The new legislation prunes the list of “hazardous occupations” from 83 in the previous law to only three — mining, inflammable substances and hazardous processes as defined in the Factories Act...Several MPs and activists have pointed out the ambiguous definition of “family enterprises”. Even though miningremains a “hazardous occupation”, it was pointed out that most mica mining across key provinces was performed by largely small enterprises run by extended family enterprises engaging children, while traders formed the key link to buyers of mica, domestic and international...Several law makers believe that the employment of children in family enterprises is a loophole, which provides an escape route to all those employing children in mining and that the government does not have the means to verify if every child employed forms part of the family owning the enterprise.