Section 27 — Annual leave with wages.

27. Annual leave with wages.—(1) Without prejudice to such holidays as may be prescribed, every 

motor transport worker who has worked for a period of two hundred and forty days or more in a motor 

transport undertaking during a calendar year shall be allowed during the subsequent calendar year leave 

with wages for a number of days calculated at the rate of— 

(a) if an adult, one day for every twenty days of work performed by him during the previous 

calendar year; and 

(b) if an adolescent, one day for every fifteen days of work performed by him during the previous 

calendar year. 

(2) A motor transport worker whose service commences otherwise than on the first day of January 

shall be entitled to leave with wages at the rate laid down in clause (a) or, as the case may be, clause (b) 

of sub-section (1) if he has worked for two-thirds of the total number of days in the remainder of the 

calendar year. 

(3) If a motor transport worker is discharged or dismissed from service during the course of the year, 

he shall be entitled to leave with wages at the rate laid down in sub-section (1), even if he has not worked 

for the entire period specified in sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) entitling him to earned leave. 

(4) In calculating leave under this section, fraction of leave of half a day or more shall be treated as 

one full day’s leave, and fraction of less than half a day shall be omitted. 

(5) If a motor transport worker does not in any one calendar year take the whole of the leave allowed 

to him under sub-section (1) or sub-section (2), as the case may be, any leave not taken by him shall be 

added to the leave to be allowed to him in the succeeding calendar year: 

Provided that the total number of days of leave that may be carried forward to a succeeding year shall 

not exceed thirty in the case of an adult or forty in the case of an adolescent. 

(6) In this section “calendar year” means the year commencing on the first day of January. 

Explanation.—For the purposes of this section, leave shall not include weekly holidays or holidays 

for festival or other similar occasions whether occurring during or at either end of the period of leave.