Daily and weekly hours of work in catering establishments

(1) No young person shall be required or allowed to work in any catering establishment for more than five hours in any day.

(2) No other employee shall be required or allowed to work in any catering establishment for more than nine hours in any day or for more than forty-eight hours in any week;

Provided that, subject to the payment of overtime wages, the total number of hours of work including overtime shall not exceed ten hours in any day and the total number of hours of overtime work shall not exceed fifty-four hours in any quarter.

Explanation I. - For the purposes of this sub-section, the expression "quarter" means a period of three consecutive months beginning on the 1st January, 1st April, 1st July or 1st October of every year.

Explanation II. - Where an employee is employed on a date other than the 1st January, 1st April, 1st July or 1st October, the number of hours of overtime work in any quarter shall not exceed the number which bears to fifty-four the same proportion as the number of days during which the employee was employed in that quarter bears to the total number of days in the same quarter.

Explanation III. - In calculating the number of hours of overtime work, any overtime work of half an hour or more shall be treated as one full hour's overtime work and any fraction of less than half an hour shall be omitted.