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Notes (vi) Notice of Periods of Work for Adult Workers: A notice in the prescribed form containing an
abstract of Act and rules framed thereunder, the name and address of Inspector and name
and address of Certifying Surgeon is required to be displayed in the factory. The notice
so displayed should indicate the periods of work for which an adult worker is required
to work everyday in a factory. The notice shall be in English language and a language
understood by the majority of workers.

Notes The intention behind the displaying of notice is that no worker is employed to
work in contravention of Sections 51, 52, 54, 55, 56 and 58 of the Act.

(vii) Section 66: Act provides for further restrictions on employment of women. Thus no
exemption from the provisions of sec. 54 relative to daily hours of work may be granted
in respect of any woman. No woman shall be required or allowed to work in any factory
except between the hours of 6 a.m. and 7 p.m.; except when the state Govt. varies the limits
laid down. So however there is absolute prohibition on employment of woman between
the hours of 10 p.m. and 5 a.m.

(viii) Power to Make Exempting Rules and Orders: The State Government has been empowered
to make rules for granting exemption from the restrictions imposed with regard to working
hours of adults as enumerated above on such conditions as it may deem necessary.
4.5.2 Employment of Women

(i) Prohibition of Employment of Women and children Near Cotton Openers: No woman or
child shall be employed in any part of a factory for pressing cotton in which a cotton-
opener is at work:
Provided that if the feed-end of a cotton-opener is in a room separated from the delivery
end by a partition extending to the roof or to such height as the Inspector may in any
particular case specify in writing, women and children may be employed on the side of the
partition where the feed-end is situated.
(ii) Restrictions on Employment of Women: The provisions of this shall, in their application to
women in factories, be supplemented by the following further restrictions, namely
(a) no exemption from the provisions of section 54 may be granted in respect of any
women;
(b) no woman shall be required or allowed to work in any factory except between the
hours of 6 A.M. and 7 P.M.: Provided that the State Government may, by notification
in the Official Gazette, in respect of any factory or group or class or description of
factories, vary the limits laid down in clause (b), but so that no such variation shall
authorize the employment of any woman between the hours of 10 P.M. and 5 A.M.
(c) there shall be no change of shifts except after a weekly holiday or any other
holiday.
The State Government may make rules providing for the exemption from the restrictions set out
in sub-section (1), to such extent and subject to such conditions as it may prescribe, of women
working in fish curing or fish-canning factories, where the employment of women beyond the
hours specified in the said restrictions is necessary to prevent damage to or deterioration in, any
raw material. The rules made under sub-section (2) shall remain in force for not more than three
years at a time.

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