S.I. No. 249/1945 - Apprenticeship Act (Hairdressing Trade) Special Order, 1945.

STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS. 1945. No. 249.

APPRENTICESHIP ACT (HAIRDRESSING TRADE) SPECIAL ORDER, 1945.

The Minister for Industry and Commerce, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 2 of the Apprenticeship Act, 1931 (No. 56 of 1931), and of every and any other power him in this behalf enabling, hereby orders as follows :—

1 Short title

1. This Order may be cited as the Apprenticeship Act (Hairdressing Trade) Special Order, 1945.

2 Interpretation

2. The Interpretation Act, 1937 (No. 38 of 1937), applies to this Order.

3 Declaration of designated trade

3. The trade specified in the Schedule to this Order is hereby declared to be a designated trade for the purposes of the Apprenticeship Act, 1931 (No. 56 of 1931), in the county borough of Cork.

SCHEDULE.

THE HAIRDRESSING TRADE, that is to say :—

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 assocation 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, haircutting cloths or similar articles when incidental to and performed by workers also engaged in any of the operations specified in paragraph 1 above.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Industry and Commerce, this 27th day of September, 1945.

(Signed) JOHN LEYDON.

Secretary,

Department of Industry and Commerce.