The Mohammedan Prayers Recognition Decree 1967

N.R.C. Decree No. 50 UNITYS ICE FREEDO. Sierra Leone

The Mobammedan Prayers (Recognition) Decree, 1967 Short title. Date of [23rd August, 1967.]commence PURSUANT to the Proclamation entitled Administration of Sierra Leone (National Reformation Council) Proclamation, 1967", published in the Gazette on the 25th of March, 1967, the National Reformation Council hereby makes and issues the following Decree: ment. *Mining Industry " includes all undertakings engaged in excavations for the purpose of searching for or win ning minerals as well as in all working of mineral deposits or alluvial diggings whether abandoned or actually being worked in the surface from the surface downwards and underground Interpre tation. A 244 OfMcial time for Mohan medan prayers. Facilities for praying to be granted to Moham medans. Special case of shift Workers. No. 50 Mohamnedan Prayers (Recognition) shift system of employment " means any employmentinvolving a continuous process and in which theemployees are usually required to work in relays.2. The period of time extending from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. every Friday shall be observed throughout Sierra Leone as a period prayer for Mohammedans.

For the purpose of enabling Mohammedan employees toaitend prayers during the period of prayer referred to in section 2 every employer shall at the request of any Mohammedan employee in his employment, grant to such employee reasonable time of duty every Friday, and in particular but without derogating from the generality of the foregoing (a) every employer shall on every Friday grant to all his Mohammedan employees the option to take a unch break from work from 12 noon to 2.30 p.m. instead of the lunch break to which his employees are nor mally entitled, so however, that in every case where a Mohammedan employee opts to take his lunch break from 12.00 noon ta 2.30 p.m. he shall, without payment of overtime, be required to work after his normal daily finishing time for a period equivalent to the extra time taken by him at the lunch break between 12.00 noon and 2.30 p.m.; (b) each employer in the Mining Industry, and in services essential to the public and to commercial and industrial concerns, shall provide suitable facilities for his Mohammedan employees to pray at their places of work.

Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 2 and 3, everyemployer who operates a shift system of employment, shall be deemed to have complied with the provisions of this Decree where such employer makes provisions for his Mohammedan employees to attend prayers on alternate Fridays only. MADE and IssuUED this 22nd day of August, 1967, BRIG. A, T. JUXON-SMITH, Chairman, National Reformation Council.