1. HomeBaile
  2. Statutory InstrumentsIonstraimí Reachtúla
  3. 1962
  4. S.I. No. 196/1962 - Conditions of Employment (Accelerated Freeze Drying and Air-Drying Industry) (Exclusion) Regulations, 1962.

S.I. No. 196/1962 - Conditions of Employment (Accelerated Freeze Drying and Air-Drying Industry) (Exclusion) Regulations, 1962.

S.I. No. 196 of 1962.

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT (ACCELERATED FREEZE DRYING AND AIR-DRYING INDUSTRY) (EXCLUSION) REGULATIONS, 1962.

I, JOHN LYNCH, Minister for Industry and Commerce, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by sections 29 and 52 of the Conditions of Employment Act, 1936 (No. 2 of 1936), and after consultation with representatives of employers interested in the forms of industrial work specified in the Schedule hereto and with representatives of workers so interested, hereby make the following regulations :

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Conditions of Employment (Accelerated Freeze Drying and Air-drying Industry) (Exclusion) Regulations, 1962.

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

3. The forms of industrial work specified in the Schedule to these Regulations are hereby declared to be excluded industrial work for the purpose of section 46 of the Conditions of Employment Act, 1936 (No. 2 of 1936).

4. The following provisions shall have effect in respect of the work to which these Regulations relate—

(a) no woman shall be employed to do any such work at any time between the hour of 11 p.m. on any day and the hour of 7 a.m. on the following day;

(b) no woman shall be so employed on any day until after the expiration of eleven hours from the time at which she ceased to do industrial work on the previous day.

5. The Conditions of Employment (Accelerated Freeze Drying Industry) (Exclusion) Regulations, 1962 ( S.I. No. 129 of 1962 ), are hereby revoked.

SCHEDULE.

The processing of food by accelerated freeze drying and air drying methods and the packaging of accelerated freeze dried and air-dried food products.

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 19th day of November, 1962.

(Signed) JOHN LYNCH,

Minister for Industry and Commerce.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

The Conditions of Employment Act, 1936 provides that women may be employed in industrial work between the hours of 8 a.m. and 10 p.m. only.

The purpose of these regulations is to permit the employment of women between the hours of 7 a.m. and 11 p.m. in the Accelerated Freeze Drying and Air-drying Industry.