The employer shall ensure at a construction site of a building or other construction work that,--
(a) every architect and other professional like structural engineer or project engineer involved in the execution of a building or other construction project furnishes to the Bureau of Indian Standards, the details regarding the performance of and deviations or short-comings, if any. of the building materials, articles or processes used in such building and other construction project for which the Indian Standards are already available; and
(b) the architect and other professional referred to in clause (a) informs to the Bureau of Indian Standards, the details of building materials, articles or processes used in the building and other construction activities for which the Indian Standards do not exist with the Bureau of Indian Standards and the performance of such materials, articles or processes along with the suggestions for their improvement to enable the Bureau of Indian Standards to consider and form necessary standards.
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PART IV .
Hours of work, welfare, payment of wages, registers and records, etc.
CHAPTER XXVI Hours of work, intervals, rest, and weekly off, etc.
234. Hours of work, intervals of rest and, spread over, etc. (l) No building worker employed in building or other construction of work shall be required or allowed to work for more than 9 hours a day or 48 hours a week.
(2) No building worker employed in building or other constructional work shall be required or allowed to work continuously for more than 5 hours unless he has an interval of rest of not less than half-an-hour.
(3) The working day of a building worker employed in building or other construction work shall be so arranged that inclusive of all the intervals of rest, if any, shall not spread over more than 12 hours on any day.
(4) When a building worker works in any building or other construction work for more than 9 hours on any day or for more than 48 hours in any week, he shall, in respect of overtime work. be entitled to wages at double the ordinary rate of wages.