Minimum age

Minimum Age The legal minimum age for employment is 15 years of age (Section 44).

(a) A lower minimum age

MINIMUM AGE FOR CONTRACTING MARRIAGE

Currently, the minimum age was 21 for voting, 18 and 16 for marriage, and 16 for criminal responsibility.

The early marriageable age, the minimum age for employment and the age of criminal responsibility are matters of concern.

21. The minimum age for recruitment should be set at 18 years unless national legislation stipulates a lower age.

The minimum age for admission to employment shall not be lower than that fixed for termination of compulsory schooling and in any case no lower than 15 years or 14 as a transitional stage for underdeveloped countries.

The minimum age of criminal responsibility is often too low.

Ibid., sect.

Lowest seniority (annual income) DKr 198,427

Lowest seniority (annual income) DKr 186,033

Minimum Marital Age

45. The Committee is concerned about the failure to provide for a minimum age for sexual consent and the absence of harmonization between the age for the completion of compulsory schooling and the minimum age for employment.

689. The Committee is concerned about the failure to provide for a minimum age for sexual consent and the absence of harmonization between the age for the completion of compulsory schooling and the minimum age for employment.

Lowest seniority (annual income) DKr 190,000 (approx.)

150. The minimum age for taking a job was examined earlier.

(b) The differential minimum age of marriage of women and men

These ages are consequently the minimum allowed to have sex as a married couple.

There is no minimum age for retirement but the age for optional retirement remains 55 years.

ILO Minimum Age Convention, 1973 (No. 138).

(i) Tunisia and the minimum age for admission to employment

267. The minimum age for admission to paid employment is 15 years.

It is also concerned that the minimum age of marriage for girls, fixed by law at 17, may be reduced by the religious courts, and that no minimum age is fixed for men.

Gabon had ratified the International Labour Organization (ILO) Minimum Age Convention No. 138, which set the minimum age for employment at 14, but its own legislation improved upon that by making 16 the minimum age.

198. Tunisia has ratified Convention No. 138, 1973, as it previously ratified Conventions No. 58, the Minimum Age (Sea) Convention (Revised), 1936 No. 59, the Minimum Age (Industry) Convention (Revised), 1937 No. 112, the Minimum Age (Fishermen) Convention, 1959 and No. 123, the Minimum Age (Underground Work) Convention, 1965.

While noting that the State party has raised the minimum age of criminal responsibility in the Hong Kong SAR, the Committee remains concerned that the age of 10 years is too low.

Convention concerning Minimum Age for Admission to Employment (No. 138)

In particular, the Committee is concerned at the absence of legislation regulating child labour providing for a minimum age for employment, the absence of a clear definition of the minimum age for criminal responsibility, the low minimum age for sexual consent, the lack of harmonization between the different ages of sexual consent among the four States, and the lack of legislation on neglect, abuse and sexual exploitation.

The Committee is also concerned at the low minimum age of access to employment, set at 12.

(g) A minimum age under which the child may not be tried shall be determined.

The State party is urged to raise the minimum age of criminal responsibility.

b) men and women are protected by the minimum age requirement for marriage

The marriage age in Benin was 18 for both girls and boys.

We believe that age 18 should be the earliest age of recruitment into armed forces.

Under international law, however, the minimum age for military service was 15.

Similarly, the low age of marriage for girls, which is different from that for boys, is, in the Committee apos s view, also incompatible with the principles and provisions of the Convention.

In particular, the Committee is concerned at the low minimum age of criminal responsibility.

In particular, the Committee is concerned at the low minimum age of criminal responsibility.

The State party should raise the minimum age of marriage and ensure that it is respected in practice.

299. With a view to harmonizing the definition of the child with the Convention, the Committee recommends that the minimum age for marriage be the same for girls and boys and that the age of end of compulsory education be the same as the minimum age for employment.

943. With a view to harmonizing the definition of the child with the Convention, the Committee recommends that the minimum age for marriage be the same for girls and boys and that the age of end of compulsory education be the same as the minimum age for employment.

221. The lower age limit for being considered as unemployed is 18 (with exceptions), while the upper age limit is 60 for women and 65 for men.

(c) Lastly, the minimum age is lowered to 13 in non agricultural and non industrial activities, i.e. commercial or craft activities.

There are no statutes establishing a minimum age for consent to sexual relations.