All the provisions of the Factories Act regarding employment and work of adult male

workers apply to adult female workers except the following provisions which apply
to adult female workers only:
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Work on or near machinery in motion [Sec. 22 (2)].

Prohibition of employment near cotton-openers [Sec. 27].
Crches [Sec. 48].
Working hours [Sec. 81 and 54]. A woman shall not be required or
allowed to work in a factory for more than 48 hours in any week or 9 hours in
any day.
5. Restriction on employment of women [Sec. 66]. A woman shall be
required or allowed to work in a factory only between the hours of 6 A.M. and
7 P.M. the State Government may, ny notification in the Official Gazette in
respect of any factory or group or class or description of factories, vary these
limits. But no such variation shall authorise the employment of any woman
between the hours of 10 P.M. and 5 A.M. again there shall be no change of
shifts in the case of women workers in a factory except after a weekly or any
other holiday [Sec. 66 (1)].
The State Government may make rules providing for the exempting from the
restrictions imposed by Sec. 66 (1) in case of women working in fish-curing or
fish-canning factories, where the deterioration in, any raw material [Sec. 66
(2)]. The rules so made shall remain in force for not more than 3 years at a
time [Sec. 66 (3)]
6. Dangerous operation [Sec. 87 (b)]. Where the State Government is of opinion
that any operation carried on in a factory exposes any person employed in it to a
serious risk of bodily injury, poisoning or disease, it may make rules prohibiting or
restricting the employment of women in that operation.