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(1) Subject to other provisions of this Act, no employee in any shop shall be required or allowed to work therein for more than eight hours in any day and forty-eight hours in any week. (2) Any employee may be required or allowed to work in a shop for any period in excess of the limit fixed under sub- section (1) on payment of over-time wages, subject to a maximum period of six hours in a week. (3) For the purpose of stock-taking and preparation of accounts, an employer may, with the previous intimation to the Inspector, require or allow any employee to work in a shop for not more than any six days in a year in excess of the period fixed in sub-section (1), on payment of over-time wages; so however, that the excess period shall not in aggregate, exceed twenty-four hours.