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Wages for overtime work.—(1) Where any employee employed in any industrial premises is required to work overtime, he shall be entitled in respect of such overtime work, to wages at the rate of twice his ordinary rate of wages. (2) Where the employees in an industrial premises are paid on a piece-rate basis, the overtime rate shall be calculated, for the purposes of this section, at the time rates which shall be as nearly as possible equivalent to the daily average of their full time earnings for the days on which they had actually worked during the week immediately preceding the week in which the overtime work has been done.