Prohibition of employment of children in factories, etc
included in editionWhat does this mean?
A child below fourteen cannot be employed in a factory, mine or other hazardous employment. Other child-work restrictions also come from legislation, so this Article is not the whole statutory rulebook.
Enforceable constitutional rights, their limits, protective exceptions and the courts' remedies.
Employing a twelve-year-old in a factory raises this specific constitutional prohibition and the relevant child-labour legislation.
Why is this provision here?
It protects young children from the specified dangerous forms of employment and provides a constitutional floor for implementing legislation.
This Article number belongs to the original constitutional framework, but its present wording may include later amendments or substitutions. A provision-specific original Assembly debate has not been verified here. The explanation of function above is editorial inference from the text, not an attributed single motive of the framers. The original draft-making archive is a research resource, not proof of a particular historical reason.
The explanation of purpose is an editorial reading of the provision. A drafting motive is attributed only where a linked historical source supports it.
Limits, exceptions & reading carefully
Educational summary of the linked source text. Exceptions, provisos, implementing laws and applicable judgments must be read before applying it to a real case.
Read the official constitutional text
Extracted from the Legislative Department’s May 2026 edition. Page footnotes may refer to neighbouring provisions; check their markers in the PDF. Inclusion in this edition does not by itself establish commencement or judicial effect.