S.I. No. 228/1937 - Agricultural Wages (Minimum Rates) Order, 1937.

STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS. 1937. No. 228.

AGRICULTURAL WAGES (MINIMUM RATES) ORDER, 1937.

WHEREAS it is enacted by subsection (1) of Section 17 of the Agricultural Wages Act, 1936 (No. 53 of 1936), that subject to the provisions of that section the Agricultural Wages Board shall, as soon as may be after the commencement of that Act and thereafter from time to time as they think proper, by order fix, in respect of each wages district, the minimum rates of wages for agricultural workers for time work:

AND WHEREAS, in pursuance of the powers vested in him by subsection (1) of Section 3 and subsection (1) of Section 4 of the said Act, the Minister for Agriculture made an Order dated the 7th day of April, 1937, and entitled the Agricultural Wages Districts and Areas Order, 1937 (Statutory Rules and Orders, No. 75 of 1937), whereby Saorstát Éireann was divided into agricultural wages districts and the said districts were grouped into agricultural wages areas for the purposes of the said Act:

AND WHEREAS by virtue of the Agricultural Wages Act, 1936 (Commencement) Order, 1937 (Statutory Rules and Orders, No. 82 of 1937), the said Act came into operation on the 22nd day of April, 1937:

AND WHEREAS, in pursuance of the provisions contained in subsection (6) of the said Section 17, the Agricultural Wages Board served notice of their intention to make this Order on the committees for each of the several agricultural wages areas which include the wages districts to which this Order is intended to relate, and two months have elapsed since the date of such service:

NOW, the Agricultural Wages Board, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by Section 17 of the Agricultural Wages Act, 1936 (No. 53 of 1936), and of every and any other power them in this behalf enabling, do hereby order as follows:—

1. This Order may be cited as the Agricultural Wages (Minimum Rates) Order, 1937.

2. The Interpretation Act, 1923 (No. 46 of 1923), applies to the interpretation of this Order in like manner as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of the Oireachtas.

3. The minimum rates of wages in respect of all the wages districts in Saorstát Éireann for the classes of agricultural workers mentioned in the first column of the First Schedule hereto are hereby fixed at the rates specified in the second, third, fourth, and fifth columns of the said First Schedule opposite the mention of each of the said classes of agricultural workers in the said first column, in respect of the number of working hours mentioned at the top of the said second, third, fourth and fifth columns, respectively.

4. Where any agricultural employer provides any agricultural worker in his employment with all or any of the benefits or advantages specified in the first column of the Second Schedule hereto, such benefits or advantages shall, for the purpose of computing the wages paid to such agricultural worker, be reckoned as payment of wages in lieu of payment in cash, and the value at which such benefits or advantages are to be so reckoned shall be the value set out in the second and third columns respectively of the said Second Schedule opposite the mention of such benefits or advantages in the said first column.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

MINIMUM RATES OF WAGES FOR SPECIFIED CLASSES OF AGRICULTURAL WORKERS.

(1)	(2)			(3)			(4)			(5)
Classes for Agricultural Workers	Rate for six day week (exclusive of Sunday) of 54 working hours			Rate where less than 54 hours are worked in a week (exclusive of Sunday), per hour			Rate for overtime in excess of 54 working hours in a week (exclusive of Sunday), per hour			Rate for Sunday work per hour
1. Male agricultural workers of 20 years and upwards	£ 1	s. 4	d. 0	£	s.	d. 51/₃	£	s.	d. 6	£	s.	d. 6
2. Male agricultural workers under 20 years and not under 19 years .. .. .. .. ..	1	1	0			42/₃			5½			5½
3. Male agricultural workers under 19 years and not under 18 years .. .. .. .. ..		18	0			4			5			5
4. Male agricultural workers under 18 years and not under 16 years .. .. .. ..		15	0			31/₃			4½			4½

SECOND SCHEDULE.

BENEFITS OR ADVANTAGES WHICH MAY BE RECKONED AS PAYMENT OF WAGES IN LIEU OF PAYMENT IN CASH.

	Value at which they are to be reckoned in respect of
Benefits or advantages	Male agricultural workers of 20 years and over			Male agricultural workers under 20 years and not under 16 years
(1)	(2)			(3)
1. Board or board and lodging: per day .. .. .. Breakfast: per day .. .. Dinner: per day Supper: per day .. ..	£	s. 1	d. 11 6½ 10 6½	£	s. 1	d. 7 5½ 8 5½
2. Cottage: Without a garden, or with a garden not exceeding one statute rood: per week .. .. ..		2	0		2	0
3. Land for potatoes or roots, per statute rood: per week Land for potatoes or roots, when cultivated, tilled, manured, seeded, and crop lifted by employer, per statute rood: per week ..		1	2½ 6		1	2½ 6
4. Fresh milk: 1st May to 31st October: per gallon .. .. .. 1st November to 30th April: per gallon ..		1	8 0	1		8 0
5. Grass of cow: 1st May to 30th November: per week .. .. 1st December to 30^th April: per week .. ..		2 1	0 0		2 1	0 0

Sealed with the Common Seal of the Agricultural Wages Board this 9th day of August, 1937.

The Seal of the Board was affixed in the presence of

WILLIAM O'LEARY,

Chairman of the Board.