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Young Persons (Harmful Publication) Act, 1956 Preamble 1

Title: Young Persons (Harmful Publications)act, 1956

State: Central

Year: 1956

THE YOUNG PERSONS (HARMFUL PUBLICATIONS) ACT, 1956 [Act, No. 93 of 1956] [28th December, 1956] PREAMBLE An Act to prevent the dissemination of certain publications harmful to young persons. be it enacted by Parliament in the Seventh Year of the Republic of India as follows:--

Young Persons (Harmful Publication) Act, 1956 Complete Act

Title: Young Persons (Harmful Publication) Act, 1956

State: Central

Year: 1956

Preamble1 - YOUNG PERSONS (HARMFUL PUBLICATIONS)ACT, 1956 Section1 - Short title, extent and commencement Section2 - Definitions Section3 - Penalty for sale, etc., of harmful publications Section4 - Power of Government to declare harmful publications forfeited Section5 - Appeal to High Court against order of forfeiture Section6 - Power to seize and destroy harmful publications Section7 - Offences under this Act to be cognizable

Factories Act, 1948 Chapter VII

Title: Employment of Young Persons

State: Central

Year: 1948

.....certificate of fitness, as the case may be, under section 69, or has been certified by the certifying surgeon examining him not to be a young person. Section 76 - Power to make rules The State Government may make rules-- (a) prescribing the forms of certificates of fitness to be granted under section 69, providing for the grant of duplicates in the event of toss of the original certificates, and fixing the fees which may be charged for such certificates and renewals thereof and such duplicates; (b) prescribing the physical standards to be attained by children and adolescents working in factories; (c) regulating the procedure of certifying surgeons under this Chapter; (d) specifying other duties which certifying surgeons may be required to perform in connection with the employment of young persons in factories, and fixing the fees which may be charged for such duties and the persons by whom they shall be payable. Section 77 - Certain other provisions of law not barred The provisions of this Chapter shall be in addition to, and not in derogation of, the provisions of the Employment of Children Act, 1938 (26 of 1938).

Young Persons (Harmful Publications) Act, 1956 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1956

.....(1) in respect of any publication it shall be lawful for any police officer to seize the same wherever found in the territories to which this Act extends. SECTION 05: APPEAL TO HIGH COURT AGAINST ORDER OF FORFEITURE Any person aggrieved by an. order of forfeiture passed by the State Government under Sec. 4-may, within sixty days of the date of such order apply to the High Court to set aside the order, and upon such application the High Court may pass such order as it deems fit. SECTION 06: POWER TO SEIZE AND DESTROY HARMFUL PUBLICATIONS (1) Any police officer or any other officer empowered in this behalf by the State Government may seize harmful publication. (2) Any Magistrate of the first class may, by warrant, authorize any police officer not below the rank of Sub-Inspector to enter and search any place where any stock of harmful publication may be or may be reasonably suspected to be, and such police officer may seize any publication found in such place if in his opinion it is a harmful publication. (3) Any publication seized under the dub section(1) shall be produced, as soon as may be, before a Magistrate of the first class, and any publication seized.....

Merchant Shipping Act, 1958 Section 111

Title: Medical Examination of Young Persons

State: Central

Year: 1958

(1) Save as otherwise provided in subsection (2), no young person shall be engaged or carried to sea to work in any capacity in any ship, unless there has been delivered to the master a certificate granted by a prescribed authority that the young person is physically fit to be employed in that capacity. (2) Sub-section (1) shall not apply, (a) to the employment of a young person in a ship in which all persons employed are members of one family; or (b) where the shipping master, on the ground of urgency, has authorised a young person to be engaged and carried to sea, without the certificate required by sub-section (1) being delivered to the master, and the young person is not employed beyond the first port at which the ship in which he is so engaged calls except in accordance with the provisions of sub-section (j). (3) A Certificate of physical fitness required under this section shall remain in force for one year only from the date on which it is granted.

Merchant Shipping Act, 1958 Section 110

Title: Engagement of Young Persons as Trimmers or Stokers

State: Central

Year: 1958

(1) Save as other wise provided in sub-sections (2) and (3), no young person shall be engaged or carried to sea to workas a trimmer or stoker in any ship. (2) Sub-section (1) shall not apply (a) to any work of trimming or stoking done by a young person in a school ship or training ship in accordance with the prescribed conditions; or (b) to any work of trimming or stroking done by a young person in a ship which is mainly propelled otherwise than by steam; or (c) to the engagement or carrying to sea of a person over sixteen years of age to work as a trimmer or stoker on a coasting ship, provided he is employed in accordance with the prescribed conditions. (3) Where in any port a trimmer or stoker is required for any ship other than a coasting ship, and no person over eighteen years of age is available, two young persons over sixteen years of age may be engaged and carried to the sea to do the work which would otherwise have been done by one person over eighteen years of age. (4) There shall be included in every agreement with the crew in ships to which this section applies a short summary of the provisions of this section.

Merchant Shipping Act, 1958 Section 112

Title: Maintenance of List or Register of Young Persons in a Ship

State: Central

Year: 1958

There shall be included in every agreement with the crew of every Indian ship and every other ship which engages young persons in India a list of young persons who are members of the crew, together with particulars of the dates of their birth, and, in the case of any such ship where there is no agreement, the master shall keep a register of young persons with particulars of the dates of their birth and of the dates on which they became or ceased to be members of the crew.

Merchant Shipping Act, 1958 Section 113

Title: Power to Make Rules Respecting Employment of Young Persons

State: Central

Year: 1958

(1) The Central Government may make rules prescribing (a) the conditions of employment of young persons in any capacity in school ships and training ships, and the authorities by whom and the manner in which the inspection of their work shall be carried out; (b) the conditions of employment of young persons as trimmers or stokers in coasting ships; (c) the authorities whose certificates of physical fitness shall be accepted for the purposesof section 111; and (d) the form of the register of young persons to be maintained in ships where there is no agreement with the crew. (2) Rules under clause (b) of sub-section (1) shall be made after consultation with such organisations in India as the Central Government may consider to be most representative of the employers of seamen and of seamen.

Young Persons (Harmful Publication) Act, 1956 Section 2

Title: Definitions

State: Central

Year: 1956

In this Act,-- (a) "harmful publication" means any book, magazine, pamphlet, leaflet, news-paper or other like publication which consists of stories told with the aid of pictures or without the aid of pictures or wholly in pictures, being stories portraying wholly or mainly-- (i) the commission of offences; or (ii) acts of violence or cruelty; or (iii) incidents of a repulsive or horrible nature; in such a way that the publication as a whole would tend to corrupt a young person into whose hands it might fall, whether by inciting or encouraging him to commit offences or acts of violence or cruelly or in any other manner whatsoever; (b) "State Government" in relation to a Union territory, means the administrator thereof; (c) "young person" means a person under the age of twenty years.

Factories Act, 1948 Section 23

Title: Employment of Young Persons on Dangerous Machines

State: Central

Year: 1948

(1) No young person 1 [shall be required or allowed to work] at any machine to which this section applies, unless he has been fully instructed as to the dangers arising in connection with the machine and the precautions to be observed and- (a) has received sufficient training in work at the machine, or (b) is under adequate supervision by a person who has a thorough knowledge and experience of the machine. (2) Sub-section (1) shall apply to such machines as may be prescribed by the State Government, being machines which in its opinion are of such a dangerous character that young persons ought no to work at them unless the foregoing requirements are complied with. ___________________ 1. Substituted by Act 20 of 1987, 10, for "shall work" (w.e.f. 1-12-1987).