S.L. 65.19 Art. 29Daily and weekly rest periods.

(1) A mobile worker shall take daily and weekly rest periods.

(2) A daily rest period of eleven hours shall be taken within each period of twenty-four hours after the end of the previous daily rest period or weekly rest period:

Provided that the daily rest period may be reduced to at least nine hours no more than three times between any two weekly rest periods.

(3) A daily rest period may be extended to make a regular weekly rest period or a reduced weekly rest period.

(4) Notwithstanding subregulation (2), a mobile worker engaged in multi-manning shall, within thirty hours from the end of a daily or weekly rest period, take a new daily rest period of at least nine hours.

(5) (a) In any two consecutive weeks a mobile worker shall take at least -- two regular weekly rest periods, or - one regular weekly rest period and one reduced weekly rest period of at least twenty-four hours: Provided that the reduction shall be compensated by an equivalent period of rest taken en bloc before the end of the third week following the week in question.

(b) A weekly rest period shall start no later than at the end of six twenty-four-hour periods from the end of the previous weekly rest period.

(6) (a) Any rest taken as compensation for a reduced weekly rest period shall be attached to another rest period of at least nine hours.

(b) Where a mobile worker chooses to do this, daily rest periods and reduced weekly rest periods away from base may be taken in a vehicle, as long as the vehicle has suitable sleeping facilities for each mobile worker and the vehicle is stationary.

(7) A weekly rest period that falls in two weeks may be counted in either week, but not in both.