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23. In Lithuania, very often the notions of "children of
pre-school age (1-6 years of age) and "children of school age"
are used. Article 41 of the Constitution of the Republic of Lithuania established compulsory education for persons under the age of
16. The same is established in article 21 of the Law on
Education and Resolution No. 889 of 4 August 1997
of the Government of the Republic of Lithuania "On the Procedure
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28. Article 4 of the Law on Employment
Contract of the Republic of Lithuania, singles out minors
below 14 years of age, minors from 14 to 16 years of age, and
under-aged persons who are 16 years of age and older. Said law
stipulates that permanent residents of Lithuania who are 16
years of age may be legally employed. Only those persons who
have reached the age of 14 may be employed for the types of
work listed in a special document. Under-aged persons from 14
to 16 years of age may be employed if that does not interfere
with their school studies and only with a written consent
submitted by school authorities, or one of the parents, or
another person who is bringing up the child. Article 35 of the
same law contains restrictions on the termination of an
employment contract with pregnant women or women who have
children below 3 years of age.
29. Sub-chapter 1, chapter 6, of the Law on
Labour Protection of the Republic of Lithuania regulates the
work of minors. In this law minors are considered to be
persons from 14 to 18 years of age. Article 58 contains
provisions similar to those of article 4 of the Law on
Employment Contract; article 59 prohibits persons under 18
years of age performing hazardous work; article 60 provides
for the rest time for persons under 16 years of age and
persons from 16 to 18 years of age; article 61 prohibits
persons under 18 years of age working at night, on days off,
on holidays, and overtime; article 41 provides for shortened
work hours for persons from 14 to 16 and from 16 and 18 years
of age.
252.
Employers must draw up and keep a list of employees under 18
and guarantee safe working conditions for them. This list must be
made available to a labour inspector upon request. By resolution No.
1055 of 11 September 1996, the Government of the Republic of Lithuania
approved conditions of work and employment procedures for minors from
13 to 14, from 14 to 16 and from 16
to 18 years of age, and a
list of jobs that persons under 18 are
not allowed to perform and the hazardous elements that these
persons have to be protected from. The Government
also approved a list of jobs that may be performed by
minors from 13 to 14 years of
age.
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285. Article 11 of the Criminal Code establishes that
persons who were 16 years of age prior to committing a crime
are subject to criminal responsibility. However, for some
crimes persons are held liable from the age of 14. These are
malicious actions which may cause a train accident, murder,
malicious injury which had an adverse effect on health, rape, malicious hooliganism, possession of drugs,
firearms, ammunition or explosives, theft, robbery, malicious destruction of
or damage to property under aggravating circumstances. Criminal proceedings may not be instituted
or, if instituted, must be terminated against a person, who
prior to the moment of committing
an offence posing danger to the public, was below
the age of 16 (in some cases
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