SHOPS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1946

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SHOPS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1946 - SECT 16



16.(1) Subject to the provisions of this Part of this Act regarding the
employment of young persons a person shall not save as provided by this
section be employed in or about the business of a shop for more than the
normal maximum working hours, that is to say, forty-eight working hours in any
week.

(2) On occasions of seasonal or exceptional pressure of work at any shop a
person, not being a young person, may, subject as hereafter in this section
provided, be employed in or about the business of the shop overtime, that is
to say, in excess of the normal maximum working hours:

Provided that

(a)no person shall be employed in or about the business of a shop in any week
after he has been employed (whether in that shop or elsewhere) overtime for
twelve working hours in that week;

(b)every person employed overtime in or about the business of a shop shall in
respect of such overtime be entitled to receive from his employer overtime pay
at a rate in excess of the rate at which he is paid in respect of his normal
maximum working hours and the rate payable for overtime shall be either

(i)that which is prescribed in that behalf under or by virtue of any enactment
other than this Act or which is the customary overtime rate in the trade in
which the person is employed, or

(ii)if no overtime rate is so prescribed or is customary in that trade, then
at least five-fourths of the rate payable to him in respect of normal
working hours, and each such rate shall, for the purposes of this paragraph,
be calculated on an hourly basis.

(3) Any agreement made by or with any person employed in or about the business
of a shop for the payment of overtime pay at a rate which is less than that
prescribed by this section shall be void.

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SHOPS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1946 - SECT 16