Section 19. 
Section 19. 
Section 19. 
Section 20. 
Section 10. 
Section 47. 
Section 99. 
Section 192. 
Section 103. 
Section 107. 
Section 104. 
Section 203. 
Section 203. 
Section 188. 
Section 41. 
Section 15. 
Section 16. 
Section 21. 
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9. A field labourer cannot be compelled to work more than 
six days a week, more than nine hours a day, or more than six 
hours without a break. 
10. A factory labourer may in cases of necessity be required 
to work more than nine hours a day. 
11. All labourers must be paid at double rates for overtime 
work. 
12. Labourers may agree to be paid by work done instead 
of by the day. Any complaint regarding tasks should be made 
to the Labour Officer who has power to adjudicate. 
13. Wages earned during a month must be paid within the 
first seven days of the following month. If they are not so paid 
the labourer may stop work without notice and claim his wages. 
14. All wages must be paid in cash, except that,, with the 
permission of the Controller, the cost of rations, rice or curry 
stuffs supplied may be deducted. 
15. If an employer has made money advances to a labourer 
he can deduct them from wages but he may not charge any 
interest. 
16. No labourer is forced to buy provisions at the estate 
shop nor toddy at the estate toddy-shop. He can buy where he 
likes. 
17. No employer may deduct any fine from a labourer's 
wages except: 
(a) a fine of not more than 50 cents, which may be imposed 
by the manager on any labourer who refuses to go 
to hospital or to send his wife or child to hospital 
when ordered by the manager or the doctor; 
( b ) a fine of not more than 50 cents, which may be imposed 
by the manager on any labourer who disobeys or 
allows his dependant to disobey a sanitary regulation 
publicly notified on the estate; 
(c) a fine of not more than $5 payable by any mandor, 
tindal or kangani who fails to report to the manager 
the sickness of a labourer in any gang of which he is 
in charge; 
{ d ) a fine of not more than $2.50 which may be imposed 
by the Controller of Labour if a labourer is found 
to have made a false or frivolous complaint to him. 
18. A boy or girl under the age of 18 years is not competent 
to enter into an agreement to labour. Children may be given 
work if they are 10 years of age but they are under 110 agreement 
and can stop or be stopped from work at any time without 
notice. Children under 10 years of age are not allowed to work. 
19. No female labourers of any age and no male labourers 
under the age of iS may be employed on night work, between 
the hours of iop.m. and 5 a.m. and they must have not less than 
11 hours off between work on one day and the next. 
