S.I. No. 68/1956 - Apprenticeship Committee (No. 2) For The Furniture Trade (Confirmation of Rules) Order, 1956.

S.I. No. 68 of 1956.

APPRENTICESHIP COMMITTEE (No. 2) FOR THE FURNITURE TRADE (CONFIRMATION OF RULES) ORDER, 1956.

I, WILLIAM NORTON, Minister for Industry and Commerce, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by subsection (1) of Section 9 of the Apprenticeship Act, 1931 , (No. 56 of 1931), hereby order as follows :

1. This Order may be cited as the Apprenticeship Committee (No. 2) for the Furniture Trade (Confirmation of Rules) Order, 1956.

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

3. The Rules set out in the Schedule to this Order are hereby confirmed and shall come into operation on the 22nd day of March, 1956.

SCHEDULE.

Rules made by the Apprenticeship Committee (No. 2) for the Furniture Trade on the 22nd day of February, 1956.

The Rules of the Apprenticeship Committee (No. 2) for the Furniture Trade as set out in Apprenticeship Committee (No. 2) for the Furniture Trade (Confirmation of Rules) Order, 1953 ( S.I. No. 267 of 1953 ), are hereby amended as follows, that is to say, by the deletion of the Rules comprised under the heading " Part III "—" Rules Regulating Minimum Rates of Wages" and by the substitution therefor of the following :

Part III—RULES REGULATING MINIMUM RATES OF WAGES.

The Committee specify hereunder the minimum rates of wages (other than wages for overtime) to be paid to male or female persons employed by way of Apprenticeship in the Trade in the Apprenticeship District.

Rate per week during	Male	Female
1st Year of Apprenticeship	26/11	26/10
2nd Year of Apprenticeship	36/9	36/8
3rd Year of Apprenticeship	52/9	48/11
4th Year of Apprenticeship	73/6	67/3
5th Year of Apprenticeship	88/7	—
6th Year of Apprenticeship	120/10	—

GIVEN under my Official Seal this 22nd day of March, 1956.

(Signed) WILLIAM NORTON,

Minister for Industry and Commerce.