Apprenticeship Act, 1931

Prohibition of employment above maximum number of hours.

15.—(1) Where any rules regulating the maximum hours of work made by an apprenticeship committee are for the time being in force, it shall not be lawful for any person (in this section referred to as an employer) carrying on in the district of such committee the designated trade for which such committee is established to cause or require any apprentice employed by him in such trade to work for a greater number of hours (exclusive of overtime) in any week than the number laid down in such rules.

(2) If any employer acts in contravention of this section he shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds.