S.I. No. 18/1953 - Social Welfare (Subsidiary Employments) Regulations, 1953.

S.I. No. 18 of 1953.

SOCIAL WELFARE (SUBSIDIARY EMPLOYMENTS) REGULATIONS, 1953.

The Minister for Social Welfare in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 3 of and paragraph 5 of Part II of the First Schedule to the Social Welfare Act, 1952 (No. 11 of 1952), and of all other powers enabling him in this behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations :—

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Social Welfare (Subsidiary Employments) Regulations, 1953.

2. The employments of the several classes set forth in the Schedule hereto are herby specified as being employment of such a nature that they are ordinarily adopted as subsidiary employments only and not as the principal means of livelihood.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Social Welfare this 5th day of January, 1953.

SÉAMAS Ó RIAIN,

Minister for Social Welfare.

SCHEDULE.

1. Any employment adopted by a person who is ordinarily and mainly dependent for his livelihood on an employment which is an excepted employment by virtue of paragraph 1, 2 or 4 of Part II of the First Schedule to the Social Welfare Act, 1952 .

2. Employment, involving occasional attendance only, under the Department of Justice, as interpreter at sittings of a Court of Justice.

3. Employment, involving occasional service only, under the Revenue Commissioners, as a woman searcher.

4. Employment as attendant at or in connection with examinations held by the Department of Education.

5. Employment, involving occasional service only, under the Department of Lands in the handling of kelp or seaweed.

6. Employment, involving occasional service only, under the Department of Social Welfare, as attendant on a District Medical Referee.

7. Employment as attendant at or in connection with examinations held by the Civil Service Commissioners or by the Local Appointments Commission.

8. Employment, involving occasional service only, as mace-bearer.

9. Employment as presiding officer or as poll clerk at presidential elections, general elections, bye-elections, local elections or at referenda.

10. Employment, involving part-time service only :—

(a) as civilian in charge of a rocket cliff-ladder life-saving apparatus and equipment connected therewith, being the property of the Department of Industry and Commerce ;

(b) in or with a volunteer company enrolled for the purpose of working a rocket cliff-ladder life-saving apparatus ; or

(c) in keeping a look-out in connection with the Coast Life Saving Service for wrecks or signals of distress at sea.

11. Employment, involving part-time service only, by a local or general lighthouse authority or dock, harbour or conservancy authority or board, in connection with the care or upkeep of minor lights, buoys, beacons, signals and tide-guages.

12. Employment, involving part-time service only, as caretaker, where no wages are paid, or where no other money payments are made.

13. Employment in agriculture, involving part-time service only, in respect of which no wages or other money payment is made where the employed person is maintained by the employer.

14. Employment, involving part-time service only, at race meetings by the Racing Board of a person, other than a person who has no other occupation.

15. Employment as sub-postmaster remunerated by scale payment of a person other than a person who renders, on the average, eighteen or more hours personal service in each week in that capacity and who is mainly dependent for his livelihood on the earnings derived by him from such employment.

16. Employment in any of the following employments where the employment involves, on the average, personal attendance of less than 18 hours in the week :—

(a) employment as collector or deliverer of postal packets under the designation of allowance deliverer ;

(b) employment as messenger carrying Post Office mails on station or pier service.

17 Employment, involving part-time service only, as a teacher by a Vocational Education Committee, where the person employed is not mainly dependent for his livelihood on the earnings derived by him from such employment.