EMPLOYMENT (EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN)

(SHIFT WORKERS) REGULATIONS 1970*

1. Citation.

These Regulations may be cited as the Employment (Employment of

Women) (Shift Workers) Regulations 1970.


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 under-
taking 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 be 11 hours.

No female employee referred to in regulation 2 shall commence work without
having had a period of eleven consecutive hours free from such work.


4. Offence and penalty.

Where a female employee is employed 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1966 is hereby repealed.

*Published as PU(A) 336 of 1983.