S.I. No. 90/1951 - Conditions of Employment (Match Manufacturing Industry) (Exclusion) Regulations, 1951.

S.I. No. 90 of 1951.

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT (MATCH MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY) (EXCLUSION) REGULATIONS, 1951.

The Minister for Industry and Commerce, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 29 , 52 and 57 of the Conditions of Employment Act, 1936 (No. 2 of 1936), and of every and any other power him in this behalf enabling, and having first consulted with representatives of the employers interested in the form of industrial work to which these regulations relate and with representatives of workers so interested, hereby makes the following regulations :—

1. These regulations may be cited as the Conditions of Employment (Match Manufacturing Industry) (Exclusion) Regulations, 1951.

2. In these regulations the expression " the Act " means the Conditions of Employment Act, 1936 (No. 2 of 1936).

3. The form of industrial work specified in the Schedule to these regulations is hereby declared to be excluded industrial work for the purpose of sections 38 and 46 of Part III of the Act.

4. Subject to the provisions of section 41 of the act it shall not be lawful for any employer who employs a worker to work on the said form of industrial work to permit such worker—

(a) to commence work earlier than the hour of 7 a.m. on any day ;

(b) to continue work after any of the following limits, that is to say :—

(i) the hour of 8 p.m. on any ordinary working day,

(ii) the hour of 1 p.m. on any short day,

(iii) the time in any ordinary working day when such worker has completed nine hours work on that day,

(iv) the time in any week when such worker has completed forty-eight hours' work in that week ;

(c) to do the said form of industrial work between the hours of 10 p.m. on any day and 7 a.m. on the following day or to commence work on any day until after the expiration of eleven hours from the time at which such worker ceased to do industrial work on the previous day.

5. These regulations shall come into operation on the 16th day of April, 1951.

SCHEDULE.

Women employed on continuous match-making machines in the match manufacturing industry.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Industry and Commerce, this 11th day of April, 1951.

(Signed) JOHN LEYDON,

Secretary,

Department of Industry and Commerce.

A person authorised under Section 15 (1) of the Ministers and Secretaries Act, 1924 , to authenticate the Seal of the said Minister.