S.I. No. 108/1954 - Conditions of Employment (Electricity Undertakings) (Period of Rest) Regulations, 1954.

S.I. No. 108 of 1954.

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT (ELECTRICITY UNDERTAKINGS) (PERIOD OF REST) REGULATIONS, 1954.

WHEREAS it is enacted by subsection (3) of section 49 of the Conditions of Employment Act, 1936 (No. 2 of 1936), that if an employer employs any worker to do on the Sunday in any week any industrial work to which the prohibition effected by subsection (1) of the said section does not apply, such employer, if such worker remains in his employment for such week, shall allow to him twenty-four consecutive hours of rest before the next following Sunday :

AND WHEREAS it is enacted by subsection (4) of the said section that the said Minister for Industry and Commerce may, if he so thinks proper, by order make regulations permitting, in respect of any particular form of industrial work, the period of twenty-four consecutive hours' rest mentioned in subsection (3) of the said section to be given to any worker within seven days after the Sunday on which such worker was so employed as to be entitled under the said subsection (3) to such period of rest :

AND WHEREAS by virtue of the Conditions of Employment (Electricity Undertakings) (Exclusion) Order, 1936 ( S. R. & O. No. 162 of 1936 ), the prohibition effected by subsection (1) of section 49 of the said Act does not apply to the form of industrial work to which these Regulations apply :

NOW, I, SEAN F. LEMASS, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by subsection (4) of section 49 of the Conditions of Employment Act, 1936 (No. 2 of 1936), and of every and any other power me in this behalf enabling, hereby make the following regulations :—

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Conditions of Employment (Electricity Undertakings) (Period of Rest) Regulations, 1954.

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

3. The period of twenty-four consecutive hours' rest mentioned in subsection (3) of section 49 of the Conditions of Employment Act, 1936 (No. 2 of 1936), may, in the case of the form of industrial work specified in the Schedule to these Regulations, be given to any worker within seven days after the Sunday on which such worker was so employed as to be entitled under the said subsection to such period of rest.

SCHEDULE.

Work done for or in connection with the generation, transformation, transmission, distribution or control of electricity for supply to consumers, other than the work of installation in consumers' premises.

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 19th day of May, 1954.

SEAN F. LEMASS,

Minister for Industry and Commerce.