S.I. No. 74/1957 - Apprenticeship Committee For The House-Painting and Decorating Trade (Confirmation of Rules) Order, 1957.

1. This Order may be cited as the Apprenticeship Committee for the House Painting and Decorating Trade (Confirmation of Rules) Order, 1957.

2. The

Interpretation Act, 1937

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

3. The Rules set out in the Schedule to this Order are hereby confirmed and shall come into operation on the 8th day of April, 1957.

SCHEDULE

The Rules of the Apprenticeship Committee for the House Painting and Decorating Trade as set out in Apprenticeship Committee for the House Painting and Decorating Trade (Confirmation of Rules) Order, 1956 (

S.I. No. 127 of 1956

) are hereby amended as follows, that is to say, by the deletion of the Rules comprised under the heading " Part 1 " " Apprenticeship Classification Rules " and by the substitution therefor of the following :—

APPRENTICESHIP CLASSIFICATION RULES.

The Committee declare that employment in the Trade of the classes of persons specified hereunder, in the manner specified, shall constitute employment by way of apprenticeship in the Trade.

Classes of Persons

—Persons employed in the Trade who have not completed the period of apprenticeship in the Trade as specified in the Rules regulating the period of apprenticeship.

Manner of Employment

—Employment in any three or more of the operations numbered 1 to 7 in the Schedule to the Apprenticeship Act (House Painting and Decorating Trade) Special Order, 1935.

Existing Apprentices

—Where, immediately before the 15th day of May, 1956, a person was employed by way of apprenticeship in the Trade, then, for the purposes of these Rules, account shall be taken of the period of such apprenticeship.

GIVEN under my Official Seal this 8th day of April, 1957.

(Signed.) SEÁN F. LEMASS,

Minister for Industry and Commerce.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

The purpose of this Order is to amend Part 1 of the Rules of the Apprenticeship Committee for the House Painting and Decorating Trade (

S.I. No. 127 of 1956

) which came into operation on 15th May, 1956, so as to provide that the rates of pay prescribed in that Order shall apply to persons now serving as apprentices and whose apprenticeship commenced before the 15th May, 1956.

S.I. No. 74 of 1957.

APPRENTICESHIP COMMITTEE FOR THE HOUSE-PAINTING AND DECORATING TRADE (CONFIRMATION OF RULES) ORDER, 1957.

I, SEÁN F. LEMASS, 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 :—