Social Welfare (Consolidation) Act, 1981

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Employment in the building, civil engineering and painting trades.

[1942 IU, s. 3; S.I. No. 82 of 1955 ]

235.—(1) In this Part “employment in the building trade” means employment on work of a kind commonly undertaken or carried out by builders or building contractors, and includes employment on work of the following descriptions—

(a) all work in the construction, reconstruction, alteration, repair, painting, decoration or demolition of buildings;

(b) all work in the installation, alteration, fitting, repair, painting, decoration, maintenance or demolition in any building or its site of articles, fittings, pipes, containers, tubes, wires or instruments (including central heating apparatus or machinery or fuel containers connected thereto), for the heating, lighting, power or water supply of such building but excluding work in the construction or laying of public mains for the supply of water, gas or electricity or the connection of buildings and their sites with such mains.

(c) all work usually carried out or undertaken by a builder or building contractor—

(i) in the clearing and laying out of sites for buildings,

(ii) in the construction of foundations on such sites,

(iii) in the construction, reconstruction, repair and maintenance within such sites of all sewers, drains or other works for use in connection with the sanitation of buildings or the disposal of waste,

(iv) in the erection on such sites of boundary walls or fences for the use, protection or ornamentation of buildings, and

(v) in the making of roads and paths within the boundaries of such sites;

(d) all work in the manufacture, alteration, fitting or repair of articles of wood, worked stone, marble, slate, plaster, cement (including concrete blocks) or of cement-like material, for use in the construction, reconstruction, alteration, fitting, repair, decoration or maintenance of buildings and of a type commonly made in builders' workshops or yards, but excluding—

(i) the manufacture, alteration or repair of any article or monument designed as a memorial to living or dead persons,

(ii) the quarrying and cutting of slate at a quarry,

(iii) the quarrying in rough blocks of marble or stone,

(iv) the manufacture of articles of movable furniture,

(v) the manufacture of articles requiring treatment in an oven or kiln in the process of manufacture,

(vi) the manufacture of sewer pipes, drain pipes, bricks, floor tiles, roof tiles, and

(vii) the manufacture of articles composed wholly or mainly of a combination of cement and asbestos.

(2) “Employment in the civil engineering trade” means employment on work of a kind commonly undertaken or carried out by civil engineering or public works contractors and includes employment on work of the following descriptions—

(a) the construction, reconstruction, alteration, repair, painting, decoration or demolition of—

(i) roads, paths, kerbs, bridges, viaducts, aqueducts, harbours, docks, wharves, piers, jetties, quays, promenades, landing places, lighthouses, beacons, sea defences, airports, railroads, tunnels, tramways or canals,

(ii) waterworks, reservoirs, filter beds, wells, works for the production of gas or electricity, sewage works, public mains for the supply of water, gas or electricity or for the disposal of sewage and all work in the connection of buildings and their sites with such mains,

(iii) river works, dams, weirs, embankments, breakwaters, moles, works for the purpose of land or road or river drainage, land reclamation or the prevention of coastal erosion, and

(iv) sports-grounds, playgrounds, tennis courts, ball alleys, swimming pools and public baths or bathing places in concrete, stone, tarmacadam, asphalt, or such like material;

(b) the erection or laying, alteration, repair, painting, decoration or demolition of poles, masts, standards, pylons, wires or cables for telephone, telegraph or radio communication or for broadcasting; and

(c) ground levelling, ground formation or drainage in connection with the construction or reconstruction of grass sports-grounds, public parks, playing fields, tennis courts, golf links, playgrounds, race courses and greyhound racing tracks, but excluding the sowing of grass seed on such grounds,

(3) “Employment in the painting trade” means employment on work of a kind commonly undertaken or carried out by painting contractors.