S.I. No. 381/1979 - Conditions of Employment (Manufacture of Windscreens Industry) (Exclusion) Regulations, 1979.

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Conditions of Employment (Manufacture of Windscreens 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 windscreens as carried on at the premises of Triplex Limited, Industrial Estate, Waterford, in the county of Waterford, 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 such work at any time between the hours of 11 p.m. on any day and 7 a.m. the following morning;

(

b

) no woman shall be employed to do any such work unless at least eleven hours have elapsed since she ceased to do industrial work on the previous day.

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 30th day of November, 1979.

GENE FITZGERALD,

Minister for Labour.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

The

Conditions of Employment Act, 1936

prohibits the employment of women on industrial work between the hours of 10 p.m. and 8 a.m. the following morning.

These regulations permit the employment of adult females on shift work between the hours of 7 a.m. and 11 p.m. on the manufacture of windscreens as carried on at premises of Triplex Limited, Industrial Estate, Waterford.

S.I. No. 381 of 1979.

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT (MANUFACTURE OF WINDSCREENS INDUSTRY) (EXCLUSION) REGULATIONS, 1979.

I, GENE FITZGERALD, Minister for Labour, in exercise of the powers conferred on my 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:—