S.L. 452.87 Art. 15Other special cases.

Subject to the provisions of regulation 14, regulations 4, 5,

6, and 9 shall not apply -

(a) in relation to activities where the worker’s place of work and place of residence are distant from one another, including offshore work, or his different places of work with the same employer are distant from one another;

(b) in relation to security and surveillance activities requiring a permanent presence in order to protect property and persons, as may be the case for security guards and caretakers or security firms;

(c) in relation to activities involving the need for continuity of service or production, as may be the case in relation to -

(i) services relating to the reception, treatment or care provided by hospitals or similar establishments, residential institutions and prisons;

(ii) work at docks or airports;

(iii) press, radio, television, cinematographic production, postal and telecommunications services and civil protection services;

(iv) gas, water and electricity production, transmission and distribution, household refuse collection and incineration plants;

(v) industries in which work cannot be interrupted on technical grounds;

(vi) research and development activities;

(vii) agriculture;

(viii) workers concerned with the carriage of passengers on regular urban transport services;

(d) where there is a foreseeable surge of activity, as may be the case in relation to -

(i) agriculture;

(ii) tourism; and

(iii) postal services;

(e) in the case of persons working in railway transport:

(i) whose activities are intermittent;

(ii) who spend their working time on board trains; or

(iii) whose activities are linked to transport time-tables and to ensuring the continuity and regularity of traffic;

(f) where the worker’s activities are affected by -

(i) an occurrence due to unusual and unforeseeable circumstances, beyond the control of the worker’s employer;

(ii) exceptional events, the consequences of which could not have been avoided despite the exercise of all due care by the employer; or

(iii) an accident or the imminent risk of an accident.