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LAWS OF MALAYSIA

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Act 350

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS (EMPLOYMENT) ACT 1966

As at 1 October 2019

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THE COMMISSIONER OF LAW REVISION, MALAYSIA

UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF THE REVISION OF LAWS ACT  1968

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

Section

1. Short title and application

1a. Interpretation

EMPLOYMENT

2.    Employment  in  which children  and young persons may be engaged

3.    The Minister may prohibit  any child or young person from engaging or being engaged in any employment

4.    Number of days work

5.    Hours of work of children

6.    Hours of work of young persons

PUBLIC ENTERTAINMENT

7.    Employment connected with public entertainment

INQUIRY INTO WAGES

8.     (Deleted)

MISCELLANEOUS

9.    Administration and enforcement

9a.     Offence by body corporate, etc.

10.    Jurisdiction

11.    Prosecutions and right of audience

12.     Certificate of medical officer as to age

Section

13.     Contractual capacity

14.    Penalty

15.    Regulations

15a.    Power to amend Schedules

16.    Application  of  certain  provisions  of  the  Employment Act  1955  and regulations made thereunder

17.     (Omitted)

18.     Saving

First  schedule  (Deleted)

second  schedule  (Omitted)

third  schedule

Fourth  schedule FiFth  schedule

An Act to regulate the employment of children and young persons.

[1 October 1966, P.U. 356/1966]

BE IT ENACTED by the Seri Paduka Baginda Yang di-Pertuan Agong  with  the  advice  and  consent  of  the  Dewan  Negara  and Dewan Rakyat in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

Short title and application

1.  (1)  This Act may be cited as the Children and Young Persons (Employment) Act  1966.

(2)  This  Act  shall  apply  only  to  the  States  of  *Peninsular Malaysia.

Interpretation

1a.  (1)  In  this Act, unless the context otherwise requires —

“agricultural undertaking” means any work in which any person is  employed  under  a  contract  of  service  for  the  purposes  of agriculture or horticulture, the tending of domestic animals and poultry or the collection of the produce of any plants or trees, but does not include any work performed in a forest;

*NOTE—All  references  to  “West  Malaysia”  shall  be  construed  as  reference  to  “Peninsular Malaysia”–see the Interpretation (Amendment) Act  1997  [Act A996] subsection 5(2).

“child” means a person under the age of fifteen years;

“contract of service” means any agreement, whether oral or in writing and whether express or implied, whereby a person agrees in accordance with the provisions of this Act to employ a child or young person and that child or young person agrees to serve him and includes an apprenticeship contract;

“employ” and “employment” mean employment in any labour for the purposes of gain, whether the gain be to a child, young person or to any other person;

“employer” means any person who has entered into a contract of service to employ any child or young person and includes the agent, manager or factor of such first-mentioned person;

“entertainment”  includes  any  exhibition  or  performance;  and a person is deemed to take part in an entertainment when  such person  is  employed  in  or  connected  with  such  entertainment whether as a performer, stage-hand or musician;

“family” means a parent, sibling or guardian who has custody, of a child or young person;

“guardian” in relation to child or young person, includes any person  who,  in  the  opinion  of  the  court  having  cognizance  of any  case  in  relation  to  the  child  or  young  person  or  in  which the child or young person is concerned, has for the time being the charge of or control over the child or young person;

“light work” means any work performed by a child or young person which is not likely —

(a)  to be harmful to his health, mental, or physical capacity; or

(b)  to prejudice his attendance at school that includes any place  which  teaches  any  religion,  his  participation  in vocational orientation or training programmes approved by  the  competent  authority  or  his  capacity  to  benefit from the instruction received;

“Minister” means the Minister for the time being charged with responsibility for human resources;

“public entertainment” means entertainment to which the public or  any  section  of the  public  is  admitted  or  in  connection  with which any charge, whether for admission or not, is made or at which  any  collection  or  subscription  is  received  and  includes performances for the making of films for public exhibition other than  news  films  but  does  not  include  any  entertainment  given by  the  pupils  of  any  school  registered  under  the  *Education Act  1961  [Act  43  of  1961]  at  or  under  the  auspices  of  such school,  or  any  entertainment  promoted  by  a  voluntary,  social or  welfare  body  which  has  been  approved  by  the  Director General;

“vessel” includes any ship or boat or any other description of vessel used in navigation;

“young person” means  a person who has  attained the  age of fifteen years and under the age of eighteen years.

(2)  Other  expression  have  the  same  meanings  as  in  the Employment Act  1955  [Act  265]  and  the  Weekly  Holidays Act 1950  [Act 220].

EMPLOYMENT

Employment  in  which  children  and  young  persons  may  be engaged

2.  (1)  For the purpose  of this section, “hazardous work” means work specified in the Fourth Schedule.

(1a)  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.

*NOTE—The Education Act 1961 [Act 43 of 1961] has since been repealed by the Education Act 1996  [Act 550]–see section  155 of Act 550.

(1b)  Notwithstanding subsection (1a), 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.

(2) A child maybe engaged in any of the following employments:

(a)  employment involving light work suitable to his capacity in any undertaking carried on by his family;

(b)  employment in any public entertainment, in accordance with  the  terms  and  conditions  of a  licence  granted  in that behalf under this Act;

(c)  employment requiring him to perform work approved or sponsored by the Federal Government or the Government of  any  State  and  carried  on  in  any  school,  training institution or training vessel; and

(d)  employment as an apprentice under a written apprenticeship contract approved by the Director General with whom a copy of such contract has been filed.

(2a )  The  age  of  admission  to  light  work  as  specified  in paragraph (2)(a) shall not be less than thirteen years.

(2b)  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 Fifth Schedule.

(3)  A young person may be engaged in any of the following employments:

(a)  any employment mentioned in subsection (2); and in relation to  paragraph  (a)  of  that  subsection  any  employment suitable to his capacity (whether or not the undertaking is carried on by his family);

(b)  (Deleted by Act A1586);

(c)  employment in any office, shop (including hotels, restaurants and stalls), godown, factory, workshop, store, boarding house, theatre, cinema or association;

(d)  employment in an industrial undertaking suitable to his capacity; and

(e)  employment on any vessel under the personal charge of his parent or guardian.

(4)  The Minister may, if he is satisfied that any employment (not mentioned in subsection (2) or subsection (3)) is not dangerous to  life,  limb,  health,  safety  or  morals,  by  order  declare  such employment  to  be  an  employment  in  which  a  child  or  young person  may  be,  or  permitted  to  be,  engaged;  and  the  Minister may in  such order impose  such conditions as he deems fit and he may at any time revoke or vary the order or may withdraw or alter such conditions.

(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 Factories and Machinery Act  1967  [Act  139], the  Occupational  Safety  and  Health Act  1994  [Act  514]  or  the Electricity Supply Act  1990  [Act 447].

(6)  (Deleted by Act A1586).

The Minister may prohibit any child or young person from engaging or being engaged in any employment

3.  Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions, the Minister may, in any particular case, by order prohibit any child or young person from engaging or from being engaged in any of the employments mentioned  in  section  2  if  he  is  satisfied  that  having  regard  to the circumstances such employment would be detrimental to the interests of the child or young person, as the case may be.

4.  No child or young person engaged in any employment shall in any period of seven consecutive days be required or permitted to work for more than six days.

Hours of work of children

5.  (1)  No child engaged in any employment shall be required or permitted —

(a)  to work between the hours of 8 o’clock in the evening and 7 o’clock in the morning;

(b)  to work for more than three consecutive hours without a period of rest of at least thirty minutes;

(c)  to work for more than six hours in a day or, if the child is attending school, for a period which together with the time he spends attending school, exceeds seven hours; or

(d)  to  commence  work  on  any  day  without  having  had  a period of not less than fourteen consecutive hours free from work.

(2)  Paragraph  (1)(a)  shall  not  apply to  any child engaged in employment in any public entertainment.

Hours of work of young persons

6.  (1)  No  young  person  engaged  in  any  employment  shall  be required or permitted —

(a)  to work between the hours of 8 o’clock in the evening and 6 o’clock in the morning;

(b)  to work for more than four consecutive hours without a period of rest of at least thirty minutes;

(c)  to work for more than  seven hours in any one day or, if the  young  person  is  attending  school,  for  a  period which together with the time he spends attending school, exceeds eight hours:

Provided that if the young person is an apprentice under paragraph  2(2)(d),  the period  of work  in  any one day shall not exceed eight hours; or

(d)  to  commence  work  on  any  day  without  having  had  a period  of not  less  than  twelve  consecutive  hours  free from work.

(2)  Paragraph (1)(a) shall not apply to any young person engaged in employment in an agricultural undertaking or any employment in a public entertainment or on any vessel under paragraph 2(3)(e).

PUBLIC ENTERTAINMENT

Employment connected with public entertainment

7.  (1)  No child or young person shall take part or be required or permitted to take part in any public entertainment unless there has been issued by the Director General of Labour or by such other Director General as may be authorized in writing in that behalf by the Director General of Labour to the person employing such child or young person a licence in that behalf; and the Director General  may,  in  addition  to  such  conditions  or  restrictions  as may be prescribed from time to time under section 15, impose in respect of such licence (whether at the time the licence is issued or thereafter from time to time) such conditions as he deems fit.

(2)  No  licence  under  subsection  (1)  shall  be  granted  by  the Director General to any person where he is of the opinion that the employment is dangerous to the life, limb, health, safety or morals of the child or young person aforesaid.

(3)  The Director General may cancel any licence issued under this section on any ground for which he could refuse to issue a licence or on breach of any condition thereof, and such cancellation shall take effect forthwith until and unless set aside on appeal.

(4)  Any  child  or  young  person  or  the  parent  or  guardian  of such child or young person or any other person aggrieved by the decision of the Director General  aforesaid may within fourteen days of the making of that decision appeal to the Minister, and the decision of the Minister shall be final.

(5)  In  the  event  of  an  appeal,  the  child  or  young  person  or the  parent  or  guardian  of  such  child  or  young  person  shall  be entitled  to  be  supplied  by  the  Director  General  the  reasons  in writing for the cancellation of or refusal to issue a licence or for the imposition of conditions on a licence.

8.   (Deleted by Act A1586).

MISCELLANEOUS

Administration and enforcement

9.  The Director General of Labour and such other officers appointed under  section  3  of  the  Employment Act  1955  to  carry  out  the provisions of that Act, shall be charged with the responsibility for the carrying out of the provisions of this Act; and references in this Act to the Director General shall unless the context otherwise requires be construed as references to any one of these officers.

Offence by body corporate, etc.

9a.  Where an offence under this Act has been committed by a body corporate, partnership, society or trade union —

(a)  in  the  case  of a body  corporate,  any person  who  is  a director, manager, or other  similar officer of the body corporate at the time of the commission of the offence;

(b)  in the case of a partnership, every partner in the partnership at the time of the commission of the offence; and

(c)  in  the   case  of  a   society  or  trade  union,  every office-bearer of the  society or trade union  at the time of the commission of the offence, shall  be  deemed  to  have  committed  the  offence  and  may  be charged jointly or severally in the same proceedings as the body corporate, partnership, society or trade union.

Jurisdiction

10.  Without prejudice to the jurisdiction  of the High  Court  or the  Sessions  Court, the  Court  of a First  Class Magistrate  shall have jurisdiction to try any offence against this Act and to award the full punishment prescribed.

Prosecutions and right of audience

11.   (1)  Proceedings for offences against this Act or against any order  or  regulation  made  thereunder  shall  not  be  instituted  or conducted except by or on behalf of the Public Prosecutor.

(2)  The  Director  General  shall  have  the  right  to  appear  and be heard in any proceedings under this Act, and such right shall include the right to appear and represent a child or young person in any such proceedings.

Certificate of medical officer as to age

12.  Where, in any proceeding under this Act, a person is alleged to be a child or young person, the Court may accept a certificate of a Government Medical Officer to the effect that, in his opinion, such person is or is not a child or young person.

Contractual capacity

13.  Notwithstanding  anything  to  the  contrary  contained  in  the Contracts  Act  1950  [Act  136]  or  the  provisions  of  any  other written  law,  any  child  or  young  person  shall  be  competent  to enter into a contract of service under this Act otherwise than as an employer, and may sue as plaintiff without his next friend or defend any action without a guardian ad litem:

Provided that no damages and no indemnity under section  13 of the Employment Act  1955, shall be recoverable from a child or young person for a breach of any contract of service.

Penalty

14.  (1)  Any  person  contravening  any of the provisions of this Act or of any regulations or order made thereunder or who being the  parent  or  guardian  of  a  child  or  young  person  knowingly acquiesces in any such contravention in respect of such child or young person shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to a fine not exceeding fifty thousand ringgit or to both and, in the case of a second or subsequent offence, shall be liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years or to a fine not exceeding one hundred thousand ringgit or to both.

(2)  On  the  conviction  of  any  person  for  an  offence  under subsection (1) the Director General shall, if the person convicted is  the  holder  of  a  licence  under  the  *Theatres  and  Places  of Public Amusement Enactment 1936 of the Federated Malay States [F.M.S.  47  of  1936]  or  under  any  other  corresponding  written law  in  force,  inform  the  licensing  authority  concerned  of  the particulars  of  such  conviction  and  the  licensing  authority  may take such action as it considers appropriate.

Regulations

15.  (1)  The Minister may make regulations for carrying out any of the purposes of this Act.

(2)  In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, the Minister may make regulations to prescribe —

(a)  the form of licence to be issued under section 7 and the conditions and restrictions to be attached to such licence; and

(b)  the times which children and young persons employed shall be entitled to take off from work for meals or as rest periods.

(c)  (Deleted by Act A1586).

*NOTE—The Theatres and Places of Public Amusement Enactment 1936 of the Federated Malay States [F.M.S. 47 of 1936] has since been repealed by the Theatres and Places of Public Amusement (Federal Territory) Act  1977  [Act 182]. The Theatres and Places of Public Amusement (Federal Territory) Act  1977  has  since  been  repealed  by  the  Entertainment  (Federal  Territory  of  Kuala Lumpur) Act  1992  [Act 493] which came into force on  1  October  1993.

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(3)  The regulations contained in the Third Schedule shall have effect unless and until replaced or amended by regulations made under this section, and shall be deemed to be regulations made under this section.

Power to amend Schedules

15a.  The Minister may, by order published in the Gazette, amend the Schedules to this Act.

Application of certain provisions of the Employment Act 1955 and regulations made thereunder

16.  The  provisions  of  the  Employment  Act   1955  and  of  any regulations made thereunder,  shall  apply to the  employment  of any child or young person under this Act, as if those provisions were  enacted  in  and  form  part  of  this  Act;  and  references  in those  provisions  to  “contract  of  service”  and  “employer”  shall be construed accordingly.

17.  (Omitted).

Saving

18.  Nothing in this Act shall be construed as relieving any person who has entered into a contract of service, either as an employer or  employee,  of  any  rights,  duties  or  liabilities  conferred  or imposed upon him by the provisions of any other written law for the time being in force in the States of *Peninsular Malaysia or to limit any power which may be exercised by any public officer pursuant to any such provisions.

*NOTE—All  references  to  “West  Malaysia”  shall  be  construed  as  reference  to  “Peninsular Malaysia”–see the Interpretation (Amendment) Act  1997  [Act A996].

First  schedule

[Section  16]

(Deleted by Act A1386)

second  schedule

[Section  17]

(Omitted)

third  schedule

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS (EMPLOYMENT) REGULATIONS  1966

Short title

1.    These  Regulations  may  be  cited  as  the  Children  and  Young  Persons (Employment) Regulations  1966.

Interpretation

2.    Unless there is something repugnant in the subject or context, words and expressions used in these Regulations have the meaning respectively assigned to them by the Children and Young Persons (Employment) Act  1966 (hereinafter in these Regulations referred to as the “Act”).

CONDITIONS OF LABOUR

Production of children for inspection

3.    Any child employed in any form of labour shall be produced, or caused to be produced, by his employer for inspection  at  any time during working hours or at any other reasonable time upon the demand of —

(a)  a Director General; (b)  a Magistrate; or

(c)  any person authorized in that behalf by the Director General of Health, the  Director  General  of Labour  or  the  Director  General  of Social Welfare.

PUBLIC ENTERTAINMENTS

Medical examinations

4.    Every child and young person taking part in any public entertainment shall be produced by the employer of such child or young person or by his agent for examination and shall be examined by a Government Medical Officer in the first instance and thereafter not less than once in every three months, and such Medical Officer shall report the result of his examination to the Director General.

Form of licence

5.    A licence to take part in a public entertainment issued under section 7 of the Act shall be in the form as set out in the Schedule to these Regulations, with such modifications as the circumstances may require. Such licence shall provide —

(a)  the maximum number of performances to be given in any one day or week;

(b)  the  maximum number of performances to be given consecutively;

(c)  the hours of the day between which a child or young person shall not take part in a public performance;

(d)  that  no performance shall exceed four hours in duration;

(e)  that  a child or young person shall not take part in any performance which is dangerous to life, limb, health or morals;

(f)  that  a child or young person  shall report in person or in writing to an Assistant State Director of Labour or a State Director of Labour when leaving the service of the present employer;

(g)  that a child or young person shall report to an Assistant State Director of Labour or a State Director of Labour in writing or in person when leaving the District or State and give the destination;

(h)  that a child or young person shall report arrival in any District to the nearest Labour Office in writing or in person; and

(i)  any other conditions or remarks.

Penalty

6.    Any person who shall employ any child or young person in breach of any of the provisions  of these Regulations  or  who  shall  fail to produce  a  child or young person when required under the provisions of regulation 3 or shall otherwise contravene the provisions of these Regulations, shall be guilty of an offence and shall, where no other penalty is provided by the Act, be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty ringgit or to imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months or to both such fine and imprisonment.

Revocation

7.    The Children and Young Persons Rules 1947 [G.N. 8529 of 1947] (except rule  17  in  so  far  as  it  relates  to  Forms  I,  II  and  IV  to  X  of  the  Schedule thereto) are hereby revoked.

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS (EMPLOYMENT) ACT  1966

[Section 7—Regulation 5]

LICENCE TO TAKE PART IN A PUBLIC ENTERTAINMENT

CONDITIONS

1.    Not  more  than  .....................  performances  to  be  given  in

any one week.

2.    Not  more  than  .....................  performances  to  be  given  in

any one day with a minimum interval of ....... hours between successive performances.

3.    No performance to exceed four hours in duration.

4.    Not to take part in any performance which is dangerous to life, limb, health or morals.

5.    To report in person or in writing to an Assistant State Director of Labour or  a  State Director of Labour when leaving the service of the present employer.

6.    To report to an Assistant State Director of Labour or a State Director of Labour in writing or in person when leaving the District or State and to give the destination.

7.    To report arrival in any District to the nearest Labour Office in writing or in person.

8.    To appear before a Government Medical Officer for examination not less than once in every three months.

9.    Other conditions or remarks :                                                     

...............................................................................................

Fourth  schedule

[Subsection 2(1)]

List of hazardous work

A.   WORK  RELATED  TO  MACHINES,  INSTALLATIONS  AND  OTHER EQUIPMENT

1.    Machinery

(a)  Any machine tools or production machine which can pose high risk such as drilling machines, grinding machines, cutting machines, lathes machines, scraping machines, power press machine, knitting machines, weaving machines, packaging machines and bottling machines;

(b)  Steam boiler or internal combustion engine such as diesel engines, turbines and engines for generating electricity;

(c)  Hoisting  and  loading machine  such as lift, hoist, crane, escalators, conveyor belts, gondolas and forklift; or

(d)  High pressure vessels.

2.    Heavy-duty  machine  such  as  tractors,  rock  breakers,  graders,  asphalt mixers, piling machine and agriculture machinery.

3.    Installations  such  as  pressure  pipe,  electricity,  firefighting  system  and electricity transmission lines.

B.   WORK  CONDUCTED IN HAZARDOUS ENVIRONMENT

1.    Work that is exposed to physical hazards

(a)  Underground work, underwater or in a confined space such as a well or a tunnel;

(b)  Working  at height which can lead to  serious bodily injury;

(c)  Working environment which involves electricity at high voltage power line;

(d)  Working  in a caisson with limited ventilation;

(e)  Work that uses electric welding machines or gas welding machines;

(f)  Work  in an environment with extreme temperature and moisture or high-speed wind;

(g)  Work in an environment with noise or vibration where intensity exceeds the permissible exposure limits;

(h)  Work  to handle, store, use and transport radioactive substances;

(i)  Work that produces ionizing radiation or work in an environment with ionizing radiation;

(j)  Work  in a dusty environment that is detrimental to health;    (k)  Work  which may lead to electrocution, fire or explosion; or

(l)  Manual  handling  works  which  may pose high risk  such  as lifting, lowering, pushing, pulling, carrying or moving a load.

2.    Work that is exposed to chemical hazards

(a)  Work in relation to production, processing, handling, storage, transport, removal,  disposal  or  treatment  of  hazardous  chemical  as  defined in  the  Occupational  Safety  and  Health  (Classification,  Labelling and  Safety Data  Sheet of Hazardous Chemicals) Regulations 2013 [P.U. (A) 310/2013]; or

(b)  Work in relation to production, processing, handling, storage, transport, removal, disposal or treatment of pesticides and schedule waste as defined in the Pesticides Act 1974 [Act 149] and the Environmental Quality (Scheduled Wastes) Regulations 2005  [P.U. (A) 294/2005].

3.    Work that is exposed to biological hazards

Work  in  an  environment  that  relates  to  germs,  bacteria,  viruses,  fungi, parasites and other biological agents such as works in clinical laboratories, slaughter  house,  meat  processing  place  and  silo  or  storage  for  storing crops.

C.   WORK CONTAIN CERTAIN HAZARDOUS NATURE AND CONDITION

1.    Construction work including construction of building, bridges, roads, or irrigation project.

2.    Work in timber industry such as cutting, transporting and unloading trees.

3.    Work offshore such as working in a petroleum platform.

4.    Work  above  or  near  water  where  the  risk  of  drowning  exist  such  as lifeguard, fishing activities and work in water treatment plant.

FiFth  schedule

[Subsection 2(2b)]

Employment in which children or young persons shall not be required, permitted to be or engaged in —

1.    All kind of employment that make use of, procure, or offer children or young persons for prostitution.

2.    All kind of employment as social escorts, hostesses and any other related activities.

3.    All kind of employment that require children or young persons to involve in the production or trade of alcoholic beverages.

4.    All kind of employment related to gambling and lotteries activities.

5.    All kind of employment that require children or young persons to work in any activities related to massage services or reflexology services.

6.    All kind of employment that make use of, procure, or offer children or young persons for any kind of job related to pornography.

7.    All kind of employment that make use of, procure, or involve children or young persons for the production and trade of drugs, narcotics, psychotropic substances and other addictive substances which are prohibited under any written law in operation.