S.I. No. 154/1979 - Conditions of Employment (Manufacture of Ladies Nylon Hosiery Industry) (Exclusion) Regulations, 1979.

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Conditions of Employment (Manufacture of Ladies Nylon Hosiery Industry) (Exclusion) Regulations, 1979.

2. The

Interpretation Act, 1937

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

3. The following form of industrial work, namely, the manufacture of ladies nylon hosiery as carried on by young persons 15 years of age and over at the premises of Pretty Polly (Killarney) Limited, Park Road, Killarney, in the county of Kerry, is hereby declared to be excluded industrial work for the purposes of

section 47

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 young person shall be employed to do any such work at any time between the hours of 10 p.m. on any day and the hour of 8 a.m. the following morning;

(

b

) no young person shall be employed on any day until the expiration of twelve hours from the time at which he ceased to do industrial work on the previous day.

Given under my Official Seal, this 27th day of April, 1979.

GENE FITZGERALD,

Minister for Labour.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

The

Conditions of Employment Act, 1936

prohibits the employment of young persons on industrial work between the hours of 8 p.m. on any day and 8 a.m. the following morning. The purpose of these Regulations is to permit the employment of young persons on shift work between the hours of 8 a.m. and 10 p.m. on the manufacture of ladies nylon hosiery as carried on at the premises of Pretty Polly (Killarney) Limited, Park Road, Killarney, Co. Kerry.

S.I. No. 154 of 1979.

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT (MANUFACTURE OF LADIES NYLON HOSIERY INDUSTRY) (EXCLUSION) REGULATIONS, 1979.

I, GENE FITZGERALD, 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