How to set 'colliding' access restrictions in wrt610n - what are rule preferences?

Question

Hello. I want to set up access restrictions to one MAC address (my kid's machine) basing on week days. From Su to Th allow less access time while during Fr-Sa afternoons access time should be longer. The question is how to program it in router. I know I can set rules with "allow" and "disable" keyword, but I don't know rules preference.
When I set (Su-Th 6-21) allowed access time then router automatically denies defined machine internet access outside this time range. The problem is in the power of thus calculated denying time. I want to allow more access time in weekend, so I hoped if I can simply add "Fr-Sa 6-22:30 allowed access time" rule. I hoped that router will regard explicitly set time over inexplicitly set  time but it appears it is not so.
Does anyone know the rule of rules? What are their preferences/priorieties, iis it possible to stack more rules affecting one MAC address or it is so simple that the first rule "rulez"? Is it possible to set more than one time rule affecting the one machine?
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Agh! Thanks for your reply, it was good incentive to test the problem little more. Now I'm pretty sure that wrt610n algorithm has problem - it lies with power cuts. In my flat, the last internet user usually turns off power board when goes to sleep. After power is resumed router seemed to work flawlessly yet herein lies the problem and I hope I've found solution.
The tests I have done:
1. 2 rules (as mentioned in my first post). Kid's machine works (this is day now). Didn't played with rules times. Just turned router off. When router was turned on, two other (parents) machine get internet access while kid's machine didn't! Kid's machine was banned from internet against the rules. Router has proper time set - I checked it's status.
2. I turned both rules to "disable access" versions (1. disable access Su-Th 21-23:55; 2. disable access Fr-Sa 22:30-23:55). This rules should work almost the same way (the only problem is, that no rule can expand over midnight, so the third rule should be added, banning access from midnigts to early mornings). The router was switched off. Then on. All three machines now has internet access. I hope, router will ban access in the afternoon automatically, as is set
My deduction. Algorithm bases on time points. When marked time comes, algorithm do, what it should do (but only, if router is powered). When you set "turn internet access on" time (this is "allow rule"), router turns on the access precisely at the chosen moment of time. If router was dead at that time, it doesn't turn the access on however, when power is restored. But when you set "disable rules" in place of "enable rules" I hope it should work and I tested, that this way router gives access after turning it on. Router should disable internet access to the kid's machine at selected time - at least until smart kid does not turn the router off a few seconds before the switch_off time and soon after turn it on But then there is plenty of more powerfull means of control, so I don't worry too much Yet it seems to me, there is a flaw in algorithm, which doesn't run properly after power on.