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STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS. 1926. No. 26.
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THE TAILORING TRADE BOARD (IRISH FREE STATE).
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ROINN TIONNSCAIL AGUS TRÁCHTÁLA.
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(Department of Industry and Commerce.)
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TRADE BOARDS.
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TAILORING TRADE (IRISH FREE STATE).
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Regulations, dated March 31st, 1926, made by the Minister for Industry and Commerce under Section 11 of the Trade Boards Act, 1909 (9 Edw. 7, c. 22), with respect to the Constitution and Proceedings of the Trade Board for the Tailoring Trade (Irish Free State).
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The Minister for Industry and Commerce, in pursuance of his powers under Section 11 of the Trade Boards Act, 1909, and of every other power him hereunto enabling, is pleased to make the annexed Regulations.
1. A Trade Board shall be established in the Irish Free State for the trade specified in the Trade Boards (Tailoring) Order 1926, (a) and set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.
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(a) S.R. & O., 1926, No, 9.
2. (a) The Trade Board shall consist of not less than 11 and not more than 17 persons.
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(b) The number of representative members shall be not less than 10 and not more than 14. The representative members shall be members representing employers and members representing workers in equal numbers.
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(c) The number of appointed members shall be at least one and not more than three.
3. (a) The Chairman shall be appointed by the Minister for Industry and Commerce from among the members of the Trade Board.
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(b) If the Minister for Industry and Commerce considers the appointment of a Deputy Chairman desirable he shall appoint a Deputy Chairman from the remaining members of the Trade Board.
4. (a) The appointed member or members shall be such one or more of the appointed members of Trade Boards, not exceeding three, as may be directed by the Minister for Industry and Commerce to act on the Trade Board.
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(b) At least one of the appointed members shall be a woman, and if only one appointed member is directed to act that one shall be a woman.
5. The selection and appointment of representative members shall be as follows, due regard being paid to the representation of the various branches of the trade and of the various districts in which the trade is carried on:—
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(a) Five members representing employers in the trade shall be appointed by the Minister for Industry and Commerce after considering names supplied by such employers.
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(b) Five members representing workers in the trade shall be appointed by the Minister for Industry and Commerce after considering names supplied by such workers.
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6. The Minister for Industry and Commerce may, if he thinks it necessary in order to secure proper representation of any class or classes of employers or workers, after giving the Trade Board an opportunity to be heard, appoint additional representative members to serve upon the Trade Board. The number of such additional representative members shall always be an even number not exceeding four in all. Half shall be representatives of employers and half shall be representatives of workers.
7. Any member representing employers who ceases to be an employer and becomes a worker at the trade shall vacate his seat. Any member representing workers who becomes an employer in the trade shall vacate his seat. The question of fact shall in each case be determined by the Minister for Industry and Commerce.
8. Any member who, in the opinion of the Minister for Industry and Commerce, fails without reasonable cause to attend one-half of the total number of meetings in a calendar year shall vacate his seat.
9. If, in the opinion of the Minister for Industry and Commerce, any member shall be incapable of acting as a member of the Trade Board, the Minister for Industry and Commerce may determine his appointment, and he shall thereupon vacate his seat.
10. A vacancy among members shall be filled in the same manner as in the case of the original appointment to the vacated seat.
11. (a) Subject as hereinafter provided, every member of the Trade Board shall have one vote.
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(b) If at any meeting of the Board the numbers of members present representing employers and workers are unequal, it shall be open to the side which is in the majority to arrange that one or more of its members shall refrain from voting so as to preserve equality. Failing such an arrangement, the Chairman, or in his absence the Deputy Chairman if one has been appointed, may, if he thinks it desirable, adjourn the voting on any question to another meeting of the Board.
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(c) If the number of appointed members directed to act on the Trade Board is two, the Chairman shall have a second or casting vote on any question on which the voting is otherwise equal.
12. The Trade Board shall continue in existence until dissolved by order of the Minister for Industry and Commerce.
13. The Trade Board may be known under the short title of "The Tailoring Trade Board (Irish Free State)."
14. These Regulations shall take effect on the 31st day of March, 1926, and as from that date the several Regulations dated the 1st day of January, 1922, with respect to the constitution and proceedings of the Ready-made and Wholesale Bespoke Tailoring Trade Board (Southern Ireland), (a) of the Retail Bespoke Tailoring Trade Board (Southern Ireland), (b) and of the Hat, Cap and Millinery Trade Board (Southern Ireland), (c) are hereby revoked.
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(a) S. R. & O., 1922, No. 16.
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(b) S. R. & O. 1922, No. 17.
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(c) S. R. & O., 1922, No. 11.
15. Any questions upon the construction or interpretation of these Regulations shall, in the event of a dispute, be referred to the Minister of Industry and Commerce for decision.
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Given under the Official Seal of the Minister for Industry and Commerce this thirty-first day of March, in the year one thousand nine hundred and twenty-six.
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GORDON CAMPBELL,
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Secretary.
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Department of Industry and Commerce.
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SCHEDULE.
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THE TAILORING TRADE, that is to say:—
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Men's and boys' readymade and wholesale bespoke tailoring ; men's and boys' retail bespoke tailoring, carried on in a factory where garments are made up for three or more retail establishments ; and the making from any material of men's or male children's headgear :
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Including ;
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(1) (a) the altering, repairing, renovating or remaking of men's or boys' tailored garments, where carried out in association with, or in conjunction with, the above-mentioned branches of tailoring :
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(b) the cleaning of such garments where carried out in association with or in conjunction with the altering, repairing, renovating, or remaking of such garments :
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(2) The lining with fur of the above-mentioned garments where carried out in association with or in conjunction with the making of such garments :
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(3) All processes of embroidery or decorative needlework where carried out in association with or in conjunction with the above-mentioned branches of tailoring :
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(4) All warehousing, packing and other operations incidental to or appertaining to any of the above-mentioned branches of tailoring.
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But excluding :
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(1) The making of rubberised or oilskin garments, and the making of rubberised or oilskin head-gear, where carried out in association with or in conjunction with the making of other rubberised or oilskin garments :
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(2) The making of boys' readymade washing suits or sailor suits where carried out in association with or in conjunction with the making of garments to be worn by women or girls or by children without distinction of sex :
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(3) The making of knitted head-gear and the making of head-gear from knitted fabrics where carried out in association with or in conjunction with the manufacture of knitted fabrics :
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(4) The casting and making of solid metal helmets :
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(5) The making of chefs' caps and similar articles :
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(6) The making of fur hats where made in association with or in conjunction with the manufacture of furs or furriers' skins into garments, rugs or similar articles.
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