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(1). Children over twelve years of age may, outside the hours fixed for school attendance, be employed on light work:
(a) which is not harmful to their health or normal development;
(b) which is not such as to prejudice their attendance at school or their capacity to benefit from the instruction there given; and
(c) the duration of which does not exceed two hours per day on either school days or holidays, the total number of hours spent at school and on light work in no case to exceed seven per day.
(2). Light work shall be prohibited:
(a) on Sundays and legal public holidays;
(b) during the night, that is to say during a period of at least twelve consecutive hours comprising the interval between 8 p.m. and 8 a.m.
(3). After the principal organisations of employers and workers concerned have been consulted, national laws or regulations shall:
(a) specify what forms of employment may be considered to be light work for the purpose of this Article;
(b) prescribe the preliminary conditions to be complied with as safeguards before children may be employed in light work.
(4). Subject to the provisions of sub-paragraph (a) of paragraph (1) above,
(a) national laws or regulations may determine work to be allowed and the number of hours per day to be worked during the holiday time of children referred to in Article 2 who are over fourteen years of age;
(b) in countries where no provision exists relating to compulsory school attendance, the time spent on light work shall not exceed four and a half hours per day.