Who is an adolescent for the purposes of the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code,…

Section 2(1)(a) of the Code gives "adolescent" the meaning in section 2(i) of the Child and Adolescent Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986: a person who has completed his fourteenth year of age but has not completed his eighteenth year (formerly section 2(b) of the Factories Act, 1948 used fifteen to eighteen years). A person who has completed eighteen years is an "adult" under section 2(1)(b).

The fifteen-year lower limit is the old Factories Act definition. "Not completed eighteen years" has no lower limit and would include children below fourteen. "Completed seventeen years" is not the statutory test.