①With regard to those engineers, drivers, pilots, conductors, train masters, baggage men, trainmen, stewards, air conditioning engineers and power supply officers of a train, diesel railcar, electric railcar, automobile, ship or aircraft (hereinafter referred to as "crew members") who continuously work on board over a long distance among workers employed for the businesses designated in item (iv) of appended table 1 of the Act or for the postal or mail delivery businesses, and workers employed for the businesses designated in item (xi) of the same table who are engaged in postal business at business offices of Japan Post Co., Ltd. having less than 30 indoor workers (limited to business offices which provide postal counter service prescribed in Article 2 of the Post Office Branch Act (Act No. 213 of 1949)), an employer may give them no rest periods notwithstanding the provisions of Article 34 of the Act.

②With regard to those crew members who do not fall under the provisions of the preceding paragraph, an employer may give them no rest periods when it is found impossible to give them rest periods because of the nature of the work in which they are engaged, if the total of stoppage time, waiting time for turning back and other time while on duty is equal to the rest period prescribed in paragraph (1) of Article 34 of the Act, notwithstanding the provisions of the same Article.