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The period of night.
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4.—(1) The Minister, after consultation with persons who in his opinion are representative of employers interested in bakeries and with persons who in his opinion are representative of workers so interested, may by order make regulations prescribing in accordance with this section a period of not less than seven hours as the period of night for the purposes of this Act and the Minister may, if he so thinks fit, fix different such periods in respect of different parts of the year and in respect of different specified areas.
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(2) Every period prescribed as the period of night by regulations made under this section shall include the special period which, subject to the provisions of this section, shall be the period between eleven o'clock p.m. on any day and five o'clock a.m. on the next following day.
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(3) The period prescribed as the period of night by any regulations made under this section, while such regulations remain in force, shall be the period of night for the purposes of this Act.
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(4) The Minister may by order make regulations substituting either generally or for a particular part of the year and either for the whole of Saorstát Eireann or for a specified area, the period between ten o'clock p.m. on any day and four o'clock a.m. on the next following day for the period between eleven o'clock p.m. on any day and five o'clock a.m. on the next following day as the special period for the purpose of this section if—
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(a) the Minister is of opinion that the climate or any particular season requires such substitution, or
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(b) the Minister is satisfied that organisations of employers and of workers interested in bakeries are agreed that such substitution should be made,
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and whenever any such regulations are for the time being in force the period so substituted thereby shall be the special period for the purpose of this section either (as the case may be) generally or for the particular part of the year specified in such regulations.
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(5) Whenever the Minister has, under this section, power to make regulations in respect of specified areas the Minister may by such regulations specify such areas in such manner as he may think fit.
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(6) The Minister shall, by every order made under this section, fix the date on which such order shall come into operation, which date shall not in any case be less than fourteen days after the date on which such order is made.
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