PART VII: WORKING HOURS AND LEAVES 42. Normal working hours (1) The normal working hours shall be forty eight hours per week, or eight hours per day provided that an interval of not less than half an hour with pay shall be allowed during the working hours either for taking a meal or for rest. (2) The competent authority may by an order made by it after consultation with the Council, amend the weekly or the daily working hours or the intervals of rest for some periods of the year or for some categories of workers according to the nature and kind of work. (3) The daily working hours shall be reduced by one hour with pay, during the month of Ramadan in relation to the fasting workers and to wet nurses for two years from the date of the birth provided that such an hour shall be payable by the employer 43. Overtime work (1) With the exception of the cases where the competent authority otherwise decides and subject to the provisions of section 21(7), the employer, in pressing emergency may ask the worker to do over-time work for a period not exceeding four hours and except in cases of imminent emergency the overtime work shall be an agreement of the two parties; provided that (2) Its period shall not exceed four hours per day and twelve hours per week. In all cases, the overtime work shall be optional for women within the periods specified in sub-section (1). (3)The overtime work wages shall be paid on the date of payment of the normal wage as follows: (a)In cases of normal working days, the hour is calculated to be equal to one and half-hour; (b)In cases of official holidays and weekly holidays, the hour is calculated to be equal to two hours (4) The overtime wage shall be calculated on the basic salary. 44. Annual leaves (1) The annual leave is a right for the worker and shall be due according to sub-section (2) after the completion of one year of continuous service with the employer, provided that it shall be with full pay and its time shall be tabled during the year according to the needs of work and shall include the official holidays and vacations. (2) The annual leave shall be calculated as follows: (a) If the worker completed from one year up to three years of continuous service, he shall be entitled to an annual leave equal to twenty days; (b) If the worker completed eight years and less than fifteen years of continuous service he shall be entitled to an annual leave of twenty-five days; (c) If the worker completed fifteen years or more of continuous service he shall be entitled to an annual leave equal to thirty days. (3) Subject to the provisions of sub-sections (1) and (2), in case of the termination of the contract of service for any reason or in the case of resignation, the worker shall be entitled to a wage for all the days of the annual leave or the proportionate part of the period he spent and had not been granted leave therefor. (4) The worker, with the consent of the employer, may postpone his annual leave for a year, or he may divide it between the year in which it was due and the following year and such leave shall not be postponed (all or any part thereof) for more than one year, and the worker shall be entitled to his annual leave plus the postponed leave in the following year. 45.Travelling leave and official occasions and holidays (1) The worker shall be entitled to a travelling leave with full pay for travelling to and from between his place of work and his original home once per year. (2) The travelling leave shall be calculated according to the time shown by the Sudan Railways trains or the River transport Corporation steamers, or by any means available for land transportation to the original home of the worker; provided that in all cases the period shall not exceed ten days. 15