S.I. No. 60/1956 - Workmen's Compensation Act, 1934 (Industrial Disease) Order, 1956.

2. The

Interpretation Act, 1937

(No. 38 of 1937), applies to this Order.

3. The provisions of

section 76

of the

Workmen's Compensation Act, 1934

(No. 9 of 1934), are hereby extended to the disease and process specified in the first and second columns of the Schedule to this Order as if that disease were included in the first column of the Sixth Schedule to that Act and that process were set opposite in the second column of the said Sixth Schedule to that disease.

SCHEDULE.

Description of Disease

Description of Process

(1)

(2)

Pneumoconiosis due to the inhalation, in coal mining or in any operation connected with coal-mining or with the search for coal, of coal-dust or silica dust.

Coal-mining or any operation connected with coal-mining or with the search for coal.

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 23rd day of March, 1956.

BRENDAN CORISH,

Minister for Social Welfare.

S.I. No. 60 of 1956.

WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION ACT, 1934 (INDUSTRIAL DISEASE) ORDER, 1956.

I, BRENDAN CORISH, Minister for Social Welfare, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by

section 76

of the

Workmen's Compensation Act, 1934

(No. 9 of 1934), and the

Workmen's Compensation Act, 1934

(Transfer of Ministerial Functions) Order, 1947 (

S. R. & O. No. 161 of 1947

), hereby order as follows

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the

Workmen's Compensation Act, 1934

(Industrial Disease) Order, 1956.

(2) This Order shall come into operation on the 2nd day of April, 1956.