Subject to the provisions of article L. 5122-3, the number of hours which may justify the allocation of the partial activity allowance corresponds to the difference between the legal working time over the period in question or, where this is lower, the collective working time or the time stipulated in the contract, and the number of hours worked over the said period.
For the application of this article, the legal working hours and the working hours stipulated in the contract are defined for the period under consideration, taking into account the number of whole months, the number of whole weeks and the number of working days.