Specific exemptions from the child labor requirements of the Act are
provided for:
(a) Employment of children in agriculture outside of school hours
for the school district where they live while so employed;
(b) Employment of employees engaged in the delivery of newspapers to
the consumer;
(c) Employment of children as actors or performers in motion
pictures or in theatrical, radio, or television productions; and
(d) Employment by a parent or a person standing in a parent's place
of his own child or a child in his custody under the age of sixteen
years in any occupation other than the following:
(1) Manufacturing,
(2) Mining,
(3) An occupation found by the Secretary to be particularly
hazardous for the employment of children between the ages of sixteen and
eighteen years or detrimental to their health or well-being.
In his interpretations of these provisions, the Secretary will be guided
by the principle that such exemptions should be narrowly construed and
their application limited to those employees who are plainly and
unmistakably within their terms. Thus, the fact that a child's
occupation involves the performance of work which is considered exempt
from the child labor provisions will not relieve his employer from the
requirements of section 12(c) or the producer, manufacturer, or dealer
from the requirements of section 12(a) if, during the course of his
employment, the child spends any part of his time doing work which is
covered but not so exempt.