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LEGAL SUPPLEMENT No. 2, 1 DECEMBER, 1967.

L.N. 189/57.

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(b) increase the hours of overtime employment allowed for an industrial undertaking under this regulation in a year to an aggregate not exceeding three 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 under- taking under this regulation 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 unforeseen emergency.

(8) For the purpose 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 Commissioner and subject to such conditions as he may by such authorization specify, be treated, for the purposes of reckoning hours of overtime em- ployment, as if it were employment in different undertakings.

(9) If the Commissioner is satisfied that the nature of the business carried on in any industrial undertaking involves the overtime employment of different women or young persons on different occa- sions to such an extent that the provisions of this regulation limiting overtime employment by reference to the industrial undertaking would be unreasonable or inappropriate, he may grant permission in writing that such undertaking may, in lieu of complying with the said provisions, comply with such provisions limit- ing overtime employment by reference to the indi- vidual woman or young person as may be specified in such consent:

Provided that no woman or young person shall be employed overtime in such undertaking for more than three hundred hours in any year.

(10) For the purposes of this regulation-

(a) the expression "overtime employment" means. in relation to any woman or young person, any period during which that woman or young person is at work in the industrial undertaking outside the period of employ ment fixed for the day for that woman or

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