www.Droit-Afrique.com Mali as well as loading and offloading companies. The same prohibition shall apply to business premises, liberal professions, national or ministerial offices, civil society organisations, trade unions and all kinds of associations. Art.D.189-17.- In industries in which the work involves substances that can very quickly change form, when an instance of unforeseeable or unpreventable force majeure, with no periodic character, impedes the normal functioning of the institution, the provisions of article D.189-17 herein may be temporarily waived for male children over sixteen, in order to prevent imminent accidents or fix accidents that have occurred. However, heads of institution shall have to inform the labour inspector to use the waiver provided for herein above. Art.D.189-18.- In the industries enumerated herein after, as concerns male children aged over sixteen and employed in the indispensable works named herein below and before, due to their nature, and which have to go on night and day, the provisions of article D 189- 17 may be waived, with an special authorisation issued by the labour inspector : • 1° iron and steel plants: works where reverberatory or regenerative furnaces are used and sheet as well as iron wire are galvanised (excluding prickling plants), to help with ancillary work for refining, rolling, peening and wire-drawing, mould preparation for cast objects moulded during initial melting ; • 2° glassware : to hand tools, help in blowing and moulding, carry into annealing furnaces, withdraw objects from there, subject to compliance with the prescriptions and prohibitions provided for in articles D 189- 28, D 189-32 and in tables A and B attached; • 3° paper mills: to help machine attendants, cut, sort, and prepare paper subject to compliance with the prescriptions and prohibitions provided for in article D 189-32 and in tables A and B attached; • 4° sugar bush where unrefined sugar is processed: to wash, sort sugar cane, operate the juice or water valves, watch filters, help with diffusion batteries, saw fabrics, wash appliances and workshops . Art.D.189-19.- In factories, plants, mines, quarries, constructions sites, workshops and their appurtenances, children may not be assigned to work on recognised or public holidays, even to arrange workshops. However, the provisions of the sub paragraph may be waived in non-stop operations, as concerns male children who will have to be given a compensatory day of rest. Art.D.189-20.- Both male and female children in apprenticeship may not be assigned any work in their respective professions. However, they may be assigned, following agreements or in accordance with standard practice, to take part, on Sundays, in works to arrange the workshop. This work may however extend beyond 10 a.m. Art.D.189-10.- It shall be prohibited to employ children to work in the making, handling and sale of writings, printed material, posters, drawings, engravings, paintings, emblems, images or another objects whose sale sale, offer, exhibition, posting or distribution can negatively affect their morality or have a negative influence on them. It shall also be prohibited to employ children to do any kind of work in premises where the works, spelt out in the precious sub paragraph, are carried out. Art.D.189-22.- The heads of institutions where children are employed must ensure that proper morals are maintained and public decency complied with. Art.D.189-23.- Children may not carry, pull or push, both inside and outside their usual place of work, loads that weigh more than the following : 1) load bearing : • boys aged 14 to 16 yrs : 15 kg • boys aged 16 to 18 yrs : 20 kg • girls aged 14 to 16 yrs: 8 kg • girls aged 16 to 18 yrs: 10 kg 2) transportation using small wagons moving on rail tracks : • boys aged 14,15, 16 or 17 yrs : 500 kg, vehicle included ; • girls aged below 16 yrs : 150Kg, including the vehicle. Implementing Decree of the Labour Code 24/29