Clause 13

by inserting, immediately after subsection (2), the following subsection:“(2A) An employee to whom this section applies may be required by his employer to exceed the limit of hours prescribed in subsection (1) and to work on a rest day, in the case of —

accident, actual or threatened;

work, the performance of which is essential to the life of the community;

work essential for defence or security;

urgent work to be done to machinery or plant; or

an interruption of work which it was impossible to foresee.”; and

by deleting the word “No” in subsection (3) and substituting the words “Except in the circumstances described in subsection (2A)(a), (b), (c), (d) and (e), no”.