S.I. No. 196/1938 - Apprenticeship Committee For The Hairdressing Trade (Dublin) (Confirmation of Rules) Order, 1938.

STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS. 1938. No. 196.

APPRENTICESHIP COMMITTEE FOR THE HAIRDRESSING TRADE (DUBLIN) (CONFIRMATION OF RULES) ORDER, 1938.

THE APPRENTICESHIP COMMITTEE FOR THE HAIRDRESSING TRADE (DUBLIN) CONFIRMATION OF RULES ORDER, 1938, MADE BY THE MINISTER FOR INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE ON THE 16TH DAY OF JUNE, 1938, PURSUANT TO SUB-SECTION (1) OF SECTION 9 of THE APPRENTICESHIP ACT, 1931 .

WHEREAS the Apprenticeship Committee for the Hairdressing Trade (Dublin), established in accordance with the Hairdressing Trade (Constitution of Apprenticeship Committee) Regulations, 1934, for the particular trade declared by the Apprenticeship Act (Hairdressing Trade) Special Order, 1934, to be a designated trade for the purposes of the Apprenticeship Act, 1931 , and in the area constituted by the Apprenticeship Act (Hairdressing Trade) Apprenticeship District Order, 1934, to be an apprenticeship district for the purposes of such designated trade (namely the administrative County of Dublin and the County Borough of Dublin), has, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Section 8 of the said Act, made the rules set out in the Schedule to this Order, and has submitted the same to the Minister for Industry and Commerce :

AND WHEREAS it is enacted by sub-section (1) of Section 9 of the said Act that the Minister for Industry and Commerce may, in respect of any rule submitted to him by an apprenticeship committee under the said Act, either by order confirm such rule or refuse to confirm such rule :

NOW THEREFORE the Minister for Industry and Commerce in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sub-section (1) of Section 9 of the Apprenticeship Act, 1931 , and of every and any other power him in this behalf enabling, hereby orders as follows, that is to say :—

1. This Order may be cited for all purposes as the Apprenticeship Committee for the Hairdressing Trade (Dublin) Confirmation of Rules Order, 1938.

2. The rules set out in the Schedule to this Order are hereby confirmed.

3. The rules set out in the Schedule to this Order shall come into force on the 1st day of July, 1938.

By Order of the Minister for Industry and Commerce.

Dated this 16th day of June, 1938.

(Signed) JOHN LEYDON,

Secretary,

Department of Industry and Commerce.

SCHEDULE.

Rules made by the Apprenticeship Committee for the Hairdressing Trade (Dublin) on the 15th June, 1937.

PART I.—RULES REGULATING THE EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS OF APPRENTICES.

The Committee prescribe :—

(1) That each person entering on employment by way of apprenticeship in the Trade who has not been in any employment between the ages of 14 and 16 years, must have attended regularly, after the attainment of the age of 14 years, at an approved course of instruction, as defined at (a) hereunder, and must supply his employer with a certificate to that effect, such certificate to be signed by the headmaster of the school in which the instruction was given.

(2) That each person entering on employment by way of apprenticeship in the Trade who has been in beneficial employment between the ages of 14 and 16 years, must have attended regularly, after the attainment of the age of 14 years, at an approved course of instruction, as defined at (b) hereunder, and must supply his employer with a certificate to that effect, such certificate to be signed by the headmaster of the school in which the instruction was given.

Definition of an approved course of instruction.

For the purpose of these rules, an approved course of instruction shall be :—

The above Rules shall apply only to persons who were under 14 years of age at the date on which the Rules came into force.

PART II.—DEFINITION OF THE TRADE.

The Hairdressing Trade is defined in the First Schedule to the Apprenticeship Act (Hairdressing Trade) Special Order, 1934, as being :—

(1) Any of the following operations, when performed in or in connection with any business, establishment, branch or department, carried on by way of trade or for the purpose of gain, viz. :—

lathering, shaving, sponging, cutting, singeing, shampooing, brushing, combing, waving, dressing, tinting, dyeing, bleaching or similar operations performed on hair growing on human beings.

(2) Any of the following operations when performed in or in connection with any business, establishment, branch or department in which any of the operations specified in paragraph 1 above are the main or principal business of the business, establishment, branch or department, viz. :—

(a) the designing, making or renovating of wigs, whiskers, beards, moustaches, fringes, toupees, switches, pads, frames, pincurls, partings, transformations or similar articles for human use or adornment ;

(b) the making of hair-lace or hair-net for use as a foundation for any of the articles mentioned in sub-paragraph (a) above ;

(c) the arrangement of displays in windows and the treatment and ornamentation of wax figures and other artificial models.

(3) Any of the following or similar operations preparatory to the making or renovating of the articles mentioned in paragraph 2 above, when performed in or in connection with any business, establishment, branch or department in which any of the operations specified in paragraph 1 above are the main or principal business of the business, establishment, branch or department, viz. :— operations known in the trade as—

measuring, cleaning, drying, sorting, carding, drawing, mounting, mixing, weaving, sewing, knotting, dressing, craping, tinting, dyeing, matching, curling, plaiting.

Including :—

(a) the making or designing of wigs for dolls when carried on in or in association with or in conjunction with any business, establishment, branch or department engaged in any of the operations included in paragraph 1 above, by workers who are also engaged in any of the operations included in the said paragraph ;

(b) razor-setting, hand or vibro massage, perfuming, electric treatment, depilatory operations, chiropody, manicure, and all operations pertaining to the treatment of diseases of the hair requiring a knowledge of trichology, when carried on in association with or in conjunction with any of the operations included in paragraph 1 above ;

(c) the retail sale of any articles when transacted in association with or in conjunction with any of the operations included in paragraph 1 above, by workers also engaged in any of the operations specified above ;

(d) the following or similar operations, when performed by workers also engaged in any of the operations in paragraph 1 above, viz. :— operations known in the trade as—

(i) bottling, boxing, parcelling, bagging, packeting, labelling, packing, checking, unpacking ;

(ii) weighing, measuring, mixing, filtering and compounding

(iii) polishing, cutting, grinding, crushing ;

(iv) collecting, delivering, despatching ;

(v) storing, stock-keeping, warehousing, portering, cleaning premises ;

(vi) cleaning or adjusting implements, cleaning utensils or receptacles ;

(e) the washing, ironing or drying of towels, hair-cutting cloths or similar articles when incidental to and performed by workers also engaged in any of the operations specified in paragraph 1 above.