(1) The Employment of Children Act, 1938 (26 of 1938) is hereby repealed.
(2) Notwithstanding such repeal, anything done or any action taken or purported to have been done or taken under the Act so repealed shall, in so far as it is not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, be deemed to have been done or taken under the corresponding provisions of this Act.
23. Amendment of Act 11 of 1948. In section 2 of the Minimum Wages Act, 1948,--
(i) for clause (a), the following clauses shall be substituted, namely:--
(a) "adolescent" means a person who has completed his fourteenth year of age but has not completed his eighteenth year;
(aa) "adult" means a person who has completed his eighteenth year of age;
(ii) after clause (b), the following clause shall be inserted, namely:--
(bb) "child" means a person who has not completed his fourteenth year of age;'.