S.I. No. 168/1938 - Apprenticeship Act, 1931. Apprenticeship Committee For The Furniture Trade (Dublin) Confirmation of Rules Order, 1938.

1. MAKING, ALTERING or REPAIRING of articles, made wholly or mainly of wood, bamboo, or cane, which are intended for use as furniture, and the POLISHING, CARVING and OTHER ORNAMENTATION of such articles.

2. UPHOLSTERING of articles which are intended for use as furniture, whether such articles are made of wood or of a substance other than wood, and the altering or repairing of the upholstery of such articles.

3. UPHOLSTERING of seats and seating : for Theatres, Cinemas, Halls and other places of amusement or assembly, and the altering or repairing of the upholstery of such seats and seating.

4. MAKING, altering or repairing of curtains and draperies, loose covers and window furnishings, and the fixing of floor coverings.

5. MAKING, altering or repairing of mattresses, palliasses, cushions, seats filled with hair, fibre, straw, flock, wool, rubber or other substitute for hair. Including : the operation of teasing hair.

6. MAKING, altering or repairing of box spring, cane edge, cane laced, interior spring and reversible mattresses, cushions and seats.

Including : any of the operations of sawmilling, machining, turning and veneering of wood, staining, enamelling, painting, japanning, lacquering, spraying, and any other like operation, if such operation be ancillary to, and carried on in the same premises as, any of the processes mentioned in preceding paragraphs of this Part.

But excluding : the making of Spiral Springs.

STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS. 1938. No. 168.

APPRENTICESHIP ACT, 1931.APPRENTICESHIP COMMITTEE FOR THE FURNITURE TRADE (DUBLIN) CONFIRMATION OF RULES ORDER, 1938.

THE APPRENTICESHIP COMMITTEE FOR THE FURNITURE TRADE (DUBLIN) CONFIRMATION OF RULES ORDER, 1938, MADE BY THE MINISTER FOR INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE ON THE 2ND DAY OF MAY, 1938, PURSUANT TO SUB-SECTION (1) OF

SECTION 9

of THE

APPRENTICESHIP ACT, 1931

.

WHEREAS the Apprenticeship Committee for the Furniture Trade (Dublin) established in accordance with the Furniture Trade (Constitution of Apprenticeship Committee) Regulations, 1934, for the particular trade declared by the Apprenticeship Act (Furniture Trade) Special Order, 1934, to be a designated trade for the purposes of the

Apprenticeship Act, 1931

, and in the area constituted by the Apprenticeship Act (Furniture Trade) Apprenticeship District Order, 1934, to be an apprenticeship district for the purposes of such designated trade (namely the administrative County of Dublin and the County Borough of Dublin) has, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Section 8 of the said Act, made the rules set out in the Schedule to this Order, and has submitted the same to the Minister for Industry and Commerce.

AND WHEREAS it is enacted by sub-section (1) of Section 9 of the said Act that the Minister for Industry and Commerce may, in respect of any rule submitted to him by an apprenticeship committee under the said Act, either by order confirm such rule or refuse to confirm such rule.

NOW, THEREFORE, the Minister for Industry and Commerce in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sub-section (1) of

Section 9

of the

Apprenticeship Act, 1931

, and of every and any other power him in this behalf enabling, hereby orders as follows, that is to say :—