The Administrator of Chandigarh vide notification No. 12/01/106-IIII(2)-2020/7732 has exempted all factories registered under The Factories Act, 1948 in the Union territory from the provisions of Section 51 (Weekly Hour), Section 54 (Daily Hour), Section 55 (intervals of rest) and Section 56 (Spread over) with immediate effect for a period of three months subject to conditions that (i) No Workers shall be allowed to work in a factory for more than twelve hours in any day and seventy-two hours in any week, (ii) The period of work of workers in a factory each day shall be so fixed that no period shall exceed six hours and that no workers shall work for more than six hours before he had an interval of for rest of at least half an hour (iii) No female worker shall be allowed or required to work in a factory between 07.00 PM to 06.00 AM. Other provisions of the Factories Act, 1948 shall continue to be in force. Please refer to the notification for more details