At What Age?...
...are school-children employed, married and taken to court?
Grenada
Source: CRC/C/3 Add. 55 Date: 28 November 1997
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School-leaving age

31. Under the Education (Compulsory at Primary Schools) Act, chapter 85, the compulsory school age in Grenada is between from 6 to 14 years. Parents are also bound by this Act to ensure their child's regular attendance at school. If parents fail to do this, they are liable to a fine of EC$ 15 on the first offence and EC$ 25 for any subsequent offence.

Minimum age of employment

32. section 8 (8) of the Employment of Women, Young Persons and Children Act, chapter 90, prohibits the employment of children below the age of 14 in any undertaking or work whatsoever, whether industrial or otherwise, during school hours, or for more than two hours on any given school day. There is an exception, however, with regard to the employment of children under 14 in industrial undertakings in which only family members are employed.

Minimum age for marriage

29. There is no legislation that revokes the common law age of attainment of majority of 21 years. In cases such as marriage and the making of a will, parental consent is required if the person in question is below the age of 21 years.

Minimum age for criminal responsibility

39. A child is presumed unable to infringe the penal law below the age 7 years (section 50 (1), chapter 76, Criminal Code). Further, subsection (2) gives rise to a range of ages between 7 and 12 within which a child may or may not be considered to have the capacity to infringe the law.