(1)Subject to the provisions of th is section, a railway servant -
(a)whose employment is intensive or continuous shall, for every week commencing on a Sunday,
be granted a rest of not less than thirty consecutive hours;
(b)whose employment is essentially intermittent shall, for every week commencing on a Sunday,
be granted a rest of not less than twenty -four consecutiv e hours including a full night.
(2)Notwithstanding anything contained i n sub -section ( 1),-
(i)any locomotive or traffic running staff shall be granted, each month, a rest of at least four
periods of not less than thirty consecutive hours each or at least five periods of not less than
twenty -two consecutive hour s each, inclu ding a full night;
(ii)the Central Government may, by rules, specify the railway servants to whom periods of rest
on scales less than those laid down under sub -section ( 1) may be g ranted and the periods thereof.
(3)Subject to such rules as may be made in this behalf, if the prescribed authority is of the opinion
that such circumstances as are referred to in sub -section ( 4) of section 132 are present, it may exempt any
railway servant from the provisions of sub -section ( 1) or clause ( i) of sub -section ( 2):
Provided that a railway servant so exempted shall, in such circumstances as may be prescribed, be
granted compensatory periods of rest for the periods he has foregone.