Rights and privileges under other laws, etc., not affected .

(1) Nothing contained in this Act, shall affect any rights or privileges which any employee working in any beedi and cigar industrial premises is entitled to on the date on which this act comes into force, under any other law, contract, custom or usage, applicable to such beedi and cigar industrial premises, if such rights or privileges are more favourable to him than those to which he would be entitled under this Act. (2) Nothing in this Act shall take away the rights or privileges which an employee working in any beedi and cigar industrial premises will be entitled to under the Madras Shops and Establishments Act, 1947, or the Travancore-Cochin Shops and Establishments Act, 1125, if such rights or privileges are more favourable to him than those to which he would be entitled under this Act. (3) If any question arises whether the rights or privileges aforesaid are more favourable to any employee than those to which he would be entitled under this Act, or whether all or any of the provisions of this Act apply to a beedi and cigar industrial premises or to a person employed therein, it shall be decided by such officer as may be prescribed, and his decision thereon shall be final and shall not be liable to be questioned in any Court of Law.