Current laws are in compliance with the ILO’s Minimum Age Convention of 1973. The 2004 Employment and Labour Relations Act states that: · No person shall employ a child under the age of fourteen years · A child of fourteen years may only be employed to do light work which is not likely to be harmful to the child’s health and development. · No person shall employ a person under the age of 18 years in hazardous form of work for example in a mine, factory or a crew on a ship · It is prohibited to employ children under the age of 18 years to night work. In Zanzibar, labour laws are slightly different. They state that no child under 12 shall be employed except for light work; no person under the age of 18 years shall be employed in any employment that is injurious to his health, dangerous or immoral; a child under the age of 16 years shall not be employed in a mine. The Zanzibar Constitution has set the age for paid employment at 18 years. The law governing Child labour is the Employment of Children, Young Persons and Adolescent (Restriction) Decree and a Labour Act of 1997. Zanzibar has reviewing its labour laws under the auspices of the SLAREA Project being implemented in collaboration with ILO. The Government in collaboration with partners has been implementing the Time Bound Programme (TBP) pilot project against the worst forms of child labour since 2002. To implement this Government has established a National Inter-Sectoral Coordination Committee to oversee and coordinate intervention activities against child labour in general, and the worst forms of child labour in particular. The Committee is assisted by four other sub-Committees which focus on commercial agriculture and mining; domestic service and prostitution; education and technical matters; and monitoring and coordination. At a local level, the Government has formed District Child Labour SubCommittees and appointed District Child Labour Coordinators to monitor and coordinate activities at this level. The objectives of the TBP are to combat the worst forms of child labour through: preventing children entering the worst forms of child labour; withdrawing children from 65