4. Section 12A of the principal enactment (inserted by Act No, 24 of 1962) is hereby amended by the repeal of subsections (1) and (2) of that section and the substitution therefor of the following subsections: -
| " (1) The employer of more than a prescribed number of women workers in any trade shall establish and maintain, in accordance with regulations made in that behalf, a creche for children under five years of age, and shall allow any such worker who has in her care a child or children under five years of age, to leave such child or children in such creche during the hours when she is required to work for her employer. |
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| (2) The Minister may, for the purposes of this section, prescribe a number for a trade or a branch of a trade, having regard to the number of women workers employed in, and the nature of the work a woman worker is required to perform in, such trade or such branch.". |
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