S.I. No. 245/1973 - Conditions of Employment (Tobacco Packaging Industry) (Exclusion) Regulations, 1973.

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Conditions of Employment (Tobacco Packaging Industry) (Exclusion) Regulations, 1973.

2. The

Interpretation Act, 1937

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

3. The following form of industrial work, namely, the packing of cigarette tobacco as carried on at the premises of the Mullingar Tobacco Company Limited, in the county of Westmeath, 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 11 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 17th day of August, 1973.

MICHAEL O'LEARY,

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 or earlier than 8 a.m. on the following day. The purpose of these Regulations is to allow the employment of female adult workers between 6 a.m and 11 p.m. on the packing of cigarette tobacco at the premises of Mullingar Tobacco Co. Ltd., Mullingar, Co. Westmeath.

S.I. No. 245 of 1973.

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT (TOBACCO PACKAGING INDUSTRY) (EXCLUSION) REGULATIONS, 1973.

I, MICHAEL O'LEARY, 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