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Daily and weekly hours of work in shops and prohibition of sales in its vicinity. — (1) Subject to other provisions of this Act, no employee in any shop shall be required or allowed to work therein for more than eight hours in any day and forty-eight hours in any week. (2) Any employee may be required or allowed to work in a shop for any period in excess of the limit fixed under sub-section (1), on payment of over-time wages, subject however that the maximum period of such excess in a week shall be six hours. (3) For the purpose of stock-taking and preparation of accounts, an employer may, with the previous intimation to the Inspector, require or allow any employee to work in a shop for not more than any fifteen days in a year, in excess of the period fixed in sub- section (1), on payment of over-time wages, so however that the excess period shall not in aggregate, exceed twenty-four hours. (4) No person shall carry on, in or adjacent to, a street or public place, the sale of any goods before the opening and after the closing hours fixed under section 4 for the shops dealing in any kind of goods in the locality in which such street or public place is situated: Provided that nothing in this section shall apply to the sale of — (i) Newspapers, (ii) Flowers, (iii) Pan, (iv) Vegetables and fruits, and (v) such other goods as the Government may, from time to time, by notification, specify.