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S.I. No. 75/1971 - Conditions of Employment (Textile Industry) (Exclusion) Regulations, 1971
Statutory Text (5 Articles)
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Conditions of Employment (Textile Industry) (Exclusion) Regulations, 1971.
2. The
Interpretation Act, 1937
(No. 38 of 1937), applies to these Regulations.
3. The following form of industrial work, namely, the winding, pirning, magazine filling, unravelling and pirn stripping in relation to the textile industry as operated at the premises of Nenagh Textile Mills Limited, Nenagh, in the county of Tipperary is 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 10.30 p.m. on any day and the hour of 6 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 24th day of February, 1971.
JOSEPH BRENNAN,
Minister for Labour.
EXPLANATORY NOTE.
The
Conditions of Employment Act, 1936
, provides that no adult female worker may commence shift work before 8 a.m. nor continue after 10 p.m. The purpose of these Regulations is to permit female adult workers to be employed between the hours of 6 a.m. and 10.30 p.m. in the textile industry at the premises of Nenagh Textile Mills Limited, Nenagh, Co. Tipperary.
S.I. No. 75 of 1971.
CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT (TEXTILE INDUSTRY) (EXCLUSION) REGULATIONS, 1971
I, JOSEPH BRENNAN, 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 specified in these Regulations and with representatives of workers so interested hereby make the following regulations