29. Weekly Rest .- (1) No motor transport worker shall be required or allowed to work on a day of rest fixed for him (herein after referred to as the “said day”), unless: (a) he has or will have a holiday, for a whole day (herein after called the “substituted day”, on one of the three days immediately before or after the said day; and (b) the employer has before the said day or substituted day whichever is earlier;
(i) delivered a notice at the office of the Inspector of his intention to require the worker to work on the said day and the day which is to be substituted; and (ii) displayed a notice to that effect at the premises. (2) Notice given under sub-rule (1) may be cancelled by a notice delivered at the office of the Inspector and a notice displayed at the premises of the undertaking not later than the day before the said or the substituted day to be cancelled whichever is earlier. (3) Where in accordance with the provisions of sub-rule (a) any motor transport worker works on the said day and has had a holiday on one of the three days immediately before it, that said day shall, for the purpose of calculating his weekly hours of work be included in the immediately preceding week.
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