(1) For the purposes of sub-section (5) of section 6, the minimum rate of wages shall be fixed on the day basis keeping in view the following criteria, namely:-
(i) the standard working class family which includes a spouse and two children apart from the earning employee that is an equivalent of three adult consumption units;
(ii) a net intake of two thousand seven hundred calories per day per consumption unit;
(iii) sixty six meters cloth per year per standard working class family;
(iv) housing rent expenditure to constitute ten percent. of food and clothing expenditure;
(v) fuel, electricity and other miscellaneous items of expenditure to constitute twenty percent. of minimum 5 wage; and
(vi) expenditure for children education, medical requirement, recreation and expenditure on contingencies to constitute twenty five percent. of minimum wage.
(2) When the rate of wages for a day is fixed, then, such amount shall be divided by eight for fixing the rate of wages for an hour and multiplied by twenty six for fixing the rate of wages for a month and in such division and multiplication the factors of one-half and more than one-half shall be rounded as next figure and the factors less than one-half shall be ignored. In case of a five days working week, the hourly rate of minimum wages so calculated shall be used to derive the minimum wages for the day.