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| (1) No adult worker shall be ordered or compelled to work underground in a mine for more than eight hours on any one day, inclusive of one hour for meals and rest, or for more than forty-eight hours during any six consecutive days. |
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| (2) The hours of work of every adult worker in a mine shall be so arranged that they shall not spread over more than ten hours on any one day. |
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| (3) No adult worker shall work or be permitted to work in any mine on any day on which he has already worked in any other mine for the maximum number of hours prescribed by subsection (1) for any one day. |
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| (4) In the case of mines generally, or of any one or more specified mines, other limits extending the hours of work of adult workers set out in subsection (1) may be prescribed by regulation; and this section in its application to such mine or mines, shall accordingly be construed as if, for the limits set out in subsection (1), the limits so prescribed had been substituted. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts