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(3) Before employing in any industrial under- taking any woman or young person in overtime on any day, the proprietor thereof shall—

(4) 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 kept conspicuously posted at a place conveniently 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 sub-paragraph (a) of paragraph (1) of regulation & or either earlier or later, as the case may be, than the hours prescribed for the beginning and ending of the period of employ ment specified in sub-paragraph (b) of that paragraph, send to the Commissioner and enter in a register to be kept by the proprietor 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 pro- prietor 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 9, 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 em- ployment in like manner as they apply to other employment.

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(5) If the Commissioner is satisfied that overtime employment in any industrial undertaking of women or young persons, in accordance with the provisions of this regulation, in any process will prejudicially affect

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the health of such women or young persons, or any class of them, he may by notice in writing served upon the proprietor thereof either prohibit the overtime employment in that process of such women or young persons, or such class of them, or make such further restrictions as to the amount of such overtime employ- ment or otherwise as he thinks fit.

(6) Where the Commissioner is satisfied that work in any class or description of industrial under- taking is subject to seasonal or other special pressure, he may by order published in the Gaselle as respects any class or description of undertaking-

(a) increase for women or young persons, employ- ed in any specified process, during any period of such pressure, the hours of work and the period of employment allowed in a day under this regulation, so, however, that the increase shall only take place in such number of weeks, not exceeding eight in any year, as may be specified in the order;

(b) increase the hours of overtime employment allowed for an Industrial undertaking under this regulation in a year to an aggregate not cxceeding one hundred and fifty hours.

(7) The Commissioner may authorize in writing the increase of the aggregate number of hours of over- time employment allowed for an industrial undertaking under this regulation in any week or the number of weeks in any year in which overtime can take place as respects any particular undertaking, if he is satisfied that the increase is necessary by reason of unforeseen pressure of work due to sudden orders, or by reason of a breakdown of machinery or plant or other unfore- seen emergency.

(8) For the purposes of this regulation, the em- ployment of women or young persons in different parts of any industrial undertaking or the employment of different sets of women or young persons in different processes may, with the authority in writing of the