# The Bombay Shops and Establishments Act, 1948, Section 21

- Act: The Bombay Shops and Establishments Act, 1948 (Act 79 of 1948)
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## Text

(1) Except on the days that may be notified under sub-section (3) of section 19, no employee shall be required or allowed to work in any residential hotels, restaurant or eating house for more than nine hours in any day. (2) On the days which may be notified under sub-section (3) of section 19, any employee may be required or allowed to work in a residential hotel, restaurant or eating house in excess of the period fixed under sub-section (1), if such excess period does not exceed three hours in any day. 49[22. The period of work of an employee in a residential hotel, restaurant, or eating house each day shall be so fixed that no period of continuous work, shall exceed five hours and that no employee shall be required or allowed to work for more than five hours before he has had an interval for rest of at least one hour] : 50 [Provided that, the State Government may, on an application made in that behalf by the employees concerned, permit the reduction of the interval for rest to half an hour.]

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