Section 58

Prohibition of overlapping shifts.

The Factories Act, 1948

  • Act 63 of 1948
  • Ministry of Labour and Employment
About this Act

An Act to consolidate and amend the law regulating labour in factories.

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    (1) Work shall not be carried on in any factory by means of system of shifts so arranged that more than one relay of workers is engaged in work of the same kind at the same time.
     1[(2) The State Government or subject to the control of the State Government, the Chief Inspector, may, by written order and for the reasons specified therein, exempt on such conditions as may be deemed expedient, any factory or class or description of factories or any department or section of a factory or any category or description of workers therein from the provisions of sub-section (1).]

Notes

1. Subs. by Act 25 of 1954, s. 12, for sub-section (2) (w.e.f. 7-5-1954).

Source: India Code (Legislative Department, Govt. of India). Check the official Gazette before relying on it in court. Not legal advice. Free legal aid: 15100 (NALSA) · Know your rights

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