Chapter IL HOURS OF WORK

No employee in any establishment shall be required or allowed to work for more than eight hours in any day and forty-eight hours in any week; Provided that the total number of hours of works including overtime, shall not exceed ten hours in any day except on days of stock taking and preparation of accounts and the total number of hours of overtime shall not exceed fifty for any quarter, Every pound- keeper shall keep such registers and furnish such returns as the Government may, from time to time, direct.

Where an employee works in any establishment for more than eight hours in any day or for more’ than forty-eight hours in any week, he shall in respect of such overtime work be cntitled to wages at the rate of twice the ordinary rate of wages. When cattle are brought to a pound, the pound-keeper shall enter in his register : — (a) The number and description of the cattle. (b) The day and hour on and at which they were so brought, (c) The name and residence of the seizure and (d) The name of the residence of the owner, if known. The seizures shall affix his signature in the register, The pound-keeper shall give the seizure or his agent a copy of The entries aforesaid.

The period of work of an employee in an establishment each day shall be so fixed that no period shall exceed four hours and that no such person shall work for more that four hours before he has had an interval for rest of at least one hour. The pound-keeper shall take charge of feed and water the cattle, until they are disposed of as hereinafter directed.

The period of work of an employee in an establishment shall be so fixed that, inclusive of his interval for rest, they shall not spread over more than ten and half hours in any day. (1) The cultivator or occupier of any land or any person has acquired a right for the cultivation of the crop or produce on any land. Or the vandee or mortgagee of such crop of produce or any part thereof, may be seized, or cause to be seized, any cattle tresspassing on such land and doing damage thereto or to any crop or produce thereon, and send them or cause them to be sent within twenty-four hours to the pound established for the area in which the land is situated. (2) All officers of police shall, when acquired, aid in’ preventing. (a) Resistance to such seizure, and (b) Rescue from persons making such seizures.

(1) No establishment shall on any day be opened earlier than and closed later than such hours as may be fixed by a general or special order of the State Government made under sub-section (2). Provided that any customer who was being served or was waiting to be served in any establishment at the hour fixed for its closing may be served during the quarter of an hour immediately following such hour. (2) The State Government may by general or special order, fix the time at which any establishment or class of establishment shall be opened or closed in any local area. Persons in charge of public roads, pleasure grounds, plantations wherein common grazing grounds are available, canals, drainage, works tanks embankments, and the like and officers of police, officers employed by local authorities within their respective jurisdictions and such other officers as the Director may empower in this behalf, may seize, or cause to be seized, any cattle doing damage to such roads, ground, plantations, canals, drainage works, tanks, embankments and the like or the sides or slopes of such roads, canals, drainage works, tanks or embankments or found straying thereon and shall send them or cause them to be sent within twenty-four hours, to the nearest pound.

(1) Every shop shall remain entirely closed for one day in each week. (2) The State Government may, by notification require that in addition to one day refferred to in sub-section (1), every shop or any specified class or shops shall remain closed between such hours in the afternoon of such days in each week, as may be specified in the notification. Provided that when there are conducted in a shop two or more trades or business, any of which is of such character that, if it was the sole trade or business therein conducted, the provisions of this Act would not apply to that Shop, such shop-shall so far as the conduct of the trade or business is concerned be exempt from the operation of sub-section (1) Provided further that, when in any establishment for which the provision of this Act, applies two or more trades or business are conducted, one or more of which are usually conducted in a shop while the others are usually conducted in a commercial establishment, the provision of this Section shall not apply to the establishments so far as the conduct of the trades or business usually conducted in a commercial establishment are concerned. (3) No deduction on account of any closure of a shop under the provision of sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) shall be made from the wages of any employee of such Shop, (4) The day on which shop shall be closed in each week under the provisions of sub-section (1) shall be such day as may be specified by the employer in a notice, which shall be displayed in a conspicuous place in the shop. Provided that no employer shall, more often than once in every three months, alter the day so specified. (5) Every person employed in a commercial establishment shall be allowed as holidays at least one and a half day in each week Provided that, when there are conducted in a commercial establishment two or more trades or business any of which is of such character that, if it was the sole trade or business therein conducted, the provisions of this Act would not apply to that commercial establishment, such commercial establishment shall, so far as the conduct of the trade or business is concerned be exempted from the operation of this sub-section. (6) No deduction on account of any holiday allowed under the provisions of sub-section (5) shall be made from the wages of any person employed in such commercial establishment. (7) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Weekly Holidays Act, 1942, every person employed in an establishment for public entertainment or amusement shall be allowed as holidays at least one and a half day in each week. Provided that, when there are conducted in an establishment for public entertainment or amusement two or more trade or business, any of which is of such a character that, if it was the sole trade or business therein conducted, the provisions of this Act would not apply to that establishment, such establishment shall so far as the conduct of that trade or business is concerned be exempt from the operation of this sub-section. (8) No deduction on account of any holiday allowed under the provisions of sub-section (7) shall be made from the wages of any person employed in such establishment for public entertainment or amusement. (9) Every person employed in a shop commercial establishment for public entertainment or amusement shall be entitled to leave of absence for any days, he may select, not exceeding three in number in any one year for the purpose of attending ceremonies or performing functions or duties connected with or enjoined by his religion. (1) For every head of the cattle, impounded as aforesaid the pound-keeper shall levy a fine in accordance with the scale for the time being prescribed by the Director in this behalf by notification in the Gazette. "Different" scales may be prescribed for different local areas or for different localities within the same local areas and for different kinds of cattle. (2) Nowwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1) when it appears to the Director that in any local areas cattle are habitually allowed to tresspass on land and damage crops or other produce thereon, he may by notification in the Gazette, direct that for every head of cattle of any kind specified therein, which may be seized within such local area and impounded as aforesaid such amount of fine as may be specified by him in the said notification, not exceeding double the fine prescribed under sub-section (1) shall be levied. (3) All fines levied under this section or "section 12" shall be credited to the fund of the local authority or where there is no Town Committee, Village Council, in such manner as the Government may from time to time direct. (4) A list of the fines and rates of charge for feeding and watering cattle shall be exhibited in a conspicuous place on or near to every pound.