S.I. No. 127/1956 - Apprenticeship Committee For The House Painting and Decorating Trade (Confirmation of Rules) Order, 1956.

1. Painting and Distempering.

(a) The application of paint, distemper or other medium of any kind to any surface by manual or mechanical process, and the preparatory mixing of such paint, distemper or other medium for the purpose of producing various finishes.

(b) The preparation of the grounds and all operations (including the removal of paint, knotting, priming, stopping, filling up, surfacing and washing) preparatory to the application of such paint, distemper or other medium.

(c) Dusting, cleaning or washing for purposes of restoration or renovation when done on any surface either apart from or in conjunction or in association with operations involving the application of paint, distemper or other medium.

(d) Hacking-out, puttying and glazing when such operations are performed in conjunction or in association with operations involving the application of paint, distemper or other medium.

2. Papering and Whitening.

(a) The hanging and application of wallpaper and other hangings including textile fabrics, imitation leather papers, Japanese grass cloth and relief materials.

(b) The papering or whitening of ceilings.

3. Imitation Painting.

The operations of graining (including processes by roller and transfer), marbling, gilding, graniting, and also the representation of inlays, marqueterie, mosaic, ivory, bronze, and other imitational paintings.

4. Decorative Painting.

Striping, lining and outlining, stippling, stencilling (including the designing and cutting of stencils) oil gilding, matt and burnish gilding, glazing, scumbling, gesso, representation of tapestry, painting or distempering in monochrome or in polychrome or in raised or sanded decorative style.

5. Lettering.

Letter-writing and embossing, gilding and colouring on glass, heraldic painting and the treatment and fixing by adhesive composition of letters made of wood or other substance.

6. Staining.

The preparation, mixing and application of stains, ornamental and decorative staining, chemical staining, oil and wax polishing.

7. Varnishing.

The application of spirit oil, gum, cellulose or varnish by manual or mechanical means, including the processes of felting down and hand polishing, flatting and encaustic varnishing.

INCLUDING

The necessary preparatory processes in connection with the work detailed in the foregoing paragraphs numbered 2 to 7 inclusive.

BUT EXCLUDING

(a) The 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 the First Schedule to the Apprenticeship Act (Furniture Trade) Special Order, 1934.

(b) All or any of the above-mentioned operations or processes when applied to the work of vehicle painting.

GIVEN under my Official Seal this 15th day of May, 1956.

(Signed.) WILLIAM NORTON,

Minister for Industry and Commerce

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

The general purpose of this Order is to confirm new rules drawn up by the Apprenticeship Committee for the House Painting and Decorating Trade covering the following matters :—

Period of Apprenticeship,

Minimum Rates of Wages and Overtime,

Maximum Hours of Work,

Numerical Relation of Apprentices to Journeymen,

Education Qualifications of Apprentices,

Training of Apprentices,

Payment of Premiums,

Age of Entry on Apprenticeship,

Definition of the Trade.

S.I. No. 127 of 1956.

APPRENTICESHIP COMMITTEE FOR THE HOUSE PAINTING AND DECORATING TRADE (CONFIRMATION OF RULES) ORDER, 1956.

I, WILLIAM NORTON, Minister for Industry and Commerce, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by subsection (1) of

section 9

of the

Apprenticeship Act, 1931

(No. 56 of 1931), hereby order as follows