Malaysia legislation
Section 2
Section 2
(1a)
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.
*NOTE—The Education Act 1961 [Act 43 of 1961] has since been repealed by the Education Act 1996 [Act 550]–see section 155 of Act 550.
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(1b)
Notwithstanding subsection (1a), 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.
(2)
A child may be engaged in any of the following employments:
(a)
employment involving light work suitable to his capacity in any undertaking carried on by his family;
(b)
employment in any public entertainment, in accordance with the terms and conditions of a licence granted in that behalf under this Act;
(c)
employment requiring him to perform work approved or sponsored by the Federal Government or the Government of any State and carried on in any school, training institution or training vessel; and
(d)
employment as an apprentice under a written apprenticeship contract approved by the Director General with whom a copy of such contract has been filed.
(2a)
The age of admission to light work as specified in paragraph (2)(a) shall not be less than thirteen years.
(2b)
Notwithstanding subsections (2) and (3), no child or young person shall be, or be required or permitted to be, engaged in any employment specified in the Fifth Schedule.
(3)
A young person may be engaged in any of the following employments:
(a)
any employment mentioned in subsection (2); and in relation to paragraph (a) of that subsection any employment suitable to his capacity (whether or not the undertaking is carried on by his family);
Children and Young Persons (Employment)
(b)
(Deleted by Act A1586);
(c)
employment in any office, shop (including hotels, restaurants and stalls), godown, factory, workshop, store, boarding house, theatre, cinema or association;
(d)
employment in an industrial undertaking suitable to his capacity; and
(e)
employment on any vessel under the personal charge of his parent or guardian.
(4)
The Minister may, if he is satisfied that any employment (not mentioned in subsection (2) or subsection (3)) is not dangerous to life, limb, health, safety or morals, by order declare such employment to be an employment in which a child or young person may be, or permitted to be, engaged; and the Minister may in such order impose such conditions as he deems fit and he may at any time revoke or vary the order or may withdraw or alter such conditions.
(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 Factories and Machinery Act 1967 [Act 139], the Occupational Safety and Health Act 1994 [Act 514] or the
Electricity Supply Act 1990 [Act 447].
(6)
(Deleted by Act A1586).
The Minister may prohibit any child or young person from engaging or being engaged in any employment