1988 Ed.]
Women and Young Persons (Industry) Regulations
[CAP. 57
C5
[Subsidiary]
(a) fixing within the limits prescribed in regulation 8 and, in the case of shift work, regulation 11, the period of employment for each day of the week for women and young persons employed in the industrial undertaking;
(b) fixing within the limits prescribed in regulation 8 and, in the case of shift work, regulation 11, the intervals allowed for meals and rest for women and young persons employed in the industrial undertaking; and
(c) specifying the rest day on which women and young persons shall not be employed in the industrial undertaking or, if the rest day is not the same for every woman or young person so employed, specifying that fact.
(2) Different periods of employment and different intervals for meals or rest may be fixed for different days of the week.
(3) No employer shall change, or cause or permit to be changed, any period of employment or interval for meals or rest fixed by notice posted up under paragraph (1), or fixed by a notice deemed, by virtue of this paragraph, to have been posted up under paragraph (1), unless, not less than 48 hours before any change of any such period of employment or any such interval for meals or rest is to come into operation, he has served on the Commissioner a notice in writing of intention to make such change and has posted up, in the manner prescribed by paragraph (1), a notice in the form prescribed for the purposes of that paragraph, which shall, in addition to specifying the new period of employment or new interval for meals or rest, or both, as the case may be, and the other matters required by paragraph (1), specify the date on which such change is to commence, and, upon the coming into operation of such change, the notice posted up in accordance with this paragraph shall be deemed to have been posted up under paragraph (1):
Provided that no such change shall, in any event, be made more often than once in every 3 months, unless for special cause allowed in writing by the Commissioner.
(4) A copy signed by the employer or by his duly authorized agent of any notice posted up under paragraph (1) shall be sent not later than the day of posting up to the Commissioner.
(5) Subject to the provisions of these regulations with respect to overtime, no woman or young person shall be employed otherwise than in accordance with the period of employment fixed in a notice posted up under paragraph (1).
(6) Any document purporting to be a copy of a notice posted up under paragraph (1) and purporting to be signed by the employer or his duly authorized agent shall be admitted in evidence in proceedings before any court on its production by a public officer without further proof, and-
(a) until the contrary is proved, the court before which such document is produced shall presume-
(i) that the document is a true copy of a notice posted up under paragraph (1); and
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