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Payment in lieu of board and lodgings during leave.
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15.—(1) Where—
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(a) a worker is allowed by his employer annual leave or semi-annual leave, and
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(b) the worker was, immediately before such annual leave or semi-annual leave, entitled as part of his remuneration to accommodation,
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the employer shall, in addition to any sum payable to the worker under this Act in respect of the annual leave or semi-annual leave, pay to the worker, in respect of any day falling within the annual leave or semi-annual leave during which he does not receive accommodation, in case the worker is employed in a county borough or the borough of Dun Laoghaire, the sum of three shillings or, in any other case, the sum of two shillings.
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(2) The Minister may, whenever and so often as he thinks proper, make regulations varying the sum which an employer shall pay to a worker under subsection (1) of this section by substituting for the sum mentioned in that subsection in respect of that worker such other sum as the Minister thinks proper, and whenever any such regulations are in force, the provisions of the said subsection (1) shall have effect, in relation to the worker to whom the regulations apply, as if the sum mentioned therein in respect of that worker was varied as stated in the regulations.
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(3) In this section “accommodation”means—
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(a) in relation to a worker who is entitled to board only, board;
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(b) in relation to a worker who is entitled to lodgings only, lodgings;
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(c) in relation to a worker who is entitled to board and lodgings, board and lodgings.
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