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(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, no employee shall be required or allowed to work in any shop or commercial establishment for more than nine hours in any day and forty—eight hours in any week. (2) Any employee may be required or allowed to work in a shop or commercial establishment for any period in excess of the limit fixed under sub-section (1), if such period does not exceed three hours in any week. (3) On not more than six days in a year which the 34[State] Government may fix by rules made in this behalf, for purposes of making of accounts, stock taking, settlements or other prescribed occasions, any employee may be required or allowed to work in a shop or commercial establishment in excess of the period fixed under sub-section (1), if such excess period does not exceed twenty—four hours. 35[15. 36[(1)] The period of work of an employee in a shop or commercial establishment each day shall be so fixed that no period of continuous work shall exceed five hours and that on employee shall be required or allowed to work for more than five hours before he has had 37[an interval for rest of at least— (i) half an hour, if he is employed in a commercial establishment engaged in any manufacturing process, and (ii) one hour in any other case, subject, however, to the provisions of sub- section (2)]. 38[(2) In the case of employees other than those employed in a commercial establishment engaged in any manufacturing process, the State Government, on an application made in that behalf by the employees concerned, may permit the reduction of the interval for rest to half an hour.]