S.I. No. 366/1979 - Conditions of Employment (Manufacture of Wire Nails Industry) (Exclusion) Regulations, 1979.
S.I. No. 366 of 1979. | ||
CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT (MANUFACTURE OF WIRE NAILS INDUSTRY) (EXCLUSION) REGULATIONS, 1979. | ||
I, GENE FITZGERALD, 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 specified in these Regulations and with representatives of workers so interested, hereby make the following regulations: 1. These Regulations may be cited as the Conditions of Employment (Manufacture of Wire Nails Industry) (Exclusion) Regulations, 1979. 2. The Interpretation Act, 1937 (No. 38 of 1937), applies to these Regulations. 3. The following form of industrial work, namely, the manufacture of wire nails as carried on, by young persons aged 15 years and over, at the premises of Irish Wire Products Limited, Dock Road, Limerick, in the county of Limerick, is hereby declared to be excluded industrial work for the purposes 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 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 of8 a.m. the following morning; | ||
( b ) no young person shall be employed on any day until the expiration of twelve hours from the time at which he ceased to do industrial work the previous day. | ||
GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 13th day of November, 1979. | ||
GENE FITZGERALD, | ||
Minister for Labour. | ||
EXPLANATORY NOTE. | ||
Section 47 of the Conditions of Employment Act, 1936 prohibits the employment of young persons between the hours of 8 p.m. on one day and 8 a.m. the following day. The effect of these Regulations is to permit the employment of young persons aged 15 and over between the hours of 8 a.m. and 10 p.m. on the manufacture of wire nails as carried on at the premises of Irish Wire Products Ltd., Dock Road, Limerick. |