S.I. No. 293/1981 - Conditions of Employment (Regeneration of Nylon) (Exclusion) Regulations, 1981.

I, LIAM KAVANAGH, 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 (Regeneration of Nylon) (Exclusion) Regulations, 1981.

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

3. The following form of industrial work, namely, the regeneration of nylon as carried on at the premises of Xylon Limited, North Quay, Wicklow, in the county of Wicklow, is hereby declared to be excluded industrial work for the purposes of sections 38 and 49 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 worker shall be employed to do any such work for more than 12 hours on a Saturday;

(b) no worker shall be employed to do any such work for more than 12 hours on a Sunday;

(c) no worker shall work for so many hours in any week that the average number of hours to be worked in any four consecutive weeks would exceed thirty-six;

(d) no worker shall be employed to do any such work between the hours of 6 p.m. on a Saturday and 6 a.m. on the following Sunday;

(e) each worker shall be allowed in each 12 hour work period at least:—

(i) one fifteen minute break to be taken during the first four hours of work,

(ii) one half hour break to be taken after the first six hours of work, and

(iii) one fifteen minute break to be taken during the last four hours of work.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

(This note is not part of the Instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation.)

The Conditions of Employment Act, 1936 provides that adult workers may not be employed for more than nine hours on any day and that adult workers may not be employed for more than three hours on a Sunday. These Regulations permit, subject to certain conditions, the employment of adult workers on 12 hour work periods on the regeneration of nylon as carried on at the premises of Xylon Limited, North Quay, Wicklow, Co. Wicklow.