S.I. No. 19/1968 - Conditions of Employment (Yarn Processing) (Exclusion) Regulations, 1968.

S.I. No. 19 of 1968.

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT (YARN PROCESSING) (EXCLUSION) REGULATIONS, 1968.

I, P. S. Ó hIRIGHILE, Minister for Labour, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by sections 29 and 52 of the Conditions of Employment Act, 1936 (No. 2 of 1936), and the Labour (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order, 1966 ( S.I. No. 164 of 1966 ), and after consultation with representatives of employers interested in the form of industrial work hereinafter specified and with representatives of workers so interested, hereby make the following regulations:—

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Conditions of Employment (Yarn Processing) (Exclusion) Regulations, 1968.

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

3. The following form of industrial work, namely, the processing of yarns of man-made fibres of continuous filament, is hereby declared to be excluded industrial work for the purpose of section 47 of the Conditions of Employment Act, 1936 (No. 2 of 1936).

4. The following provisions shall have effect in respect of the work to which these Regulations relate:—

( a ) no male young person under the age of seventeen nor any young female person under the age of eighteen shall be employed to do any such work at any time between the hours of 8 p.m. on any day and the hour of 8 a.m. on the following day;

( b ) no young person shall be employed to do any such work at any time between the hour of 10 p.m. on any day and the hour of 6 a.m. on the following day;

( c ) no young person shall be so employed on any day until after the expiration of eleven hours from the time at which such person ceased to do industrial work on the previous day.

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 23rd day of January, 1968.

P. S. Ó hIRIGHILE,

Minister for Labour.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

The Conditions of Employment Act, 1936 , provides that young persons may be employed in industrial work between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. only.

The purpose of these regulations is to permit male young persons who have reached seventeen years of age to be employed on licensed shift work between the hours of 6 a.m. and 10 p.m. in the processing of yarns of man-made fibres of continuous filament.