[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 29, Volume 3]
[Revised as of July 1, 2005]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 29CFR570.101]

[Page 283]
 
                             TITLE 29--LABOR
 
         CHAPTER V--WAGE AND HOUR DIVISION, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
 
PART 570_CHILD LABOR REGULATIONS, ORDERS AND STATEMENTS OF INTERPRETATION
--Table of Contents
 
   Subpart G_General Statements of Interpretation of the Child Labor 
     Provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, as Amended
 
Sec. 570.101  Introductory statement.

    Authority: 52 Stat. 1060-1069, as amended; 29 U.S.C. 201-219.

                                 General


    (a) This subpart discusses the meaning and scope of the child labor 
provisions contained in the Fair Labor Standards Act, as amended 
(hereinafter referred to as the Act). These provisions seek to protect 
the safety, health, well-being, and opportunities for schooling of 
youthful workers and authorize the Secretary of Labor to issue legally 
binding orders or regulations in certain instances and under certain 
conditions. The child labor provisions are found in sections 3(1), 
11(b), 12, 13 (c) and (d), 15(a)(4), 16(a), and 18 of the Act. They are 
administered and enforced by the Secretary of Labor who has delegated to 
the Wage and Hour Division the duty of making investigations to obtain 
compliance, and of developing standards for the issuance of regulations 
and orders relating to: (1) Hazardous occupations, (2) employment of 14- 
and 15-year-old children, and (3) age certificates.
    (b) The interpretations of the Secretary contained in this subpart 
indicate the construction of the law which will guide him in performing 
his duties until he is directed otherwise by authoritative rulings of 
the courts or until he shall subsequently decide that his prior 
interpretation is incorrect.

[16 FR 7008, July 20, 1951. Redesignated at 28 FR 1634, Feb. 21, 1963. 
Redesignated and amended at 36 FR 25156, Dec. 29, 1971]