5. Section 12B of the principal enactment (inserted by Act No. 24 of 1962) is hereby repealed and the following new section substituted therefor: -
| 12B. The employer of a woman worker in any trade shall, if she is nursing a child under one year of age, allow her, in any period of nine hours, two nursing intervals at such times as she may require. Each interval shall, where a creche or other suitable place is provided by such employer to such worker for nursing such child, be not less than thirty minutes, and, where no creche or other suitable place is so provided, be not less than one hour, and shall be in addition to any interval provided to such worker for meals or rest under any written law and be regarded, for the purposes of her employment, as time during which she has worked in her employment.". |
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