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tions exist, between employers' and workers' repre-
sentatives, the hours of work on one or more days of the
week are less than eight, the limit of eight hours may be
exceeded on the remaining days of the week by the
sanction of the competent public authority, or by 5
agreement between such organisations or representa-
tives; provided, however, that in no case under the
provisions of this paragraph shall the daily limit of
eight hours be exceeded by more than one hour.

(c) Where persons are employed in shifts it shall be per- 10
missible to employ persons in excess of eight hours in
any one day and forty-eight hours in any one week, if
the average number of hours over a period of three
weeks or less does not exceed eight per day and forty-
eight per week.

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Article 3.-The limit of hours of work prescribed in Article 2 may be exceeded in case of accident, actual or threatened, or in case of urgent work to be done to machinery or plant, or in case of force majeure, but only so far as may be necessary to avoid serious interference with the ordinary working of the undertaking. 20

Article 4.-The limit of hours of work prescribed in Article 2 may also be exceeded in those processes which are required by reason of the nature of the process to be carried on continuously by a succession of shifts, subject to the condition that the working hours shall not exceed fifty-six in the week on the average. Such 25 regulation of the hours of work shall in no case affect any rest days which may be secured by the national law to the workers in such processes in compensation for the weekly rest day.

Article 5.-In exceptional cases where it is recognised that the provisions of Article 2 cannot be applied, but only in such 30 cases, agreements between workers' and employers' organisations concerning the daily limit of work over a longer period of time may be given the force of regulations, if the Government, to which these agreements shall be submitted, so decides.

The average number of hours worked per week over the 35 number of weeks covered by any such agreement shall not exceed forty-eight.

Article 6.-Regulations made by public authority shall determine for industrial undertakings:

(a) The permanent exceptions that may be allowed in 40
preparatory or complementary work which must
necessarily be carried on outside the limits laid down.
for the general working of an establishment, or for
certain classes of workers whose work is essentially
intermittent.

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(b) The temporary exceptions that may be allowed, so that
establishments may deal with exceptional cases of
pressure of work.

These regulations shall be made only after consultation with 5 the organisations of employers and workers concerned, if any such organisations exist. These regulations shall fix the maximum of additional hours in each instance, and the rate of pay for overtime shall not be less than one and one quarter times the regular rate.

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Article 8.-In order to facilitate the enforcement of the
provisions of this Convention, every employer shall be required
(a) To notify by means of the posting of notices in con-
spicuous places in the works or other suitable place, or
by such other method as may be approved by the
Government, the hours at which work begins and ends,
and where work is carried on by shifts, the hours at
which each shift begins and ends. These hours shall
be so fixed that the duration of the work shall not
exceed the limits prescribed by this Convention, and
when so notified they shall not be changed except with
such notice and in such manner as may be approved
by the Government.

(b) To notify in the same way such rest intervals accorded
. during the period of work as are not reckoned as part
of the working hours.

(c) To keep a record in the form prescribed by law or regula-
tion in each country of all additional hours worked in
pursuance of Articles 3 and 6 of this Convention.

It shall be made an offence against the law to employ any 30 person outside the hours fixed in accordance with paragraph (a), or during the interval fixed in accordance with paragraph (b).

Article 14.-The operation of the provisions of this Convention may be suspended in any country by the Government in the event of war or other emergency endangering the national 35 safety.

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Corporations (Qualification of
Clergymen) Bill.

MEMORANDUM.

Clergymen are disqualified from sitting and voting in the House of Commons, 41 Geo. 3. c. 63.

Roman Catholic Priests are similarly disqualified 10 Geo. 4. c. 7. s. 9.

Clergymen are disqualified for membership of the council of a city and of some boroughs (Local Government Act, 1882).

The object of this Bill is to render clerks in holy orders and other ministers of religion qualified for election to the House of Commons and to all municipal bodies.