Section 10

Overcrowding.

The Beedi and Cigar Workers (Conditions of Employment) Act, 1966

  • Act 32 of 1966
  • Ministry of Labour and Employment
About this Act

An Act to provide for the welfare of the workers in beedi and cigar establishments and to regulate the conditions of their work and for matters connected therewith.

All sections
    (1) No room in any industrial premises shall be overcrowded to an extent injurious to the health of the persons employed therein.
     (2) Without prejudice to the generality of sub-section (1), there shall be in any work room of such premises at least four and a quarter cubic metres of space for every person employed therein, and for the purposes of this sub-section, no account shall be taken of any space which is more than three metres above the level of the floor of the work room.

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