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(1) An adolescent who has been granted a certificate of fitness to work in a factory as an adult under Cl. (b) of sub-section (2) of Sec. 69, and who while at work in a factory carries a token giving reference to the certificate, shall be deemed to be an adult for all the purposes of Chapters VI and VIII. [x x x x] [(1-A) No female adolescent or a male adolescent who has not attained the age of seventeen years but who has been granted a certificate of fitness to work in a factory as an adult, shall be required or allowed to work in any factory except between 6 a.m. and 7 p.m.: Provided that the State Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, in respect of any factory or group or class or description of factories, - (i) Vary the limits laid down in the sub-section so, however, that no such section shall authorise the employment of any female adolescent between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m.; (ii) Grant exemption from the provisions of this sub-section in case of serious emergency where national interest is involved.] (2) An adolescent who has not been granted a certificate of fitness to work in a factory as an adult under the aforesaid Cl. (b) shall notwithstanding his age, be deemed to be a child for all the purposes of this Act. Proviso and Explanation Ins. By Act 25 of 1954, sec. 18 but omitted by Act 20 of 1987, Sec.22(w.e.f 1st December, 1987). Ins. by Sec. ibid. (w.e.f 1st December, 1987)