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THE PLANTATIONS LABOUR ACT, 1951 · PRELIMINARY

Section 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.