Overtime employment

(1) Notwithstanding section 4 (1) (a) and (b) and (3) of this Act, a shop assistant may be employed in or about a shop, (a) on a Sunday or a public holiday for a period not exceeding eight hours; 8 (b) after half-past one o’clock on a day specified under section 4 (3) of this Act, for a period not exceeding four hours, notwithstanding that he has already been employed in the same week after that hour on the other of such specified days; and (c) on any other day of the week for more than eight hours but not exceeding ten hours, Provided that additional employment under paragraph (b) and (c) of this subsection of this section, (i) shall not exceed twelve hours in the aggregate in any week; (ii) in the case of female shop assistants and persons under the age of eighteen years, shall not exceed twenty-four hours in the aggregate in any month; and (iii) shall not permit a shop assistant to be employed for more than six days in any week. (2) Any shop assistant employed for additional periods in accordance with the provisions of subsection (1) of this section, shall be deemed to have been employed beyond his normal working hours, and shall be paid for such employment at the overtime rates contained in section 6 of this Act, Provided that a shop assistant who is employed in or about a shop referred to in section 8 (2) (d) and (e) of this Act, on a Sunday or on a public holiday shall not be deemed to have been employed beyond his normal working hours, unless he has been employed for more than eight hours on such a day, or for more than forty-five hours in the same week. 9 (3) Where a shop assistant has been employed in or about a shop on any day for more than six hours before seven o’clock in the evening of that day, such a shop assistant shall not be further employed on that day after seven o’clock in the evening, unless he is paid for such further employment at the rates contained in section 6 of this Act. (4) Any additional sum paid in accordance with subsection (3) of this section, shall not be taken into account in determining the normal hourly rate of a shop assistant under section 6 (2) of this Act.