S.I. No. 15/1976 - Conditions of Employment (China Sanitary Ware Manufacturing Industry) (Exclusion) Regulations, 1976.

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Conditions of Employment (China Sanitary Ware Manufacturing Industry) (Exclusion) Regulations, 1976.

2. The

Interpretation Act, 1937

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

3. The following form of industrial work, namely, the manufacture of vitreous china sanitary ware as carried on at the premises of Armitage Shanks Ireland Limited, at South Quay, Arklow, in the county of Wicklow, is hereby declared to be excluded industrial work for the purpose of

section 33

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 shift shall be longer than twelve hours in duration;

(

b

) no worker shall work on two consecutive shifts;

(

c

) no worker shall work on any shift unless at least eight hours have elapsed since he worked on a previous shift;

(

d

) no worker shall work for more than fifty six hours in any week.

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 23rd day of January, 1976.

MICHAEL O'LEARY,

Minister for Labour.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

The

Conditions of Employment Act, 1936

, prohibits the working of shifts of longer than nine hours duration on industrial work. The purpose of these Regulations is to allow Armitage Shanks Ireland Limited to emply male adult workers on 12 hour shifts between 7.30 a.m. and 7.30 a.m. the following day at their premises at South Quay, Arklow, Co. Wicklow.

S.I. No. 15 of 1976.

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT (CHINA SANITARY WARE MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY) (EXCLUSION)REGULATIONS, 1976.

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