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1911.] Factories. 147
(Chapter IV
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1911.] Factories. 147
(Chapter IV.—Hours of Employment and Holidays.)
(4) Where it is proved to the satisfaction of the Local Government—
(a) that any class of work not specified in Part A of Schedule I is of an urgent nature or is such as in the interests of efficiency is commonly performed while the main manufacturing process of the factory is discontinued, or
(b) that there is in any class of factories not specified in Part A of Schedule II any work which necessitates continuous production for technical reasons, or
(c) that any class of factories not specified in Part B of Schedule II supplies the public with articles of prime necessity which must be made or supplied every day, or
(d) that
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(d) that in any class of factories the work performed, by the exigencies of the trade or by its nature, cannot be carried on except at stated seasons, or at times dependent on the irregular action of natural forces, the Local Government may, subject to the control of the Governor General in Council, by notification in the local official Gazette, exempt,—
in case (a), such class of work,
in case (b), work of the nature described in such class of factories, and
in cases (c) and (d), such class of factories,
from the provisions of sub-section (1), on such conditions, if any, as it may impose.
(3) Nothing in sub-section (1) shall apply to any person employed on any work specified in Part A of Schedule I or in Part A of Schedule II or to any factory specified in Part B of Schedule II.
(2) Nothing in sub-section (1) shall apply to work on urgent repairs executed in railway or tramway workshops or running sheds or in engineering works or ship-repairing works.
22. (1) No person shall be employed in any factory on a Sunday, unless—
(a) he has had, or will have, a holiday for a whole day on one of the three days immediately preceding or succeeding the Sunday, and
(b) the manager of the factory has previous to the Sunday or the substituted day, whichever is earlier, given notice to the inspector of his intention so to employ the said person and of the day which is to be substituted and has at the same time affixed a notice to the same effect in the place mentioned in section 36.
Source: India Code