SECTION 86

(1) No child shall employed in an enterprise even as an apprentice before the age of 14 (fourteen) years, except as otherwise authorized by order of the minister in charge of labour, taking account of local conditions and the jobs which the children may be asked to do. (2) An order of the minister in charge of labour shall determine the conditions for the hiring, employment and supervision of the employment of young persons on board ship, provided : • (a) that a young person under 18 (eighteen) years of age may in no case be employed on board ship as a trimmer or stocker, and • (b) that when children and young persons under 18 (eighteen) years of age are to be embarked on ships other than those on which only members of the same family are employed, they shall be medically examined to ascertain their fitness for work on board ship and a medical certificate shall be made out attesting fitness for such work and signed by an approved medical practitioner. (3) An order of the minister in charge of labour shall specify the types of work and categories of enterprises in which young people shall not be employed, and the age-limit to which the prohibition shall apply. (4) The orders referred to in the above sub-sections shall be issued after consultation with the National Commission on Industrial Hygiene and Safety.