Housing (Amendment) Act, 1941

Amendment of section 3 of the Labourers Act, 1936.

2.Section 3 of the Labourers Act, 1936 (No. 24 of 1936), is hereby amended by the insertion before sub-section (2) thereof of the following sub-section, that is to say:—

“(1A) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 93 of the Irish Land Act, 1903 , and of paragraph (a) of sub-section (1) of section 1 of the Labourers (Ireland) Act, 1919, a person who is working for hire shall not be prevented from being an agricultural labourer within the meaning of the Principal Acts solely by reason of the fact that he is not working for hire in a rural district.”