Discuss the applicability of Motor Transport Workers Act, 1961.

The Motor Transport Workers Act, 1961, was enacted to provide for the welfare of motor transport workers and to regulate the conditions of their work. It applies to every motor transport undertaking employing five or more motor transport workers. The State Government may, after giving notification in the Official Gazette, apply all or any of the provisions of this Act to any motor transport undertaking employing less than five motor transport workers. According to the Act, 'motor transport undertaking' means "an undertaking engaged in carrying passengers or goods or both by road for hire or reward and includes a private carrier" Every employer of a motor transport undertaking to which this Act applies shall have the undertaking registered under this Act. No adult motor transport worker shall be required or allowed to work for more than eight hours in any day and forty-eight hours in any week. Also, no adolescent shall be employed or required to work as a motor transport worker in any motor transport undertaking for more than six hours a day including rest interval of half-an-hour; and between the hours of 10 P.M. and 6 A.M.