1. SHORT TITLE, EXTENT, COMMENCEMENT AND APPLICATION.-
ACT NOT APPLICABLE TO CERTAIN ESTABLISHMENTS AND PERSONS.-
Nothing in this Act shall apply to –
a) offices of or under the Central or State Government (except commercial undertakings), the Reserve Bank of India, any railway administration or any local authority;
b) any railway service, air service, water transport service, tramway, postal, telegraph or telephone service, any system of public conservancy or sanitation or any industry, business or undertaking which supplies power , light or water to the public ;
c) railway dining cars;
d) offices of lawyers;
e) any person employed about the business of any establishment mentioned in paragraphs (a) to (d) aforesaid ;
f) any person whose hours of employment are regulated by or under the Factories Act, 1948 , except the provisions of sub-section (3),(4) and (5) of Section 7 of this Act in so far as they relate to employment in a factory ;
(g) any person whose work is inherently intermittent;
(h) establishment of stamp vendors and petition writers.]