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Factories and Industrial Undertakings Regulations

[1973 Ed.

[Subsidiary]

(5) If the Commissioner is satisfied that overtime employment in any industrial undertaking of women or young persons, in accord- ance with the provisions of this regulation, in any process will prejudicially affect the health of such women or young persons, or any class of them, he may by notice in writing served upon the pro- prietor 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 employment or otherwise as he thinks fit.

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

(a) increase for women or young persons, employed 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 exceed- ing 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 exceeding three hundred and fifty hours.

(7) The Commissioner may authorize in writing the increase of the aggregate number of hours of overtime employment allowed for an industrial undertaking 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 employment of women or young persons in different parts of any industrial under- taking 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 employment, as if it were employment in different under- takings.

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