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) the person is not required, under the law of the province in which they are ordinarily resident, to be in attendance at school; and

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

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

  • (ii) would not cause them to be employed in or enter a place that they are prohibited from entering under the Explosives Regulations, 2013,

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

  • (iv) is not work that they are prohibited from doing under the Canada Shipping Act, 2001 by reason of their age, or

  • (v) is not likely to be injurious to their health or to endanger their 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(3) [Repealed, SOR/99-337, s. 1]

(4) [Repealed, SOR/91-461, s. 10]