13. Hours of work for adult motor transport workers--No adult motor transport worker shall be
required or allowed to work for more than eight hours in any day and forty-eight hours in any week:
Provided that where any such motor transport worker is engaged in the running of any motor transport
service on such long distance routes, or on such festive and other occasions as may be notified in the
prescribed manner by the prescribed authority, the employer may, with the approval of such authority,
require or allow such motor transport worker to work for more than eight hours in any day or forty-eight
hours in any week but in no case for more than ten hours in a day and fifty-four in hours in a week, as the
case may be :
Provided further that in the case of a breakdown or dislocation of a motor transport service or
interruption of traffic or act of God, the employer may, subject to such conditions and limitations as may be
prescribed, require or allow any such motor transport worker to work for more than eight hours in any day
or more than forty-eight hours in any week.
14. Hours of work for adolescents employed as motor transport workers.--No adolescent shall be
employed or required to work as a motor transport worker in any motor transport undertaking--
(a) for more than six hours a day including rest interval of half-an-hour;
(b) between the hours of 10 P.M. and 6 A.M.
15. Daily intervals for rest.--(1) The hours of work in relation to adult motor transport workers on
each day shall be so fixed that no period of work shall exceed five hours and that no such motor transport
worker shall work for more than five hours before he has had on interval for rest for at least half-an-hour;
Provided that the provisions of this sub-section in so far as they relate to interval for rest shall not
apply to a motor transport worker who is not required to work for more than six hours on that day.
(2) The hours of work on each day shall be so fixed that a motor transport worker is, except in any
case referred to in the second provision to section 13, allowed a period of rest of at least nine consecutive
hours between the termination of duty on any one day and the commencement of duty on the next
following day.
16. Spread-over.--(1) The hours of work of an adult motor transport worker shall, except in any case
referred to in the second provision to section 13 be so arranged that inclusive of interval for rest under
section 15, they shall not spread-over more than twelve hours in any day.
(2) The hours of work of an adolescent motor transport worker shall be so arranged that inclusive of
interval for rest under section 14, they shall not spread-over more than nine hours in any day.
17. Split duty.--Subject to the other provisions contained in this Act, the hours of work of a motor
transport worker shall not be split into more than two spells on any day.
18. Notice of hours of work.--(1) There shall be displayed and correctly maintained by every
employer a notice of hours of work in such form and manner as may be prescribed showing clearly for
every day the hours during which motor transport workers may be required to work.
(2) Subject to the other provisions contained in this Act, no such motor transport worker shall be
required or allowed to work otherwise than in accordance with the notice of hours of work so displayed.
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19. Weekly rest.--(1) The State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, make rules
providing for a day of rest in every period of seven days, which shall be allowed to all motor transport
workers.
(2) Not with standing anything contained in sub-section (1), an employer may, in order to prevent any
dislocation of a motor transport service, require a motor transport worker to work on any day of rest which
is not a holiday so, however, that the motor transport worker does not work for more than ten days
consecutively without a holiday for a whole day intervening.
(3) Nothing contained in sub-section (1) shall apply to any motor transport worker whose total period
of employment including any day spent on leave is less than six day.
20. Compensatory day of rest. -- Where, as a result of any exemption granted to an employer under
the provisions of this Act from the operation of section 19, a motor transport worker is deprived of any of
the days of rest to which he is entitled under that section, the motor transport worker shall be allowed
within the month in which the days of rest are due to him or within two months immediately following that
month, compensatory days of rest of equal number to the days of rest so lost.