Revocation And replace- ment of regulations
and 9A
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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 pre- scribed in sub-peragraph (a) of paragraph (1) of regulation 9 or either or later, as the case may be, than the hours prescribed for the beginning and ending of the period of employment specified in sub-paragraph (b) of that paragraph.”.
12. Regulations 9 and 9A of the principal regulations are revoked and replaced by the following-
"General conditions
as to hours of employ- ment of women agd young perrods.
9. (1) Subject to the provisions of this Part. no proprietor shall employ any woman or young per- son in any industrial undertaking unless the working bours, the period of employment and the intervals for meals and rest for such woman or young person con- form to the following conditions, namely-
(a) the total hours worked shall neither exceed eight in any day nor exceed forty-eight in any week;
(b) the period of employment shall-
(0) in the case of a young person under the age of sixteen, not exceed nine hours 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
(1) in any other case, not exceed ten hours 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 a spell 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;
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(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 indus- trial 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 interval allowed for meals or rest.
(2) For the purposes of this regulations, 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 proprietor of an industrial undertaking shall 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 employment fixed 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
(6) reduce the intervals for meals or rest allowed to such women and young persons below the intervals fixed in a notice posted under para- graph (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 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.........
✪ that the document is a true copy of a notice posted under paragraph (1) of regula-