Section 51. Weekly hours

CHAPTER V WELFABE - f i ~ every factory- aciGies.-(1) ate and suitable facilities for washing shall be provided and the use of the yorkers therein; (PJ separate and adeq6ately screened facilities sha1.l be provided for thk $e of m'ale and female workers; 4 C. thk $e ; j ( o ) `LL` c9a.n. g- <: `2` The,Re&dd %esi ription of factories p/ `2` Of 4 ; j ( o ) 'such tacilities shall be conveniently aocessible and shall be kept c9a.n. The,Re&dd Government may, in respect of ang factory or class 'or %esi ription of factories . or of ally manufacturihg :process, prescribe standard8 Of ;adequate pnd suitable facilities for washing. 43. Facilities for storing and drying clothing.-?lhe-&ww&d Governillent &ay, in respect of any fictory or class or description of factories, nmke'rule~ kequiring the provision therein of .suitable places for keeping clothing not worn :during working hours and for the drgirlg.of wet clothing. , 44. Facilities for sitting.-(1) I n every factory suitable arrangement^ for shall be provided and maintnined tor all workeri obliged to work in &.: standiIlg psition, in order t.l~nt they may,- t,ake fld.ilsnt.age of any opport,unitkg .'$br rest hbjch mriy -occur in the cour6e of trbeir work. /. SLLL~?. -A* ff. 0 I. / 4 S d . . . C t P a 0 , d ~ 17 OF 19491 for all workers so engaged or (3) The in th. oEcial Oiinetts, process. process. 45. First-aid appliances) (1) There shall maintained so as to be readi or cupboards equipped with boxes or cupboards to be provi d every one hundred and fifty k - 45. First-aid appliances) (1) There shall ~n every factory be provided and maintained so as to be readi accessible during all working hours first-aid boxes or cupboards equipped with e pr-scribed contents, aid the nunlber of such boxes or cupboards to be provi d and maintained shall not be less than onc for every one hundred and fifty k wo+ers ord~nar~l? employed in the factory. room of in the charge make rules requiring `(2)` -?VitSoiit prejudice tb the generality of th&foregoing power; such rulea k may provide for\ $ \ - (a) the date by which such canteen shall be rovided; ccommodetion, furnitutw ( b ) the standards in respect of construction, and other equipqcnt of the canteen; . : . `c` s' (c) the foodstuffs to be served therein and the made therefor; arges which may be (d) the constitutioll of a managing committee for the canteen and ~epresentation of the workers in 'the management of the nteen; -/ { e ) ,the delegation to the Chief Inspector, = as may be prescribed, of the power `to` make * 47. Shelters, rest rooms and Gore than ,one hundred and fifty &bd suitable shelters or rest rooms tor drinking water, ivhece workers povided and maintained for the use of the workers: ?<T- Provided that any canteenasmaintained in accordance with the probsiona of Ieption 46 shall be regarded as part of the requirements of this sub-section: `P` Provided further t l ~ a t where a lunch rooin esists no worker shall e9t dny kod 'ln the work room. \> kod 'ln the work room. \> - [2) Tlle shelters or rest roonls or I~mch roonls to be p:ovided unde;,subc;-tion (1) shall be suflicielltlg lighted slid veuti!ated aald shs!l be ~?:~int&iilc$ `x` h cool 2nd clean condit;,oi:. ., I . /, LILA, r:y A a 195c . , .a `[ACT` 4x111. ect, of construction, accommodation, ers, lV.cst rooms and lunch rooms to \ eette, kmempt any fachry or class or ments of this section. in more than fifty women workers ed.and maintained a suitable room ge of `six` years cf sueh women. eommodation, shakl be adequately a clean and sanits;ry condition the care of children and infantsi Governmeilt mag: make rules- in respecb of construeequipment of rooms `t~` be providb , (c) requiring the provision ip any factory of free milk or refreshmen% of both for' such children; . (d) requiring that facilities shall be given in any fac%y for t h e essary intervals. ;g wherein five hundred or more er shall empioy in the fsc.k,ry may prescribe the duties, qualification to make rules to supIilem~nt this Chapter;-The b l Gov: rnake rules- (b) recjuiring in any ,factory or class or description of fa-tories ' th representatives of the workers elnployed in the factory shall ,be associat lrlith the management of the welfare arrangeinent,~ of the morlrcrs. CHAPTER.. VI. `OF` ADULTS \~'ORI<IXG HOURS `OF` 51. Weekly hours.-No adult nrorlier shall be rebuired or al'lowecl to mror Sn a factory for m o ? ~ , than forty-cight hours in any week. \ i 1 `I` I 1 1 . i I (b) the manager of the factory has, before the said day or t&eBsubsti/ tutecl day ucder clause (a), whichever is earlier,- I.' (i) delivered a notiuc at tho office of the Inbpttotor of h$ intention to require the worker to work ob the said day and of the Gay which is to t ~ e substituted, and x `,f` `(ii)` displayed a notice to that effect in the factory." 2 Pmvided that no substitution shall-be made which will r e e k in any worker working for more t'hari ten days consecutively without a holid$y for a whole day. (2) Kotices given under sub-section (1) mag be cancelle~j bg a notice delivered a t the office of the Inspector and a notice displayed iq'lhe factory not later than the day before the said day or the holiday to be cancelled, whichever is earlier. (3) Where, in accordailce with the provisio~is of sub-secfion (I), any xorker works on the said day and has had s holiday on o m of the threo days immediately before it, that said day ;hall, for the purpose of calculating his weekly hours of work, be included in the preceding week. 53. Compensatory holidays.-(I) Where, as a result of the passing of an `6` order or the making of a rule under tfie provisions of this Act exempting a factory or th3 workers therein from the provisions of segtion 52, a worker is deprived of any of the weekly holidays for which provision is made in sub-section ( I ) of that section, he shall be allowed, within the month in which the hoGdays were due to him or within the two months immediately followiilg that ~iiorith compensatory holidays of equal number to the h o l i d q y `6` ~ ~ ~ (2) The J&ewmw& . . Government mav Qrescri e the manner in which the holidiys for which provisian is made in' sbb-section ( I ) shall be allowed. 54. Daily hours.--Subject to the propisions of section 51, no adult workex shall be required or allowed tg work ia da factory for more than nine hours in ail7 day. - . & ! A 2 $ 55. Intervals for rmt.qThe periodsof `f-` adult workers in a factory each day shall be so fixed that no period shall exceed five hdurs and that no worker shall work for more than five hours before he has had an interval for rest of at least half an hour. ' I ' I 56. Spreadover.-The periods of $ark of an adult worker in a faotqry shall be so arranged that inclusive ;of his intervals for rest under section 55, they shall not spread over more th$n ten and a half hours in any day: Provided that the Chief Inspector may, for reasons to be specified in r\-rltiilg, increasc tlie spreadover to,'twelve hours.