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153: Duty of employers to provide necessaries
or “Employers must give young workers food, clothes, and a place to stay, or they could go to jail.”
You could also call this:

“It's against the law to leave a young child alone or in a dangerous place.”

If you leave a child who is younger than 6 years old alone without proper care, or you put them in a dangerous situation, you are breaking the law. This is called abandoning or exposing a child. If you do this, you could go to prison for up to 7 years. The law wants to make sure that young children are kept safe and looked after.

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or “If you do something dangerous, even if it's legal, you must be careful and know what you're doing.”
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Part 8 Crimes against the person
Duties tending to the preservation of life

154Abandoning child under 6

  1. Every one is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 7 years who unlawfully abandons or exposes any child under the age of 6 years.

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  • 1908 No 32 s 169