Malaysia legislation
Section 17
Section 17
Section 72 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 paragraph (2)(d), by inserting after the words
“a written apprenticeship contract” the words
“approved by the Director with whom a copy of such contract has been filed”;
(d)
by inserting after subsection (2) the following subsection:
“(2a) The age of admission to light work as specified in paragraph (a) of subsection (2) shall not be less than thirteen years.”;
(e)
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;
(f)
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 Electricity Supply
Act 1990 [Act 447] or the Occupational Safety and
Health Act 1994 [Act 514].”; and
(g)
by inserting after subsection (5) the following subsections:
“(6) 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 Second Schedule.
(7)
For the purposes of this section, “hazardous work”
means work specified in the Third Schedule.”.
Amendment of section 73b