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The child labour Act prohibits the employment of children below the age of 14 years in 16 occupations and 65 processes, which are dangerous to the children's lives and health. These processes and occupations are listed in the Schedule to the Act. The Government has included children working in the domestic sector as well as motels and roadside eateries under the prohibited list of hazardous occupations in October 2006. In September 2008 diving as well as process involving excessive cold and heat, mechanical fishing, food processing, beverage industry, timber handling and loading, mechanical lumbering, warehousing, and processes involving exposure to free silica such as slate, pencil industry, stone grinding, slate stone mining, stone quarries as well as the agate industry were added to the list of prohibited processes and occupations.
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