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Night shifts.

28.Where a worker in an establishment works on a shift which extends beyond midnight,—

(a) for the purposes of Section 26, a weekly holiday for a whole day shall mean in his case a period of twenty-four consecutive hours beginning when his shift ends;

(b) the following day for him shall be deemed to be the period of twenty-four hours beginning when such shift ends, and the hours he has worked after midnight shall be counted in the previous day.

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