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S.I. No. 72/1960 - Conditions of Employment (Glass Cutting, Waterford Glass Limited) (Young Persons Deemed To Be Adult Workers) Regulations, 1960.

S.I. No. 72 of 1960.

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT (GLASS CUTTING, WATERFORD GLASS LIMITED) (YOUNG PERSONS DEEMED TO BE ADULT WORKERS) REGULATIONS, 1960.

I, JOHN LYNCH, Minister for Industry and Commerce, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 40 of the Conditions of Employment Act, 1936 (No. 2 of 1936), being satisfied that young persons employed to do the form of industrial work specified in the Schedule to these Regulations are so employed as assistants to adult workers and that the work of such adult workers could not proceed in a satisfactory manner if such young persons did not work for the same hours as such adult workers, and after consultation with representatives of employers interested in such form of industrial work and with representatives of workers so interested, hereby make the following regulations:

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Conditions of Employment (Glass Cutting, Waterford Glass, Limited) (Young Persons Deemed to be Adult Workers) Regulations, 1960.

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

3. Young persons employed to do, as assistants to adult workers, the form of industrial work specified in the Schedule to these Regulations shall, while doing the said form of industrial work, be deemed to be adult workers for the purposes of the Conditions of Employment Act, 1936 (No. 2 of 1936).

SCHEDULE

The cutting of glass in the undertaking of Waterford Glass, Limited.

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 4th day of April, 1960.

JOHN LYNCH,

Minister for Industry and Commerce.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

The Conditions of Employment Act, 1936 , provides that young persons may be employed in industrial work between the hours of 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. only. The purpose of these regulations is to extend until 10 p.m. the period within which young persons may be employed as assistants to glass cutters in the undertaking of Waterford Glass Ltd.