S.I. No. 321/1976 - Conditions of Employment (Nylon Yarn Spinning Industry) (Exclusion) Regulations, 1976.

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Conditions of Employment (Nylon Yarn Spinning 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 spinning of nylon yarn as carried on at the premises of Eire Synthetics at Ballymoon, Kilcar, in the county of Donegal, 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 8.00 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 16th day of December, 1976.

MICHAEL O'LEARY,

Minister for Labour.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

The

Conditions of Employment Act, 1936

, provides that female adult workers may not be employed on industrial work between the hours of 10 p.m. on any day and 8 a.m. on the following day. The purpose of these Regulations is to permit the employment of female adult workers between 8 a.m. and 12 midnight on the work of nylon yarn spinning as carried on at the premises of Eire Synthetics, Ballymoon, Kilcar, Co. Donegal.

S.I. No. 321 of 1976.

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT (NYLON YARN SPINNING 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