Chapter V THEATRES OR OTHER PLACES OR PUBLIC AMUSEMENT OR ENTERTAINMENT

26. Notwithstanding anything contained in any other enactment for the time being in force, no theatre or other place of public amusement or entertainment shall, on any day, be closed later than twelve mid-night.

27. After the hour fixed for the closing of shops under section 11, no goods of the kind sold in a shop shall be sold in any theatre or other place of public amusement or entertainment except for consumption on premises.

51[28. (1) No employee shall be required or allowed to work in any theatre or other places of public amusement or entertainment for more than nine hours in any day.

1. (2) Any employee may be required or allowed to work in a theatre or other place of public amusement or entertainment for any period in excess of the limit fixed under sub-section (1), if such period does not exceed six hours in any week.]

52[29. The period of work of an employee in a theatre or other place of public amusement or entertainment each day shall be so fixed that no period of continuous work shall exceed five hours and that no employee shall be required or allowed to work for more than five hours before he has had an interval for rest of at least one hour :] 53 [Provided that, the State Government may, on an application made in that behalf by the employees concerned, permit the reduction of the interval for rest to half an hour.]

30. The spread-over of an employee in a theatre or other place of public amusement or entertainment shall not exceed eleven hours in any day : Provided that the 54[State]

Holidays in a week

1. (1) Every employee in a theatre or other place of public amusement or entertainment shall be given at least one day in a week as a holiday : Provided that nothing in this sub-section shall apply to an employee whose total period of employment in any week is less than six days. (2) It shall not be lawful for an employer to call an employee at, or for an employee to go to, his theatre or other place of public amusement or entertainment or any other place for any work in connection with the business of his theatre or place of public amusement or entertainment on a day on which such employee has a holiday. (3) No deduction shall be made from the wages of an employee in a theatre or other place of public amusement or entertainment on account of any holiday given to him under sub-section (1). If any employee is employed on a daily wage, he shall none the less be paid his daily wage for the holiday given to him., ,