S.I. No. 271/1976 - Conditions of Employment (Medical Equipment Manufacturing Industry) (Exclusion) Regulations, 1976.

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Conditions of Employment (Medical Equipment 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 plastic disposable medical equipment as carried on at the premises of Abbott Ireland Limited, Sligo, 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 hours of 12.00 midnight on any day and the hour of 7.00 a.m. on the following day,

(

b

) no woman shall be so employed on any day until 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 November, 1976.

MICHAEL O'LEARY,

Minister for Labour.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

The

Conditions of Employment Act, 1936

provides that female adult workers may not be employed in industrial work between the hours of 10 p.m. on any day and 8 a.m. on the following day. These Regulations permit the employment of female adult workers between 7 a.m. and 12 midnight on the manufacture of plastic disposable medical equipment as carried on at the premises of Abbot Ireland Limited, at Sligo.

S.I. No. 271 of 1976.

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT (MEDICAL EQUIPMENT 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