Canada Labour Standards Regulations

10 (1) An employer may employ a person under the age of 17 years in any office or plant, in any transportation, communication, maintenance or repair service, or in any construction work or other employment in a federal work, undertaking or business if

• (a) he is not required, under the law of the province in which he is ordinarily resident, to be in attendance at school; and

• (b) the work in which he is to be employed

  • (i) is not carried on underground in a mine,

  • (ii) would not cause him to be employed in or enter a place that he is prohibited from entering under the Explosives Regulations,

  • (iii) is not work as a nuclear energy worker as defined in the Nuclear Safety and Control Act,

  • (iv) is not work under the Canada Shipping Act that he is prohibited by reason of age from doing, or

  • (v) is not likely to be injurious to his health or to endanger his safety.

(2) An employer may not cause or permit an employee under the age of 17 years to work between 11 p.m. on one day and 6 a.m. on the following day.

(3) [Repealed, SOR/99-337, s. 1]

(4) [Repealed, SOR/91-461, s. 10]