Prohibition of employment of children

No child shall be required or allowed to work in any establishment except as an apprentice in such employment as may be specified by the State Government. (1) No police officer, or other officer or pound keeper appointed under the provision herein contained and no member of local authority under whose control the pound is, shall directly or indirectly purchase any cattle at a sale under this Act. (2) No pound-keeper shall release or deliver any impounded cattle otherwise than in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, unless such release or delivery is ordered by the Director or the local authority or the Magistrate acting under Chapter V of this act or a Civil Court, in writing stating the reasons for such order.