S.I. No. 200/1947 - Conditions of Employment (Records) Regulations, 1947.

STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS. 1947. No. 200.

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT (RECORDS) REGULATIONS, 1947.

WHEREAS it is enacted by subsection (1) of section 64 of the Conditions of Employment Act, 1936 (No. 2 of 1936), that the Minister for Industry and Commerce may by order make regulations prescribing records, to be kept by employers or any class of employers, of any matter or thing a record of which is in the opinion of the Minister required for the enforcement of the said Act and may by order, if he so thinks fit, prescribe the form of any such records :

AND WHEREAS it is enacted by subsection (3) of the said section that the said Minister may, if he so thinks fit, by any regulations made under the said section prescribe the place or places where the records prescribed by such regulations shall be kept and may make such regulations as to the production and inspection of such records as he may think fit ;

NOW, the Minister for Industry and Commerce in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 64 of the Conditions of Employment Act, 1936 (No. 2 of 1936), and of every and any other power him in this behalf enabling, hereby makes the following regulations, that is to say:—

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Conditions of Employment (Records) Regulations, 1947.

2. The Interpretation Act, 1937 (No. 38 of 1937), applies to these Regulations.

3. Every employer who employs women or young persons to do industrial work in an industrial undertaking on work which is neither continuous process shift work nor licensed shift work shall keep records of the following matters or things in respect of each such worker, that is to say :—

(a) the Christian name and the surname of the worker,

(b) the sex of the worker,

(c) whether the worker is an adult worker or a young person,

(d) form of industrial work done by the worker,

(e) the number of hours worked by the worker on each ordinary working day, each short day, each Sunday, and each public holiday, differentiating between ordinary working time and overtime,

(f) the number of hours worked by the worker in each week, differentiating between ordinary working time and overtime,

(g) the weekly earnings (exclusive of pay for overtime) of the worker,

(h) the weekly pay for overtime of the worker,

(i) the times at which the worker commences and finishes each spell of work on each day.

4. Every record under these Regulations shall be kept—

(a) at the place where the industrial undertaking to which it relates is carried on, or

(b) in case the office work in connection with such undertaking is performed in a building in the vicinity of the place where such undertaking is carried on, in such building, or

(c) at such other place as is approved of by the Minister.

5. An inspector may require an employer to produce the records kept by such employer under these Regulations in respect of any period within the two years previous to such requisition and may thereupon inspect the said records

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Industry and Commerce, this 4th day of June, 1947.

JOHN LEYDON,

Secretary,

Department of Industry and Commerce.

A person authorised under Sec 15. (1) of the Ministers and Secretaries Act, 1924 , to authenticate the seal of the said Minister.