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Power to make exempting rules.—(1) The State Government may make rules defining the persons who hold positions of supervision or management or are employed in a confidential position in a factory 2[or empowering the Chief Inspector to declare any person, other than a person defined by such rules, as a person holding position of supervision or management or employed in a confidential position in a factory if, in the opinion of the Chief Inspector, such person holds such position or is so employed], and the provisions of this Chapter, other than the provisions of clause (b) of sub-section (1) of section 66 and of the proviso to that sub-section, shall not apply to any person so defined 2[or declared]: 2[Provided that any person so defined or declared shall, where the ordinary rate of wages of such person 3[does not exceed the wage limit specified in sub-section (6) of section 1 of the Payment of Wages Act, 1936 (4 of 1936), as amended from time to time], be entitled to extra wages in respect of, overtime work under section 59.] (2) The State Government may make rules in respect of adult workers in factories providing for the exemption, to such extent and subject to such conditions as may be prescribed— (a) of workers engaged on urgent repairs, from the provisions of sections 51, 52, 54, 55 and 56; (b) of workers engaged in work in the nature of preparatory or complementary work which must necessarily be carried on outside the limits laid down for the general working of the factory, from the provisions of sections 51, 54, 55 and 56; (c) of workers engaged in work which is necessarily so intermittent that the intervals during which they do not work while on duty ordinarily amount to more than the intervals for rest required by or under section 55, from the provisions of sections 51, 54, 55 and 56; (d) of workers engaged in any work which for technical reasons must be carried on continuously 4*** from the provisions of sections 51, 52, 54, 55 and 56; (e) of workers engaged in making or supplying articles of prime necessity which must be made or supplied every day, from the provisions of 5[section 51 and section 52]; (f) of workers engaged in a manufacturing process which cannot be carried on except during fixed sections, from the provisions of 5[section 51, section 52 and section 54]; (g) of workers engaged in a manufacturing process which cannot be carried on except at times dependent on the irregular action of natural forces, from the provisions of sections 52 and 55; (h) of workers engaged in engine-rooms or boiler-houses or in attending to power-plant or transmission machinery, from the provisions of 5[section 51 and section 52];