Conditions of Employment Act, 1936

Restrictions on employment of women at night.

46.—(1) Notwithstanding any provision of this Act other than the provision empowering the Minister to make exclusion regulations, it shall not be lawful for any employer to permit any woman to do for him any industrial work at any time between the hour of 10 p.m. on any day and the hour of 8 a.m. on the following day or to permit any woman to commence to do for him any industrial work on any day until after the expiration of eleven hours from the time at which she ceased to do industrial work on the previous day.

(2) If any employer acts in contravention of this section he shall be guilty of an offence under this section.