S.I. No. 392/1947 - Apprenticeship Committee For The Furniture Trade (Dublin) (Confirmation of Rules) Order, 1947.

STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS. 1947. No. 392.

APPRENTICESHIP COMMITTEE FOR THE FURNITURE TRADE (DUBLIN) (CONFIRMATION OF RULES) ORDER, 1947.

WHEREAS it is enacted by subsection (5) of section 8 of the Apprenticeship Act, 1931 (No. 56 of 1931), that every rule made by an apprenticeship committee under that section shall be submitted to the Minister for Industry and Commerce as soon as may be after it is made and no such rule shall be of any force or effect unless or until it is confirmed by order of the Minister :

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

AND WHEREAS the Apprenticeship Committee for the Furniture Trade (Dublin), being an apprenticeship committee established by the said Act, have, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 8 of the said Act, made the Rules set out in the Schedule to this Order, and have duly submitted those rules to the Minister for Industry and Commerce for confirmation by him in accordance with the said Act :

NOW, the Minister for Industry and Commerce, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by subsection (1) of section 9 of the Apprenticeship Act, 1931 (No. 56 of 1931), hereby orders as follows :—

1. This Order may be cited as the Apprenticeship Committee for the Furniture Trade (Dublin) (Confirmation of Rules) Order, 1947.

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

3. The Rules set out in the Schedule to this Order are hereby confirmed and shall come into operation on the 8th day of December, 1947.

SCHEDULE.

RULES MADE BY THE APPRENTICESHIP COMMITTEE FOR THE FURNITURE TRADE (DUBLIN) ON THE 22ND DAY OF AUGUST, 1947.

PART I.

Rules Regulating the Age of Entry on Apprenticeship.

The Committee prescribe that the employment of a person by way of apprenticeship in the Trade in the Apprenticeship District may commence on the attainment of 14 years, and before the attainment of 18 years.

PART II.

Rules Regulating the Minimum Rates of Wages.

The Rules of the Apprenticeship Committee for the Furniture Trade (Dublin) as set out in their Notice F. (R. 15)) dated 23rd December, 1946, are hereby amended as follows : that is to say, by the deletion of the Rules comprised under the heading "Rules Regulating the Minimum Rates of Wages", and by the substitution therefor of the following :—

The Committee specify hereunder the minimum rates of wages (other than wages for overtime) to be paid to male and female apprentices in the Trade in the Apprenticeship District.

Provided :—

(a) that the above rates shall be payable, in the case of apprentices of 18 years of age or over, per week of 44 hours and, in the case of apprentices whose age is less than 18 years, per week of 40 hours;

(b) that a male apprentice who has attended a Junior Day Technical School Course for a period of two years shall, on being taken into employment in the Trade, be regarded, for the purpose of determining the rate of wages payable to him, as being in his second year of apprenticeship;

(c) that, for the purpose of calculating the minimum rate per hour to which an apprentice is entitled, the minimum rate per week to which the apprentice is entitled under these Rules shall be divided by the maximum number of hours which may be worked in any week by the apprentice under Part IV of Notice F. (R. 15); and

(d) that the above minimum rates are without prejudice to the payment of higher rates by agreement or otherwise.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Industry and Commerce, this 26th day of November, 1947.

(Signed) JOHN LEYDON,

Secretary,

Department of Industry and Commerce.