(1) Subject to other provisions of this Act, no employee in any establishment shall be required or allowed to work therein for more than eight hours in any day and forty-eight hours in any week.
(2) Any employee may be required or allowed to work in an establishment for any period in excess of the limit fixed under sub-section (1), on payment of over-time wages, so however that the maximum period of such excess shall be six hours in any week.
(3) For the purposes of stock-taking and preparation of accounts, an employer may, with the previous intimation to the Inspector, require or allow any employee to work in an establishment for not more than any fifteen days in a year, in excess of the period fixed in sub-section (1), on payment of overtime wages, so however that the excess period shall not, in aggregate, exceed twenty-four hours.