S.I. No. 23/1968 - Conditions of Employment (Chewing Gum and Confectionary Industry) (Exclusion) Regulations, 1968.

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Conditions of Employment (Chewing Gum and Confectionery Industry) (Exclusion) Regulations, 1968.

2. The

Interpretation Act, 1937

(No. 38 of 1937), applies to these Regulations.

3. The following forms of industrial work, namely, the manufacture and packing of chewing gum and confectionery as operated at the premises of Leaf Limited, at Kilcock in the county of Kildare. are hereby declared to be excluded industrial work for the purpose of

section 46

of the

Conditions of Employment Act, 1936

(No. 2 of 1936).

4. The following provisions shall have effect in respect of the work to which these Regulations relate:—

(

a

) no woman shall be employed to do any such work at any time between the hour of 11.55 p.m. on any day and the hour of 7 a.m. on the following day;

(

b

) no woman shall be so employed on any day until after the expiration of eleven hours from the time at which she ceased to do industrial work on the previous day.

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 25th day of January, 1968.

P. S. Ó hIRIGHILE,

Minister for Labour.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

The

Conditions of Employment Act, 1936

provides that women may be employed in industrial work between the hours of 8 a.m. and 10 p.m. only.

The purpose of these Regulations is to permit the employment of women between the hours of 7 a.m. and 11.55 p.m. on shift work in the manufacture and packing of chewing gum and confectionery, at the premises of Leaf Ltd., Kilcock, Co. Kildare.

S.I. No. 23 of 1968.

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT (CHEWING GUM AND CONFECTIONARY INDUSTRY) (EXCLUSION) REGULATIONS, 1968.

I, P. S. Ó hIRIGHILE, Minister for Labour, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by

sections 29

and

52

of the

Conditions of Employment Act, 1936

(No. 2 of 1936), and the Labour (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order, 1966 (

S.I. No. 164 of 1966

), and after consultation with representatives of employers interested in the forms of industrial work hereinafter specified and with representatives of workers so interested, hereby make the following regulations:—