Section 53:
Compensatory holidays.
(1) Where, as a result of the passing of an order or the making of a
rule under the provisions of this Act exempting a factory or the workers therein from the provisions of
section 52, a worker is deprived of any of the weekly holidays for which provision is made in
sub-section (1) of that section, he shall be allowed, within the month in which the holidays were due
to him or within the two months immediately following that month, compensatory holidays of equal
number to the holidays so lost.
(2) The State Government may prescribe the manner in which the holidays for which provision is
made in sub-section (1) shall be allowed.