(1) Subject to other provisions of this Act, no employee in any shop 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 a shop for any period in excess of the limit fixed under subsection (1) on payment of over-time wages, subject to a maximum period of six hours in a week.
(3) For the purpose 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 a shop for not more than any six days in a year in excess of the period fixed in sub-section (1), on payment of over-time wages; so however, that the excess period shall not in aggregate, exceed twenty-four hours.
10. No employee in any shop shall be required or allowed to work therein for more than five hours in any day unless he has had an interval for rest of at least one hour:
Daily and weekly hours of work in shops.
Interval for rest.
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Provided that, an employee who was serving a customer at the commencement of the interval may be required to serve him during the quarter of an hour immediately following such commencement.
11. The periods of work of an employee in a shop shall be so arranged that along with his intervals for rest, they shall not spread over for more than twelve hours in any day:
Provided that, where an employee works on any day for the purpose of stock-taking and preparation of accounts, the spread over shall not exceed fourteen hours in any such day on payment of over-time wages.