EMPLOYMENT (EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN) (SHIFTWORKERS) REGULATIONS1970* 1.Citation. These Regulations may be cited as the Employment(Employmentof Women)(ShiftWorkers) Regulations1970. 2. Exemption from section 34. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 34 of the Employment Act 1955, and female employee employed in shift work in any approved industrial undertaking which operates at least two shifts per day may subject to regulation 3 work at such times within the hours of 10 o’clock in the evening and 5 o’clock in the morning, as the Minister may approve. For the purposes of this regulation “approved industrial undertaking” means an industrial undertaking approved by the Minister to which the provisions of these Regulations shall apply. 3. Period of rest to be11hours. No female employee referred to in regulation shall commence work without having had a period of eleven consecutive hours free from such work. 4. Offenceand penalty. Where a female employee is contrary to the provisions of any of these Regulations, the employer of such employee shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding five hundred ringgit and in the case of a continuing offence an additional fine of fifty ringgit for each day during which the offence continues. 5. Repeal. The Employment (Employment of Women) (Shift Workers) Regulations 1966 is hereby repealed.
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