S.I. No. 31/1952 - Conditions of Employment (Glass Manufacture) (Employment of Young Persons At Night) Regulations, 1952.


S.I. No. 31 of 1952.

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT (GLASS MANUFACTURE) (EMPLOYMENT OF YOUNG PERSONS AT NIGHT) REGULATIONS, 1952.

I, SEÁN F. LEMASS, Minister for Industry and Commerce, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by subsection (2) of section 47 of the Conditions of Employment Act, 1936 (No. 2 of 1936), and of every and any other power me in this behalf enabling, hereby make the following regulations:—

1. These regulations may be cited as the Conditions of Employment (Glass Manufacture) (Employment of Young Persons at Night) Regulations, 1952.

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

3. Male young persons whose age is over sixteen years may be employed to carry on the forms of industrial work specified in the schedule hereto subject to the following conditions :—

(a) they shall be employed under a system providing for at least three shifts ;

(b) the hours of work of each young person shall not exceed an average of forty-two per week, the average being calculated over a period not exceeding four weeks ;

(c) the length of a spell of work shall not exceed eight hours ;

(d) the interval between two spells of work by the same shift shall not be less than sixteen hours : provided that this interval may be reduced, where necessary, on the occasion of the periodical change-over of shifts ;

(e) no such young person shall be employed to do any work for the undertaking for a longer period in any day than that permitted by the preceding paragraphs.

SCHEDULE.

(a) Mould Holding—involving the holding of split moulds by junior glasshouse attendants in the process of ball blowing by adult male workers ;

(b) Knocking-off—removing surplus glass from moulded articles and unused glass from blow-pipes ;

(c) Taking in—transferring moulded articles while still hot by means of asbestos shrouded forks to the Lehr or annealing stove, and

(d) Taking out—removing annealed articles from the annealing stove.

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 6th day of February, 1952.

(Signed) SEÁN F. LEMASS,

Ministry for Industry and Commerce.