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Exemptions. – (1) Nothing contained in this Act shall apply to --- (a) persons employed in any establishment in a position of management; (b) persons whose work involves travelling and persons employed as canvassers and caretakers; (c) establishments under the Central and State Governments, local authorities, the Reserve Bank of India, the Federal Railway Authority, a railway administration operating a federal railway, and cantonment authorities; (d) establishments in mines and oil fields; (e) establishments in bazaars in places where fairs or festivals are held temporarily for a period not exceeding fifteen days at a time; (f) establishments which, not being factories within the meaning of the Factories Act, 1948, are in respect of matters dealt with in this Act, governed by a separate law for the time being in force in the State; (2) Nothing contained in section 10 or section 16, as the case may be, shall apply to --- (a) hospitals and other institutions for the treatment or care of the sick, the infirm, the destitute or the mentally unfit; (b) such chemists’ or druggists’ shops as the Government may, by general or special order, specify; (c) hostels attached to schools or colleges and establishments maintained in boarding schools in connection with the boarding and lodging of pupils and resident masters; (d) stalls and refreshment rooms at railway stations, docks, wharves or ports. 379