S.I. No. 80/1945 - Unemployment Insurance (Subsidiary Employments) Special Order, 1944.


STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS. 1945. No. 80.

UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (SUBSIDIARY EMPLOYMENTS) SPECIAL ORDER, 1944.

THE UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (SUBSIDIARY EMPLOYMENTS) SPECIAL ORDER, 1944, MADE BY THE MINISTER FOR INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE UNDER PARAGRAPH (j) OF PART II OF THE FIRST SCHEDULE TO THE UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE ACT, 1920.

By virtue of the powers conferred on him by paragraph (j) of Part II of the First Schedule to the Unemployment Insurance Act, 1920, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, the Minister for Industry and Commerce, hereby makes the following Special Order :—

1. This Order may be cited as the Unemployment Insurance (Subsidiary Employments) Special Order, 1944.

2. The Interpretation Act, 1937 (No. 38 of 1937), applies to this Order.

3. The employments of the several classes set forth in the First Schedule hereto are specified as being of such a nature that they are ordinarily adopted as subsidiary employments only and not as the principal means of livelihood.

4. The Order specified in the Second Schedule hereto is hereby revoked.

FIRST SCHEDULE

(I)

EMPLOYMENT IN THE SERVICE OF THE STATE.

1. Employment, involving occasional attendance only, under the Department of Justice, as interpreter at sittings of a Court of Justice.

2. Employment, involving part-time or occasional service only, under the Department of Justice, as :—

(a) Probation Officer under the Probation of Offenders Act, 1907 ;

(b) Female attendant on persons in the custody of the Gárda Síochána.

3. Employment as sub-postmaster remunerated by scale payment.

4. Employment as collector or deliverer of postal packets under the designation of Allowance Deliverer.

5. Employment as messenger conveying Post Office mails on station or pier service.

6. Employment, by the Department of Posts and Telegraphs, as telephone attendant whose duty is confined to any one or more of the following periods night time, Sundays and public holidays.

7. Employment, involving part-time service only, under the Revenue Commissioners, as Collector of Taxes under the Acts relating to Income Tax.

8. Employment, involving occasional service only, under the Revenue Commissioners, as woman searcher.

9. Employment, involving part-time service only, under the Department of Agriculture or the Department of Lands (Gaeltacht Services) as caretaker of curing stations, stores or boats.

10. Employment, involving part-time service only, under the Department of Agriculture as collector of fishery statistics.

11. Employment, involving occasional service only, under the Department of Lands (Gaeltacht Services) in the handling of kelp or kelp-weed.

12. Employment, involving part-time service only, under the Department of Education, as artist's model in the National College of Art.

13. Employment, under the Department of Education, as attendant or doorkeeper at or in connection with the Intermediate or Leaving Certificate examinations.

14 Employment as attendant at or in connection with examinations held by the Civil Service Commissioners or by the Local Appointments Commission.

15. Employment, under the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland, as chain or staff man, gauge reader, or attendant on hydrometric survey work.

16 Employment, involving part-time or occasional service only, under the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland as caretaker of property surplus to State requirements, or as collector of rents of lettings therein.

17 Employment, involving occasional attendance only, under the Department of Local Government and Public Health, as attendant on a District Medical Referee.

(II)

EMPLOYMENT UNDER LOCAL OR OTHER PUBLIC AUTHORITIES.

18. Employment, involving occasional service only, as mace bearer.

19. Employment, involving part-time service only, as member of a fire brigade.

20. Employment, involving part-time service only, as caretaker of waterworks under the control of a local authority.

21. Employment, involving only service outside the ordinary hours of work, by a local authority as librarian.

(III)

EMPLOYMENT UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE OR ANY LIGHTHOUSE AUTHORITY.

22. Employment, involving part-time service only :—

(a) as civilian in charge of a rocket or cliff-ladder life saving apparatus and equipment connected therewith, being the property of the Department of Industry and Commerce ;

(b) in or with a Volunteer Company enrolled for the purpose of working a rocket or cliff-ladder life saving apparatus ; or

(c) in keeping a look-out in connection with the Coast Life Saving Service for wrecks or signals of distress at sea.

23. Employment, involving part-time service only, by a local or general lighthouse authority, or dock, harbour, or conservancy authority or board, in connection with the care or upkeep of minor lights, buoys, beacons, signals and tide-gauges.

MISCELLANEOUS EMPLOYMENTS, WHETHER IN THE SERVICE OF THE STATE, UNDER LOCAL OR OTHER PUBLIC AUTHORITIES, OR OTHERWISE.

24. Employment in the delivery of milk or newspapers, where the employment is not continued later than 10 a.m.

25. Employment, involving part-time service only, in or about a cathedral, church or other place of religious worship in any of the following capacities :—

Bell-ringer ;

Member of the choir ;

Organ blower ;

Organist or other musician ;

Sacristan or verger ;

Sexton.

26. Employment, involving, part-time service only, in any of the following capacities :—

Bible-woman ;

Lay-preacher or Scripture reader.

27. Employment, involving part-time service only, as member of the crew of a lifeboat.

28. Employment, involving only occasional service or service outside the ordinary hours of work, in the performance of clerical duties.

29. Employment as secretary or clerk of a society, club, committee, philanthropic institution, school or other similar body or institution, where personal service is ordinarily required only occasionally or outside the ordinary hours of work.

30. Employment, involving part-time service only, as caretaker of a burial ground.

31. Employment as caretaker, where no wages are paid or where no other money payments are made.

32. Employment, involving part-time service only, by a local or other public authority, or by any company or body responsible for the lighting of any borough or other local area, as lamp lighter or extinguisher, whether the employment does or does not include the duty of cleaning or keeping in order the lamps.

33. Employment, involving part-time service only, as :—

(a) Member of a town band ;

(b) Political agent ;

(c) Water keeper ;

(d) Caretaker of sand pits, gravel pits or plantations on an estate ;

(e) Caretaker of ancient or national monuments.

34. Employment, involving part-time service only, as caretaker or constable of a harbour, pier, fishery pier, slip, or lights or beacons.

35. Employment, involving part-time service only, in reading to a blind person.

36. Employment as estate bailiff, rent warner, game watcher, shore watcher, wood ranger or bog ranger.

37. Employment, involving part-time service only, as attendant at a child welfare centre.

38. Employment, involving part-time service only, by Cumann an Árachais Náisiúnta ar Shlainte as sick visitor.

39. Employment under The Irish Sea Fisheries Association, Ltd., as local agent.

SECOND SCHEDULE

The Unemployment Insurance (Subsidiary Employments) Order, 1920, (S. R. & O. 1920 No. 2092).

GIVEN under my Official Seal this 13th day of March, 1944.

(Signed) SEÁN F. LEMASS,

Minister for Industry and Commerce.