Demande directe (CEACR) - adoptée 1998, publiée 87ème session CIT (1999)

The Committee notes that the Employment of Children (General Provisions) Order, 1989, was repealed by the Act annulling the Employment of Children (General Provisions) Order, 1989, as amended, dated 21 November 1989. It recalls that the Convention prohibits the employment of children under the age of 14 years in any industrial undertaking other than an undertaking in which only members of the same family are employed. The only exception provided for in the Convention concerns work done in technical schools. The Committee requests the Government to indicate the legislative provisions currently in force to give effect to the provisions of the Convention after the Order of 1989 was repealed, and provide their text.

The Committee also requests the Government to provide information on the practical application of the Convention as required in point V of the report form, including the effect of having raised the school-leaving age to 16 years, and attaching, for example, extracts from official reports, information on the inspection visits made and the number and nature of contraventions reported, and statistics on school attendance.