Section 3, The Mohammedan Prayers Recognition Decree 1967

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.