1 . Short title, extent and commencement.— (1) This Act may be called
the Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986.
(2) It extends to the whole of India.
(3) The provisions of this Act, other than Part III, shall come into force at
once, and Part III shall come into force on such date as the Central Government
may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint, and different dates may be
appointed for different States and for different classes of establishments.
2 . Definitions.— In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—
(i) “appropriate Government” means, in relation to an establishment
under the control of the Central Government or a railway
administration or a major port or a mine or oilfield, the Central
Government, and in all other cases, the State Government;
(ii) “child” means a person who has not completed his fourteenth
year of age;
(iii) “day” means a period of twenty-four hours beginning at midnight;
(iv) “establishment” includes a shop, commercial establishment,
workshop, farm, residential hotel, restaurant, eating house, theatre
or other place of public amusement or entertainment;
(v) “family””, in relation to an occupier, means the individual, the
wife or husband, as the case may be, of such individual, and their
children, brother or sister of such individual;
(vi) “occupier”, in relation to an establishment or a workshop, means
the person who has the ultimate control over the affairs of the
establishment or workshop;
(vii) “port authority”means any authority administering a port;
(viii)“prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under section 18;
(ix) “week” means a period of seven days beginning at midnight on
Saturday night or such other night as may be approved in writing
for a particular area by the Inspector;
(x) “workshop” means any premises (including the precincts thereof)
wherein any indusrial process is carried on, but does not include
any premises to which the provisions of section 67 of the Factories
Act, 1948 (63 of 1948), for the time being, apply