Safety in Industry Act, 1980

Amendment of section 112 of Principal Act.

45.Section 112 of the Principal Act is hereby amended by the substitution of “not a child to whom the School Attendance Act, 1926 , applies” for “more than fourteen years of age” in subsection (2), and the said subsection (2), as so amended, is set out in the Table to this section.

TABLE

Where, in any proceedings under this Act with respect to a person alleged to be a young person, the court considers that such person is apparently less than eighteen and not a child to whom the School Attendance Act, 1926 , applies, it shall lie on the defendant to prove that such person is not a young person.