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Section 3. Reference to time of day.

THE PLANTATIONS LABOUR ACT, 1951

Act no. 69 of 19511951Repealed 21 November 2025All India (Central Act)

This Act was repealed on 21 November 2025 by the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020 (37 of 2020), s.143(1); it may still apply to matters that began before then.

3. Reference to time of day.—In this Act, references to time of day are references to Indian Standard Time being five and a half hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time: Provided that for any area in which the Indian Standard Time is not ordinarily observed, the State Government may make rules— (a) specifying the area; (b) defining the local mean time ordinarily observed therein; and (c) permitting such time to be observed in all or any of the plantations situated in that area.