1973 Ed.]
Factories and Industrial Undertakings Regulations
[CAP. 59
A 9
11. (1) Notwithstanding the provisions of this Part relating to hours of work and periods of employment, pressure of work in any industrial undertaking may be dealt with by the overtime em- ployment of women and young persons who have attained the age of sixteen years:
Provided that the overtime employment for the undertaking shall not exceed in the aggregate, calculated in accordance with the provisions of paragraph (10)(b), three hundred hours in any year or two hours in any day.
(2) The overtime employment of a woman or young person shall be subject to the following conditions—
(a) the total hours worked by the woman or young person
shall not exceed ten in any day; and
(b) the period of employment for the woman or young person shall not exceed twelve hours in any day and shall not extend outside the hours specified in regulation 9 for the beginning and ending of the period of employment except that it may extend to nine o'clock in the evening.
(3) Before employing in any industrial undertaking any woman or young person in overtime on any day, the proprietor thereof shall-
(a) cause a notice containing particulars of the hours of work and the intervals for meals or rest applicable to those women or young persons to be employed overtime to be posted and kept conspicuously posted at a place conveni- ently accessible to such women or young persons in the industrial undertaking until completion of such overtime; and
(b) if any part of the overtime to be worked will be in excess of the working hours specified in regulation 9(1)(a), or later than the hours prescribed for the ending of the period of employment specified in sub-paragraph (b) of that para- graph, deliver to the Commissioner and enter into a register, in the appropriate prescribed form, to be kept by the pro- prietor for such purpose, particulars of such overtime employment including particulars of any interval for a meal or rest allowed under paragraph (4).
(4) Where in any industrial undertaking a proprietor allows any women or young persons who are to be employed overtime on any day an interval for a meal or rest in addition to any interval fixed for the day by a notice posted under regulation 10 he may employ during that interval any women or young persons who are not to be employed overtime on that day, but save as aforesaid the provisions of these regulations relating to continuous employment and intervals for meals or rest shall apply to overtime employment in like manner as they apply to other employment.
[Subsidiary]
Overtime employment of women and young persons over sixteen.
L.N. 189/67, r. 13.
L.N. 221/73.