The Short Title of this Act is “The Employment of Females and Others Act 1881 Amendment Act, 1885.” It shall be read with “The Employment of Females and Others Act, 1881” (herein referred to as “the said Act”).

The provisions of the said Act with respect to the employment of females and young persons shall not prevent the employment of such females and young persons in the process of making preserves from fruit or of preserving and curing fish, or in printing or publishing any newspaper, for more than eight hours: Provided that they shall not be so employed for more than ten hours a day, subject to the provisions of the said Act as to meals: Provided also that no work shall be done before six ante meridiem or after eight post meridiem; and also—

That all persons so employed shall receive additional wages in respect of such overtime at a rate not less than is paid in respect of their employment during ordinary hours; and

That no female or young person shall be so employed at overtime for more than four days in any week.

In any borough, county, or town district where it may be found inconvenient that work should cease on Saturdays, as provided in the said Act, the Borough or County Council or Town Board may, by special order from time to time, appoint any other working day in the week on which females, young persons, and children shall have holiday from two o’clock in the afternoon.

Every special order made as aforesaid shall be publicly notified, and from the notification thereof the said Act shall be read and construed, and shall operate in respect of all persons to be affected by such special order as if the day named therein had been enacted in section six of the said Act in place of the word “Saturday.”

Section ten of the said Act is hereby amended by the addition of the following words: “The employment on Saturdays of male young persons from the hour: of one post meridiem to the hour of six post meridiem in the printing and publishing of newspapers.”