S.I. No. 221/1968 - Conditions of Employment (Automobile Rear-View Mirrors Industry) (Exclusion) Regulations, 1968


S.I. No. 221 of 1968.

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT (AUTOMOBILE REAR-VIEW MIRRORS INDUSTRY) (EXCLUSION) REGULATIONS, 1968

I, P. S. Ó h-IRIGHILE, Minister for Labour, 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 the Labour (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order, 1966 ( S.I. No. 164 of 1966 ), and after consultation with representatives of employers interested in the form of industrial hereinafter work specified and with representatives of workers so interested, hereby make the following regulations:—

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Conditions of Employment (Automobile Rear View Mirrors Industry) (Exclusion) Regulations, 1968.

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

3. The following forms of industrial work, namely, the inspection and packaging of automobile prismatic mirrors as operated at the premises of Donnelly Mirrors Ltd., Naas, Co. Kildare, are 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 woman shall be employed to do any such work at any time between the hour of 11 p.m. on any day and the hour of 7 a.m. on the following day;

(b) no woman 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 24th day of October, 1968.

P. S. Ó h-IRIGHILE,

Minister for Labour.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

The Conditions of Employment Act, 1936 , provides that female adult workers shall not be engaged in shift work between the hour of 10 p.m. and 8 a.m. on the following day. The purpose of these Regulations is to permit female adult workers to engage in shift work between 7 a.m. and 11 p.m. in the inspection and packaging of automobile prismatic rear-view mirrors as operated at the premises of Donnelly Mirrors Ltd., Naas, Co. Kildare.