Employment of Women, Young Persons and Children (Amendment) Act 2003 · As enacted
3. Amendment of section 2A of the principal enactment
Official English translation. Where it differs from the Sinhala or Tamil text, the Act itself says which text prevails.
Official translationFrom Department of Government Printing, unchanged
Section 2A of the principal enactment is hereby amended by the addition at the end of that section of the following new subsections :—
‘(3)
Where a person is employed at night in contravention of the conditions set out in subsection (2) the employer and any other person (other than the person employed) to whose act or default the contravention is attributable shall be guilty of an offence under this Act and shall on conviction after summary trial before a Magistrate be liable to a fine not exceeding ten thousand rupees or to imprisonment of either description for a period not exceeding twelve months or to both such fine and imprisonment and in the case of a young person only, where such young person is below the age of eighteen years, in addition to the above punishment the 2—H 17137— 5,650 (2002/11)
Employment of Women, Young Persons and employer shall be ordered to pay compensation of such amount as may be determined by court, to the person in respect of whom the offence was committed.
In this section “the Commissioner of Labour”
includes the Additional Commissioner of Labour, a Deputy
Commissioner of Labour and an Assistant Commissioner of
Labour.’.