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S.I. No. 85/1972 - Agricultural Wages (Minimum Rates) Order, 1972.
Table of Provisions (8)
Statutory Text (8 Articles)
1. Board and lodging : per day .. .. ..
0·80
0·72
0·66
0·57
0—50
Board : per day .. .. .. .. ..
0·70
0·62
0·56
0·47
0—£40
Breakfast : per day .. .. .. ..
0·15
0·13
0·12
0·10
0—05
Dinner : per day .. .. .. .. ..
0·35
0·31
0·27
0·23
0—£20
Afternoon tea : per day .. .. .. ..
0·05
0·05
0·05
0·04
0—£04
Supper : per day .. .. .. .. ..
0·15
0·13
0·12
0·10
0—£08
Lodging : per day .. .. .. ..
0·10
0·10
0·10
0·10
0—10
2. House or Cottage : without garden, or with a garden not exceeding one statute rood, per week
0·15
0·15
0·15
0·15
0·15
3. Land for potatoes or roots, per statute rood : per week .. .. .. .. .. ..
0·05
0·05
0·05
0·05
0·05
Land for potatoes or roots, when cultivated, tilled, manured, seeded and crop lifted by employer per statute rood : per week .. .. .. ..
0·30
0·30
0·30
0·30
0·30
Land for potatoes or roots, when cultivated, tilled and manured and crop lifted by employer, per statute rood : per week .. .. .. ..
0·25
0·25
0·25
0·25
0·25
4. Fresh Milk : per gallon .. .. .. ..
0·10
0·10
0·10
0·10
0·10
5. Grass of Cow
1st May to 30th November : per week .. ..
0·15
0·15
0·15
0·15
0·15
1st December to 30th April : per week ..
0·10
0·10
0·10
0·10
0·10
SEALED with the Common Seal of the Agricultural Wages Board this 24th day of March, 1972.
The Seal of the Board was affixed in the presence of
SEÁN LEE,
Chairman of the Board.
EXPLANATORY NOTE.
The effect of this Order is—— —
(1) to increase with effect from 1st May, 1972, the prescribed minimum rates of wages payable to male and female agricultural workers.
(2) to increase the allowance for board (Seventh Schedule).
6. Male agricultural workers under 16 years and not under 15 years .. ..
41·05
42·05
Winter
Remainder of year
9·60
0·29
0·26
Winter
Remainder of year
0·36
0·32
Winter
Remainder of year
7. Male agricultural workers under 15 years and not under 14 years .. ..
29·75
30·75
Winter
Remainder of year
7·00
0·21
0·19
Winter
Remainder of year
0·27
0·23
Winter
Remainder of year
FIFTH SCHEDULE.
MINIMUM RATES OF WAGES FOR SPECIFIED CLASSES OF AGRICULTURAL WORKERS.
Classes of Agricultural Workers
Rate per week in which 44 hours work is done during the winter period and rate per week in which 48 hours work is done during the remainder of the year (exclusive of work on Sunday or weekly half-holiday)
Rate per hour for work done in any week in which, less than 44 hours work is done during the winter period and rate per hour in which less than 48 hours work is done during the remainder of the year (exclusive of work on Sunday or weekly half-holiday)
Overtime rate per hour payable for any time worked in any week in excess of 44 hours during the winter period and in excess of 48 hours during the remainder of the year (exclusive of work on Sunday or weekly half-holiday)
Rate per hour for work done on Sunday
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
(5)
£
The Agricultural Wages Board, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by
Section 17
of the
Agricultural Wages Act, 1936
(No. 53 of 1936) and of every and any other power them in this behalf enabling, hereby order as follows:—