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Rights and privileges under other laws, elc., not affected.—(1) Noth- ing contained in this Act shall affect any 1ights o1 privileges which any employee working in any beedi and cigar industrial premises is entitled to on the date on which this Act comes into force, under any other Jaw, contract, custom or usage, applicable to such beedi and cigar industrial premises, ifsuch rights or privileges are more favourable to hun than those to which he would be entitled under this Act. (2) Nothing in this Act shall take away the rights or privileges which an employee working m any becdi and cigar industiial premises will be entitled to under the Madras Shops and ['stablishments Act, 1947, o1 the Tiavancore-Cochin Shops and Establishments Act, 1125, if such rights or privileges are moie favourable to him than those to which he would be entitled under this Act. (3) If any question arises whether the rights o1 privileges aforesaid aic more favourable to any emplovee than those to which he would be entitled unde: this Act, or whether all o1 any of the provisions of this Act apply to a beedi and cigai industi:al premises or to a person emplo- yed therein, it shall be decided by such offices as may be prescribed, and his decision thereon shall be final and shall not be hable to be questioned in any Court of Law. 27, Power to exempi.—The Government may, by notification, exempt, subject to such conditions and testiictions as they may impose, — (a) any beed: and cigar industrial piemises ; or (6) any beedi and cigar imdustry, or (c} any class of employces ; from all or any of the piovisions of this Act or of any rules made there- under.