S.I. No. 43/1948 - Night Work (Bakeries) (Exceptional Work For Limited Periods) Regulations, 1948.

S.I. No. 43 of 1948.

NIGHT WORK (BAKERIES) (EXCEPTIONAL WORK FOR LIMITED PERIODS) REGULATIONS, 1948.

WHEREAS it is enacted by sub-section (2) of Section 5 of the Night Work (Bakeries) Act, 1936 (No. 42 of 1936), that the Minister for Industry and Commerce may, 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, by order make regulations prescribing as exceptional work for a limited period specified in such regulations all or any of the processes of manufacture carried on in any bakery to which that Act applies if the carrying on of such processes in the period of night is in the opinion of the said Minister necessary for the carrying on of such bakery during such period owing to :—

(a) an unusual pressure of work, or

(b) national emergency,

and whenever the said Minister makes such regulations any process of manufacture prescribed thereby as exceptional work shall, for the period specified in such regulations, be exceptional work for the purposes of the said Act ;

AND WHEREAS the Minister for Industry and Commerce is of opinion that the carrying on of all the processes of manufacture carried on in any bakery to which the said Act Applies in the period of night is necessary for the carrying on of such bakery during each of the several periods specified in the Schedule to these Regulations owing to an unusual pressure of work :

AND WHEREAS the Minister for Industry and Commerce has, before making these Regulations, consulted persons who in his opinion are representative of employers interested in bakeries and persons who in his opinion are representative of workers so interested in relation thereto :

NOW, the Minister for Industry and Commerce, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sub-section (2) of Section 5 of the Night Work (Bakeries) Act, 1936 (No. 42 of 1936), and of every and any other power him in this behalf enabling, hereby orders and makes the following Regulations :—

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Night Work (Bakeries) (Exceptional Work for Limited Periods) Regulations, 1948.

2. The Interpretation Act, 1937 (No. 38 of 1937), applies to these Regulations.

3. All the processes of manufacture carried on in any bakery to which the Night Work (Bakeries) Act, 1936 (No. 42 of 1936), applies shall be exceptional work during each of the periods specified in the Schedule to these Regulations.

SCHEDULE.

LIMITED PERIOD OF EXCEPTIONAL WORK.

1. The period from 10 p.m., 9th February, 1948, to 6 a.m. 11th February, 1948.

2. The period from midnight 14th March, 1948, to 6 a.m. 16th March, 1948.

3. The period from 10 p.m. 22nd March, 1948, to 6 a.m. 27th March, 1948.

4. The period from 10 p.m. 13th May, 1948, to 6 a.m. 15th May, 1948.

5. The period from 10 p.m. 29th July, 1948, to 6 a.m. 31st July, 1948.

6. The period from 10 p.m. 20th October, 1948, to 6 a.m. 23rd October, 1948.

7. The period from midnight 24th October, 1948, to 6 a.m. 30th October, 1948.

8. The period from midnight 5th December, 1948, to 6 a.m. 11th December, 1948.

9. The period from midnight 12th December, 1948, to 6 a.m. 18th December, 1948.

10. The period from midnight 19th December, 1948, to 6 a.m. 24th December, 1948.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Industry and Commerce, this 26th day of January, 1948.

(Signed) JOHN LEYDON,

Secretary,

Department of Industry and Commerce,

A person authorised under Section 15 (1) of the Ministers and Secretaries Act, 1924 , to authenticate the Seal of the said Minister.