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56. The concept of a maximum age for ceasing compulsory secondary education does not exist. General secondary education (forms 11 and 12) is compulsory (Education Act).
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| Minimum age of employment |
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343. On 1 January 2000 the new Labour Act entered into force. Like earlier legislation, it sets out specific guarantees and provides for measures to protect minors. Specifically, individual labour contracts may be concluded with persons who have reached the age of 16. At the same time, it is permitted to conclude individual labour contracts with persons who have reached the age of 15 or 14, but with the consent of their parents or guardians. This consent must be recorded in writing, and the work must be accomplished during spare time from studying, must not be harmful to health and must not disrupt the learning process. The law also bans the engagement of persons who have not reached the age of 18 for heavy physical work and work
involving unhealthy or dangerous working conditions, and imposes various other restrictions. Workers aged between 14 and 16 may not work for more than 24 hours per week, and those aged between 16 and 18 are limited to 36 hours per week.
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| Minimum age for marriage |
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58. The minimum age of marriage for men and women is set at 18. If valid grounds exist, the civil registration authorities in the place where the marriage is to be registered may lower this age by up to two years (Marriage and the Family Act, art. 10).
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| Minimum age for criminal responsibility |
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61. The minimum age for criminal prosecution is 16, or 14 in the case of offences representing a serious danger to society, as listed in the legislation (Criminal Code, art. 15)...
315. All persons who have reached the age of 16 at the time any type of offence is committed bear overall criminal responsibility for the offence. For specific types of offence - murder, premeditated serious harm to a person's health, premeditated harm of medium gravity to a person's health with aggravating circumstances, rape, acts of violence of a sexual nature, kidnapping, theft, robbery, assault with intent to rob, extortion, unlawful seizure of a car or other means of transport without intent to hijack and with aggravating circumstances, premeditated destruction of or damage to property with aggravating circumstances, hostage-taking, knowingly providing false information concerning an act of terrorism, acquisition of weapons, munitions, explosives or explosive devices by theft or extortion, hooliganism with aggravating circumstances, vandalism, acquisition of narcotic or psychotropic substances by theft or extortion, violation of corpses or their places of burial with aggravating circumstances, or putting means of transport or communication routes out of commission in a premeditated manner - the age of criminal responsibility is 14.
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