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Guide to Holidays Act 1981

Note: This is the text of the old Act that remains in force until 31st March 2004. From 1st April 2004 leave is governed by the Holidays Act 2003

Section 28 Special provisions for night workers on newspapers

In Plain English

This section only applies to night workers in a newspaper factory.

Legislation

28.1 For the purposes of sections 24 to 27 of this Act in their application to night workers in a newspaper factory

(a) The term "Sunday" shall mean the period from noon on Sunday until noon on the following day; and a reference to any other day shall be read as a reference to the period from noon on that day until noon on the following day:

(b) The term "holiday" shall, where the newspaper is published on the holiday, mean the period from noon on the day of the holiday until noon on the following day, and shall, where the newspaper is not published on the holiday, mean the period from noon on the day preceding the holiday until noon on the day of the holiday.

28.2 In this section, the term "newspaper" means a paper containing public news, printed and published in New Zealand periodically or in parts or numbers, at intervals not exceeding 26 days between one publication and the next.

Cf. 1946, No. 43, s. 32; 1948, No. 77, s. 15

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