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Exemption: (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 1[State] Governments, local authorities, the Reserve Bank of India, 2[a railway administration operating any railway as defined in clause (20) of article 366 of the Constitution] and cantonment authorities; 1 Subs. for “Provincial” by the Adaptation Order of 1950 2 These words, brackets and figures were substituted by the Adaptation (Amendment) Order, 1950, for the words “a railway administration operating a Federal Railway” 5 (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 1[State]. (2) Nothing contained in section 7 or section 13, 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 1[State] Government may, by general or special order, specify; (c) clubs and residential hotels, hostels attached to schools or colleges, and establishments maintained in boarding schools in connection with the boarding and lodging of pupils and residents masters; (d) stalls and refreshment rooms at railway stations, docks, wharves or ports.