S.I. No. 92/1979 - Conditions of Employment (Rolling of Dental Root Canal Points) (Exclusion) Regulations, 1979.


S.I. No. 92 of 1979.

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT (ROLLING OF DENTAL ROOT CANAL POINTS) (EXCLUSION) REGULATIONS, 1979.

I, GENE FITZGERALD, Minister for Labour, 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 the Labour (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order, 1966 ( S.I. No. 164 of 1966 ), and after consultation with representatives of employers interested in the form of industrial work specified in these Regulations and with representatives of workers so interested, hereby make the following regulations:

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Conditions of Employment (Rolling of Dental Root Canal Points) (Exclusion) Regulations, 1979.

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

3. The following form of industrial work, namely, the attendance and supervision of automatic machines for rolling of dental root canal points as carried on at the premises of Dental Mirror Company Limited, Cairnsfoot House, Sligo, in the county of Sligo, is hereby declared to be excluded industrial work for the purposes 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 hours of 12 midnight and 8.00 a.m. the following morning;

( b ) no woman shall be employed to do such work unless at least eleven hours have expired since she ceased to do industrial work on the previous day.

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 23rd day of March, 1979.

GENE FITZGERALD,

Minister for Labour.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

The Conditions of Employment Act, 1936 , prohibits the employment of adult females on industrial work between the hours of 10.00 p.m. on any day and 8.00 a.m. the following morning. The effect of these Regulations is to permit the employment of adult females between the hours of 8.00 a.m. and 12 midnight on the rolling of dental root canal points as carried on at the premises of the Dental Mirror Company Limited, Cairnsfoot House, Sligo.