”;
and
(e)
by inserting after subsection (5) the following subsections:
“(6) Notwithstanding subsections (2) and (3), no child or young person shall be, required or permitted to be, engaged in any employment specified in the
Second Schedule.
(7)
For the purposes of this section, “hazardous work” means work specified in the Third Schedule.”.
Amendment of section 74c