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§ 790.12 - “Portion of the day.”
A “preliminary” or “postliminary” activity of the kind referred to in section 4 of the Portal Act is compensable under a contract, custom, or practice within the meaning of that section “only when it is engaged in during the portion of the day with respect to which it is so made compensable.”
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84 Section 4(c) of the Portal Act (set out in full in § 790.3).
85 See §§ 790.4-790.6.
86 Conference Report, pp. 12, 13.
87 See Conference Report, p. 13; §§ 790.4(c) and 790.5(b).
The scope of section 4(c) is narrower in this respect than that of section 2(b), which is couched in identical language. Cf. Conference Report, pp. 9, 10; pp. 12, 13. See also § 790.23.