Revocation and replace ment of
regulations 9 and 94.
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ment fixed for the day for that woman or young person by a notice under regulation 10; and
(b) in reckoning the aggregate hours of overtime employment, account shall be taken only of any period during which any woman or young person is employed in that industrial undertaking beyond the maximum hours prescribed in sub-paragraph (a) of paragraph (1) of regulation 9 or either earlier or later. as the case may be, than the hours pre- scribed for the beginning and ending of the period of employment specified in sub-para- graph (b) of that paragraph.".
Regulations 9 and 9A of the principal regulations are revoked and replaced by the following-
*General conditions
as to haure of employ. meat of woman
and young persons.
9. (1) Subject to the provisions of this Part, no proprietor shall employ any woman or young person in any industrial undertaking unless the work. ing hours, the period of employment and the intervals for meals and rest for such woman or young person conform to the following conditions, namely
(a) the total hours worked shall-
(i) in the case of any young person under the age of sixteen, neither exceed eight in any day nor exceed forty-eight in any week:
or
(ii) in any other case, neither exceed eight hours and forty minutes in any day nor exceed fifty-two in any week:
(b) the period of employment shall-
(1) in the case of any young person under the age of sixteen, not exceed nine bours in any day and shall neither begin earlier than six o'clock in the morning nor end later than seven o'clock in the evening; and
(i) in any other case, not exceed ten hours and forty minutes in any day and shall neither begin earlier than six o'clock in the morning nor end later than eight o'clock in the evening.
(c) no woman or young person shall be required
or permitted to work continuously for
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of more than five hours without thereafter an interval of not less than half an hour for a meal or rest;
Provided that in the case of any young person under the age of sixteen years such interval shall not be less than one hour;
(d) except with the permission in writing of the Commissioner, the period of employment and the intervals allowed for meals and rest in accordance with the provisions of this regulation shall be the same for all women and young persons employed in such in- dustrial undertaking, except in the case of young persons who have not attained the age of sixteen years;
(e) no woman or young person shall be required or permitted to work during any such in- terval allowed for meals or rest.
(2) For the purposes of this regulation, employ. ment shall be deemed to be continuous unless inter- rupted by an interval of at least half an hour, or, in the case of young persons under the age of sixteen, one hour.
(3) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), the propric- tor of an industrial undertaking sball not, without the consent in writing of the Commissioner-
(a) increase the period of employment of women and young persons in the industrial under- taking beyond the period of employmenl fired for such women and young persons in a notice posted under paragraph (1) of regulation 10 and in effect on the 1st day of October 1967; or
(b) reduce the intervals for meals or rest allowed to such women and young persons below the intervals fixed in a notice posted under paragraph (1) of regulation 10 and in effect on the 1st day of October 1967,
(4) For the purposes of paragraph (3), any docu- ment purporting to be a copy of a notice posted under paragraph (1) of regulation 10 and in effect on the 1st day of October 1967 and purporting to be signed by the proprietor of an industrial undertaking or his duly authorized agent shall be admitted in evidence in