Section 21: Repeal and Savings

21. Repeal and Savings. ___ (1) The Employment of Children Act, 1938, is hereby repealed. (2) Notwithstanding such repeal, anything done or any action taken or purported to have done or taken under the Act so repealed shall, in so far as it is not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, be deemed to have been done or taken under the corresponding provisions of this Act. 1 [THE SCHEDULE [See section 3] PART I OCCUPATIONS Any occupation connected with:__ (1) Transport of passengers, goods or mail; (2) Work in a catering establishment at a railway station, involving the movement of a vendor or any other employee of the establishment from one platform to another or into or out of a moving train; (3) Work relating to the construction of a railway station or with any other work where such work is done in close proximity to or between the railway lines; and (4) a port authority within the limits of any port. PART II PROCESSES (1) Work inside underground mines and above ground quarries including blasting and assisting in blasting. (2) Work with power driven cutting machinery like saws, shears, guillotines and agricultural machines, thrashers, fodder cutting machines. (3) Work with live electrical wires over 50 volts. (4) All operations related to leather tanning process e.g., soaking, dehairing, liming chrome tanning, deliming, pickling, defleshing, ink application. (5) Mixing and manufacture of pesticides and insecticides; and fumigation. (6) Sandblasting and other work involving exposure to free silica. (7) Work with exposure to all toxic, explosive and carcinogenic chemicals e.g., asbestos, benzene, ammonia, chlorine, manganese, cadmium, Sulphur dioxide, hydrogen sulphide, sulphuric acid, hydrochloric acid, nitric acid, caustic soda, phosphorus, benzidene dyes, isocyanates, carbon tetrachloride, carbon disulphide, epoxy resins, formaldehyde, metal fumes, heavy metals like nickel, mercury chromium, lead, arsenic, beryllium, fiber glass. (8) Work with exposure to cement dust in cement industry. (9) Work with exposure to coal dust. 1Subs. by S.R.O. 1280 (I)/05, dated 20-12-2005 (10) Manufacture and sale of fireworks and explosives. (11) Work at the sites where liquid petroleum gas (LPG) and compressed natural gas (CNG) is filled in cylinders. (12) Work on glass and metal furnaces; and glass bangles manufacturing. (13) Work in the cloth weaving, printing, dyeing and finishing sections. (14) Work inside sewer pipelines, pits and storage tanks. (15) Stone crushing. (16) Lifting and carrying of heavy weight (15 Kg and above) specially in transport industry. (17) Carpet weaving. (18) Working two meters or more above the floor. (19) All scavenging including hospital waste. (20) Tobacco processing and manufacturing including niswar and bidi making. (21) Deep-sea fishing, commercial fishing and processing of fish and seafood. (22) Sheep casing and wool industry. (23) Ship breaking. (24) Surgical instruments manufacturing specially in vendors' workshops. (25) Spice grinding. (26) Work in boiler house. (27) Work in cinemas, mini cinemas and cyber clubs. (28) Mica-cutting and splitting. (29) Shellas manufacturing. (30) Soap manufacture. (31) Wool cleaning. (32) Building and construction industry. (33) Manufacture of slate pencils including packing. (34) Manufacture of products from agate.]

Effective date: 1991-01-01

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