S.I. No. 50/1940 - Conditions of Employment (Maintenance of Machinery and Plant) (Repair of Moulds For Glass Bottles) (Period of Rest) Regulations 1940.

STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS. 1940. No. 50.

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT (MAINTENANCE OF MACHINERY AND PLANT) (REPAIR OF MOULDS FOR GLASS BOTTLES) (PERIOD OF REST) REGULATIONS 1940.

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 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 (Maintenance of Machinery and Plant) (Exclusion) Order, 1936 (Statutory Rules and Orders, No. 163 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, the Minister for Industry and Commerce, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by subsection (4) of Section 49 of the Conditions of Employment Act, 1936 (No. 2 of 1936), and of every and any other power him in his behalf enabling, hereby makes the following regulations :—

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Conditions of Employment (Maintenance of Machinery and Plant) (Repair of Moulds for Glass Bottles) (Period of Rest) Regulations, 1940.

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.

The industrial work done by fitters engaged on the repair of moulds for use in the manufacture of glass bottles.

Given under the Official Seal of the Minister for Industry and Commerce this 12th day of January, 1940.

R.C. FERGUSON,

Secretary,

Department of Industry and Commerce.