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adopts, this twenty-second day of June, of the year one thousand nine hundred and thirty-seven, the following Draft Convention, which may be cited as the Minimum Age (Non-industrial) Employment Convention (Revised), 1937 : — Article 1. 1. This Convention applies to any employment not dealt with in the Convention concerning the age for admission of children to employment in agriculture (Geneva, 1921), the Minimum Age (Sea) Convention (Revised), 1936, or the Minimum Age (Industry) Convention (Revised), 1937. 2. The competent authority in each country shall, after consultation with the principal organizations of employers and workers concerned, define the line of division which separates the employments covered by this Convention from those dealt with in the three aforesaid Conventions. 3. This Convention does not apply to — (a) Employment in sea-fishing ; (b) Work done in technical and professional schools, provided that such work is essentially of an educative character, is not intended for commercial profit, and is restricted, approved, and supervised by public authority. 4. It shall be open to the competent authority in each country to exempt from the application of this Convention — (a) Employment in establishments in which only members of the employer's family are employed, except employment which is harmful, prejudicial, or dangerous within the meaning of Articles 3 or 5 of this Convention ; (b) Domestic work in the family performed by members of that family. Article 2. Children under fifteen years of age, or children over fifteen years who are still required by national laws or regulations to attend primary school, shall not be employed in any employment to which this Convention applies except as hereinafter otherwise provided. Article 3. 1. Children over thirteen years of age may, outside the hours fixed for school attendance, be employed on light work which — (а) Is not harmful to their health or normal development; and (б) Is not such as to prejudice their attendance at school or capacity to benefit from the instruction there given. 2. No child under fourteen years of age shall— (a) Be employed on light work for more than two hours per day, whether that day be a school day or a holiday ; or (b) Spend at school and on light work a total number of hours exceeding seven per day. 3. National laws or regulations shall prescribe the number of hours per day during which children over fourteen years of age may be employed on light work. 4. Light work shall be prohibited — (a) On Sundays and legal public holidays ; and (b) During the night. 5. For the purpose of the preceding paragraph the term " night " means — (a) In the case of children under fourteen years of age, a period of at least twelve consecutive hours comprising the interval between eight p.m. and eight a.m. ; (b) In the case of children over fourteen years of age, a period which shall be prescribed by national laws or regulations but the duration of which shall not, except in the case of tropical countries where a compensatory rest is accorded during the day,, be less than twelve hours. 6. After the principal organizations of employers and workers concerned have been consulted, national laws or regulations shall — (а) Specify what forms of employment may be considered to be light work for the purpose of this Article ; and (б) Prescribe the preliminary conditions to be complied with as safeguards before children may be employed on light work. 7. Subject to the provisions of subparagraph (a) of paragraph 1 above— (а) National laws or regulations may determine work to be allowed and the number of hours per day to be worked during the holiday-time of children referred to in Article 2 who are over fourteen years of age ; (б) In countries where no provision exists relating to compulsory school attendance, the time spent on light work shall not exceed four and a half hours per day. Article 4. 1. In the interests of art, science, or education, national laws or regulations may, by permits granted in individual cases, allow exceptions to the provisions of Articles 2 and 3 of this Convention, in order to enable children to appear in any public entertainment or as actors or supernumeraries in the making of cinematographic films.

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