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Appendix III

Article 131 - Exceptions

The prohibitions prescribed in the preceding Article shall not apply in any of the following cases:

(a) In cases of actual or impending emergencies caused

by serious accident, fire, flood, typhoon, earthquake, epidemie or other disaster or calamity, to prevent loss of life or property, or in case of force majeure or imminent danger to public safety;

(b) In case of urgent work to be performed on machineries,

equipment or installations, to avoid serious loss which the employer would otherwise suffer;

(c) Where the work is necessary to prevent serious loss

of perishable goods;

(a) Where the woman employee holds a responsible position of managerial or technical nature, or where the woman employee has been engaged to provide health and welfare services;

(e) where the nature of the work require the manual skill

and dexterity of female workers and the same cannot be performed with equal efficiency by male workers;

(f) Where the woman employee is an immediate member of the family operating the establishment or undertaking; and

(g) Under other analogous cases exempted by the Secretary

of Labour in appropriate regulations.

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SINGAPORE

Employment Act, 1968

Section 48

(1) Except as provided in subsection (3) of this section, no female workman shall be employed in any kind of labour during the night or any part thereof.

(2)

For the purpose of this section, "night" means a period of not less than eleven consecutive hours including the interval between eleven o'clock in the evening and six o'clock in the morning or such other interval of seven hours as the Minister may in respect of female workmen and young persons prescribe by notification in the Gazette for any particular industrial undertaking or branch thereof or any kind of labour.

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