S.I. No. 266/1951 - Conditions of Employment (Gas Installation, Dublin) (Young Persons Deemed To Be Adult Workers) Regulations, 1951.

S.I. No. 266 of 1951.

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT (GAS INSTALLATION, DUBLIN) (YOUNG PERSONS DEEMED TO BE ADULT WORKERS) REGULATIONS, 1951.

I, SEÁN F. LEMASS, Minister for Industry and Commerce, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 40 of the Conditions of Employment Act, 1936 (No. 2 of 1936), and of every and any other power me in this behalf enabling, being satisfied that young persons employed to do the form of industrial work specified in these regulations are so employed as assistants to adult workers and that the work of such adult workers could not proceed in a satisfactory manner if such young persons did not work for the same hours as such adult workers, and after consultation with representatives of employers interested in such form of industrial work and with representatives of workers so interested, hereby make the following regulations :—

1. These regulations may be cited as the Conditions of Employment (Gas Installation, Dublin) (Young Persons Deemed to be Adult Workers) Regulations, 1951.

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

3. Young persons who have attained the age of sixteen years and are employed by the Alliance and Dublin Consumers' Gas Company as assistants to adult gas installation fitters shall, while doing the said form of industrial work, be deemed to be adult workers for the purposes of the Conditions of Employment Act, 1936 .

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 24th day of September, 1951.

(Signed) SEÁN F. LEMASS,

Minister for Industry and Commerce.