S.I. No. 230/1981 - Conditions of Employment (Laboratory Disposals) (Exclusion) Regulations, 1981.

I, TOM NOLAN, 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 (Laboratory Disposals) (Exclusion) Regulations, 1981.

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

3. The following form of industrial work, namely, the production of medical laboratory disposals by injection moulding process as carried on at the premises of Medical Mouldings Incorporated, Spiddal, in the country of Galway, is hereby declared to be excluded industrial work for the purposes 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) these Regulations shall apply only to women who hold positions of responsibility of a management or technical character;

(b) no woman shall be employed to do any such work unless at least eleven hours have elapsed since she ceased to do industrial work on the previous day.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

(This note is not part of the Instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation.)

The Conditions of Employment Act, 1936 prohibits the employment of adult female workers between the hours of 10 p.m. on any day and 8 a.m. the following morning. The effect of these Regulations is to remove this restriction in the case of adult females holding responsible positions of a managerial or technical nature. These Regulations permit the employment of adult females on 8 hour shifts on the production of medical laboratory disposals by injection moulding process as carried on at the premises of Medical Mouldings Incorporated, Spiddal, Co. Galway.