S.I. No. 215/1972 - Conditions of Employment (Surgical Castings Inspection) (Exclusion) Regulations, 1972.

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Conditions of Employment (Surgical Castings Inspection) (Exclusion) Regulations, 1972.

2. The

Interpretation Act, 1937

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

3. The following form of industrial work, namely, the inspection of surgical castings, as carried on at the premises of Medeering Ltd., Belgard Roard, Tallaght, in the county of Dublin, 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 12 midnight on any day and the hour of 8 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 31st day of August, 1972.

JOSEPH BRENNAN,

Minister for Labour.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

The

Conditions of Employment Act, 1936

, provides that female adult workers may not work later than 10 p.m. on any day. The purpose of these Regulations is to allow the employment of female adult workers between 8 a.m. and 12 midnight on surgical castings inspection at the premises of Medeering Limited, Cookstown Industrial Estate, Belgard Road, Tallaght, Co. Dublin.

S.I. No. 215 of 1972.

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT (SURGICAL CASTINGS INSPECTION) (EXCLUSION) REGULATIONS, 1972.

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