Section 7 of the Employment of Women, Young Persons and Children Act, No. 47 of 1956 (hereinafter referred to as the “principal enactment”) is hereby amended in subsection (3), by the substitution for the words “ten thousand rupees”, of the words, “one hundred thousand rupees”.
It is hereby declared that the amendments made to sections 7, 13, and 20a shall not apply in respect of any offence committed under the above sections where such offences were committed prior to the coming into operation of this Act.