Article 1
- For the purpose of this Convention,
the term "industrial undertaking" includes particularly
a) mines, quarries, and other works for the extraction
of minerals from the earth;
b) industries in which articles are manufactured, altered,
cleaned, repaired, ornamented, finished, adapted for sale,
broken up or demolished, or in which materials are transformed;
including ship-building, and the generation, transformation,
and transmission of electricity and motive power of any
kind;
c) construction, reconstruction, maintenance, repair,
alteration or demolition of any building, railway, tramway,
harbour, dock, pier, canal, inland waterway, road, tunnel,
bridge, viaduct, sewer, drain, well, telegraphic or telephonic
installation, electrical undertaking, gas work, water work,
or other work of construction, as well as the preparation
for or laying the foundations of any work or structure;
d) transport of passengers or goods by road or rail
or inland waterway, including the handling of goods at docks,
quays, wharves, and warehouses, but excluding transport
by hand.
- The competent authority in
each country shall define the line of division which separates
industry from commerce and agriculture.
Article 2
Children under the age of fourteen
years shall not be employed or work in any public or private
industrial undertaking, or in any branch thereof, other than
an undertaking in which only members of the same family are
employed.
Article 3
The provisions of Article 2 shall
not apply to work dine by children in technical schools, provided
that such work is approved and supervised by public authority.
Article 4
In order to facilitate the enforcement
of the provisions of this Convention, every employer in an
industrial undertaking shall be required to keep a register
of all persons under the age of sixteen years employed by
him, and of the dates of their births.
Article 5
- In connection with the application
of this Convention to Japan, the following modifications
of Article 2 may be made:
a) children over twelve years of age may be admitted
into employment if they have finished the course in the
elementary school.
b) as regards children between the ages of twelve and
fourteen already employed, transitional regulations may
be made.
- The provisions in the present
Japanese law admitting children under the age of twelve
years to certain light and easy employments shall be repealed.
Thanks to William Ferenekes and Beverly Edmonds, Children's Rights:
A Reference Handbook, Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO,
1996.
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