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O] &) ) @ (&) No adult worker shall be required or allowed to work in a shop or establishment for more than forty- eight hours in any week and nine howrs in a day and no worker shall be asked to work continuously for more than five hours unless he has been given a break of not less than half an hour: Provided that, the working hours or weekly holiday may be relaxed in case of work of urgent nature with the previous permission of the Facilitator. The total number of hours of work in a shift including the rest interval shall not exceed four and half hows in any shop or establishment and in case a worker is entrusted with intermittent nature of work or urgent work, the spread over shall not exceed twelve hours. Any working hour beyond nine hours a day or forty- eight hours & week shall be treated as overtime and the total number of overtime hours shall not exceed one hundred and twenty-five hours in a period of three months. The Government shall subject to sub-section (1) above, (i) prescribe the number of hours of work which shall constitute a normal working day for the waorkers employed in the shop or establishment, inclusive of one or more specified intervals; and (i) provide for a day of rest in every period of seven days, which shall be allowed to all the workers employed in the shop or establishment and for the payment of remuncration in respect of such days of rest. The provisions of sub-sections (1) and (2) shall, in relation to the following class of workers employed in such shop or establishment, apply only to such extent, and subject to such conditions, as may be prescribed, namely:- () workers engaged on urgent work, or in any emergency which could not have been foreseen or prevented; (i) workers engaged in the nature of preperatory or complementary work which must necessarily be carried on outside the normat hours of work laid down in the rules; THE ASSAM GAZETTE, EXTRAORDINARY, MARCH 21, 2025 917 Payment of wages for overtime wark Shift working and 15, overtime work Furnishing of Identity Card to worker