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From CRC/C/93/Add. 6 of 17 July 2003
44. Under the Education Act, children remain in general education until the age of 16. In article 18, paragraph 7, the Act states that basic general education is compulsory and that children must remain in basic general education until the age of 16, unless they have completed the basic general education course earlier.
From CRC/C/28/Add. 9 of 30 July 1997
10. Under article 35 of the Constitution,
all citizens have the right to education. Secondary education
in State educational establishments is free of charge.
A minimum of eight years of attendance at a general-education
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From CRC/C/93/Add. 6 of 17 July 2003
45. In article 198, the Code of Labour Legislation sets the minimum age for employment at 16. In exceptional cases, however, children aged 15 may be taken into employment (Children's Rights Act, art. 19).
46. Minors (persons under the age of 18) have the same rights as persons of majority age in their labour relations and, with regard to job security, working hours, leave and certain other employment conditions, enjoy certain advantages established by the country's labour legislation (Code of Labour Legislation, art. 199).
47. The employment of persons under the age of 18 in heavy labour or in jobs involving hazardous or harmful working conditions, or underground, is prohibited.
From CRC/C/28/Add. 9 of 30 July 1997
84. […] Under the Labour Code, children under the age of 16
are not allowed to work. Fifteen-year-olds are taken on only
in exceptional circumstances. Hiring youths under the age of
18 for work in particularly arduous, dangerous or underground
occupations is prohibited. Children taking jobs before the age
of 18 are subject to periodic medical checks. Night work, work
outside school hours, and work on feast days and holidays is
prohibited.
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From CRC/C/93/Add. 6 of 17 July 2003
48. Article 15 of the Marriage and Family Code sets the marriageable age for men at 18 and for women at 17. To be recognized, marriages in Armenia must be registered with the civil registration authorities. In cases where, under law, persons under the age of 18 are permitted to marry, such persons acquire full legal capacity from the moment of entry into marriage. Legal capacity acquired as a result of marriage is fully retained even in the event of the divorce of a minor spouse.
49. To protect the interests of a person below the marriageable age, that person's marriage may be declared invalid in legal proceedings brought by parents, tutors, guardians, the authorities responsible for tutelage and guardianship, and also by persons who have contracted such marriages provided they have reached the age of 18. In all cases, the tutelage and guardianship authorities must take part in the proceedings. When declaring a marriage invalid, the court may decide to revoke the full legal capacity of a minor spouse with effect from the moment the court takes its decision on that spouse's legal capacity.
From CRC/C/28/Add. 9 of 30 July 1997
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From CRC/C/93/Add. 6 of 17 July 2003
52. The minimum age of criminal liability in Armenia is 16. Under article 10 of the Criminal Code, persons who, at the moment of commission of an offence, have attained the age of 16 may be held criminally liable. Children aged 14-16 committing offences may incur criminal liability only for murder (arts. 99-103), the premeditated infliction of bodily harm and damage to health (arts. 105-108 and 109, part 1), rape (art. 112), assault with intent to rob (art. 88), theft (art. 86), robbery (art. 87), aggravated extortion (art. 94, part 3), riotous conduct and aggravated riotous conduct (art. 222, parts 2 and 3), the deliberate destruction or damaging of government or public property or the private property of citizens, with further serious consequences (art. 96, part 2), the theft of narcotic substances (art. 229), the theft of firearms, ammunition or explosives (art. 232) and the deliberate performance of acts capable of causing a train crash (art. 81).
From CRC/C/28/Add. 9 of 30 July 1997
11. The minimum age of criminal liability is
16. Article 10 of the Criminal Code provides that criminal
liability may be incurred by persons aged at least 16 at the
time of committing a crime. Persons who commit a crime when
aged between 14 and 16 may be held criminally liable only in
cases of: murder; grievous bodily harm; rape; robbery with
violence or the threat of violence endangering human life;
theft; malicious or particularly malicious hooliganism;
destruction of, or damage to State, collective or citizens'
personal property having serious consequences; seizure of
weapons, munitions, narcotics or explosives; commission of
deliberate acts capable of causing a train crash.
11. The minimum age of criminal liability is
16. Article 10 of the Criminal Code provides that criminal
liability may be incurred by persons aged at least 16 at the
time of committing a crime. Persons who commit a crime when
aged between 14 and 16 may be held criminally liable only in
cases of: murder; grievous bodily harm; rape; robbery with
violence or the threat of violence endangering human life;
theft; malicious or particularly malicious hooliganism;
destruction of, or damage to State, collective or citizens'
personal property having serious consequences; seizure of
weapons, munitions, narcotics or explosives; commission of
deliberate acts capable of causing a train crash.
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