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2. Provided that— (a) No such exception shall be allowed in respect of employment which is dangerous within the meaning of Article 5, such as employment in circuses, variety shows, or cabarets ; (b) Strict safeguards shall be prescribed for the health, physical development, and morals of the children, for ensuring kind treatment of them, adequate rest, and the coH' tinuation of their education ; and (c) Children to whom permits are granted in accordance with this Article shall not be employed after midnight. • Article 5. A higher age or ages than those referred to in Article 2 of this Convention shall be fixed by national laws or regulations for admission of young persons and adolescents to any employment which, by its nature, or the circumstances in which it is to be carried on, is dangerous to the life, health, or morals of the persons employed in it. Article 6. A higher age or ages than those referred to in Article 2 of this Convention shall be fixed by national laws or regulations for admission of young persons and adolescents to employment for purposes of itinerant trading in the streets or in places to which the public have access, to regular employment at stalls outside shops, or to employment in itinerant occupations, in cases where the conditions of such employment require that a higher age should be fixed. Article 7. In order to ensure the due enforcement of the provisions of this Convention, national laws or regulations shall— (а) Provide for an adequate system of public inspection and supervision ; (б) Require every employer to keep a register of the names and dates of'birth of all persons under the age of eighteen years employed by him in any employment to which this Convention applies other than an employment to which Article 6 applies : (c) Provide suitable means for facilitating the identification and supervision of persons under a specified age engaged in the employments and occupations covered by Article 6 ; and (d) Provide penalties for breaches of the laws or regulations by which effect is given to the provisions of this Convention. Article 8. There shall be included in the annual reports to be submitted under Article 22 of the Constitution of the International Labour Organization full information concerning all laws and regulations by which effect is given to the provisions of this Convention, including— (a) A list of the forms of employment which national laws or regulations specify to be light work for the purpose of Article 3 ; (b) A list of the forms of employment for which, in accordance with Articles 5 and 6, national laws or regulations have fixed ages for admission higher than those laid down in Article 2 ; and (c) Full information concerning the circumstances in which exceptions to the provisions of Articles 2 and 3 are permitted in accordance with the provisions of Article 4. Article 9. 1. The provisions of Articles 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 of this Convention shall not apply to India, but m India the following provisions shall apply to all territories in respect of which the Indian Legislature has jurisdiction to apply them. 2. Children under thirteen years of age shall not be employed — (a) In shops, offices, hotels, or restaurants ; (b) In places of public entertainment ; or (c) In any other non-industrial occupations to which the provisions of this paragraph may be extended by the competent authority. 3. In the interest of art, science, or education, national laws or regulations may, by permits granted in individual cases, allow exceptions to the provisions of the preceding paragraph in order to enable children to appear in any public entertainment or as actors or supernumeraries in the making of cinematographic films. 4. Persons under seventeen years of age shall not be employed in any non-industrial employment which the competent authority, after consultation with the principal organization of employers and workers concerned, may declare to involve danger to life, health, or morals. _ 5. The International Labour Conference may, at any session at which the matter is included m its Agenda, adopt by a two-thirds majority draft amendments to the preceding paragraphs of this Article. 6. Any such draft amendment shall, within the period of one year, or, in exceptional circumstances of eighteen months, from the closing of the session of the Conference, be submitted in India to the authority or authorities within whose competence the matter lies, for the enactment of legislation or other action.

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