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Save as otherwise expressly provided in this Act, no adult headload worker shall be required to work for more than eight hours in any day and no adolescent or minor headload worker shall be required to work for more than six hours in any day: Provided that nothing contained in this section shall be deemed to prohibit an agreement between the employer and the headload workers for working for less than eight hours or six hours, as the case may be, on any particular day or days or on all days of employment or to affect any custom or practice prevailing in the locality under which the headload worker is required to work for less than eight hours or six hours, as the case may be.