S.I. No. 152/1965 - Conditions of Employment (Polythene Film Bags) (Exclusion) Regulations, 1965.

S.I. No. 152 of 1965.

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT (POLYTHENE FILM BAGS) (EXCLUSION) REGULATIONS, 1965.

I, P. S. Ó hIRIGHILE, Minister for Industry and Commerce, 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 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 (Polythene Film Bags) (Exclusion) Regulations, 1965.

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

3. The following form of industrial work, namely, the manufacture of bags from printed and unprinted rolls of tubular polythene film, is hereby declared to be excluded industrial work for the purpose of section 46 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 women shall be employed to do any such work at any time between the hour of 10 p.m. on any day and the hour of 6 a.m. on the following day ;

(b) no women shall be so employed on any day until after the expiration of eleven hours from the time at which she ceased to do industrial work on the previous day.

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 12th day of July, 1965.

P. Ó hIRIGHILE,

Minister for Industry and Commerce.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

The Conditions of Employment Act, 1936 , provides that women may be employed in industrial work between the hours of 8 a.m. and 10 p.m. only.

The purpose of these regulations is to permit the employment of women between the hours of 6 a.m. and 10 p.m. on shift work in the manufacture of bags from printed and unprinted rolls of tubular polythene film.