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Landowner not to reduce wages, etc—No landowner shall by reason only of his liability for the payment of any contribution to the Fund reduce whether directly or indirectly the wages of any agricultural worker to whom the Scheme applies. - Substituted by Act 6 of 1990. 312147/201 7/S-iC. 10 CHAPTER [V HOURS AND LIMITATIONS OF EMPLOYMENT AND WAGES Hours olwok—save as otherwise expressly provided in this Act, no adult agricultural worker shall be required to work for more than eight hours in any day and no adolescent or child for more than six hours in any day: Provided that nothing contained in this section shall be deemed to prohibit an agreement between the landowner and the agricultural workers for noiing for less than eight hours or six hours, as the case may be, on any particular day or days or on tll days of employment or to affect any custom or practice prevailing in the locality under which the agricultural worker is required to work for kss than eight hours or six hours, as the case may be. Daily intervals for rest--The period of work on each day shall be so fixed that no period shill exceed four hours and that no agricultural worker shall work for more than four hours before he has had an interval for rest for at least half an hour. Wages payable to agricultural workers.--( 1) Every landowner shall pay to any agricultural worker employed by him the prescribed wages for each day of work done. (2) The Government may, from time to time, by notification in the Gazette, fix the number of hours of work which shall constitute a normal working day for the purposes of sub-section (1) either for the whole State or any part thereof: Provided that where the Government have fixed the number of hours of work which shall contitute a normal working day in respect of any of the categories of agricultural workers in the employment in agriculture under Section 13 of the Minimum Wages Act, 1948 (Central Act 11 of 1948), the hours ofork so fixed shall, until a totification is issued under this sub-section, be deemeä to have been fixed under this sub-section. Wages for harvest.—(l) The prescribed wages for harvest shall be ôaid • at the threshing floor on which the threshing takes place and no portion of the produce shall be removed from the threshing floor, without p4yment of the prescribed wages to the agricultural worker conderned. (2) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), where the quantum of prescribed wages is in dispute and such quantum cannot be determined without settling the dispute under the provisions of this Act, an Officer not below the rank of Tahsildar authorised in this behalf by the Government by notification in the Gazette shall, if.he is satisfied that the harvested produce if kej,t in the threshing floor till the settlement of the dispute will perish or be otherwise lost, take such action as he thinks expedient in each case to ensure that the harvested produce does not perish or is not otherwise lost till the settlement of the dispute. 11