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S.I. No. 23/1977 - Conditions of Employment (Precision Engineering and Toolmaking Industry) (Exclusion) Regulations, 1977.

S.I. No. 23 of 1977.

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT (PRECISION ENGINEERING AND TOOLMAKING INDUSTRY) (EXCLUSION) REGULATIONS, 1977.

I, MICHAEL O'LEARY, 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 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 (Precision Engineering and Toolmaking Industry) (Exclusion) Regulations, 1977.

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

3. The following form of industrial work, namely, precision engineering and toolmaking as carried on at the premises of Anton Anger Engineering Limited at Beechpark, Ennis, in the county of Clare, is hereby declared to be excluded industrial work for the purpose of section 47 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 young person shall be employed to do any such work at any time between the hours of 8.00 p.m. on any day and the hour of 7.00 a.m. on the following day;

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

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 2nd day of February, 1977.

MICHAEL O'LEARY,

Minister for Labour.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

The Conditions of Employment Act, 1936 provides that young persons may not be employed in industrial work between the hours of 8 p.m. on any day and 8 a.m. on the following day. These Regulations permit the employment of young persons between 7 a.m. and 3 p.m. on precision engineering and toolmaking as carried on at the premises of Anton Anger Engineering Limited at Beechpark, Ennis, Co. Clare.