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S.I. No. 258/1968 - Conditions of Employment (Woollen Fabrics Industry) (Exclusion), Regulations, 1968.
Statutory Text (5 Articles)
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Conditions of Employment (Woollen Fabrics 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 spinning and winding of woollen yarn and weaving and mending of woollen fabrics are hereby declared to be excluded industrial work for the purpose of
section 47
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 young person shall be employed to do any such work at any time between the hour of 10 p.m. on any day and 7.0 a.m. on the following day;
(
b
) no young person shall be employed on any day until after the expiration of eleven hours from the time at which he ceased to do such work on the previous day.
GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 9th day of December, 1968.
(Sgd.) P. S. Ó hIRIGHILE,
Minister for Labour.
EXPLANATORY NOTE.
The
Conditions of Employment Act, 1936
, provides that young persons may not be employed between the hours of 8 p.m. and 8 a.m. The purpose of these Regulations is to permit young persons to be employed on shift work between the hours of 7 a.m. and 10 p.m. in the spinning and winding of woollen yarn and weaving and mending of woollen fabrics.
S.I. No. 258 of 1968.
CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT (WOOLLEN FABRICS 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 form of industrial work hereinafter specified, and with representatives of workers so interested, hereby make the following regulations:—