Holidays (Employees) Act, 1961

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Number 33 of 1961.

HOLIDAYS (EMPLOYEES) ACT, 1961.

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

Preliminary

Section
1.	Short title and commencement.
2.	Definitions generally.
3.	Workers.
4.	“Employment year” and “employment half-year”.
5.	Meaning of “a whole holiday”.
6.	Expenses.
7.	Repeals and consequential amendment.

PART II

Public Holidays

8.	Public Holidays in respect of all workers.
9.	Rights of workers in respect of public holidays.

PART III

Annual Leave

10.	Annual leave of non-domestic workers.
11.	Failure to allow annual leave to a non-domestic worker.
12.	Restriction on work during annual leave.
13.	Annual leave of domestic workers.
14.	Failure to allow annual leave to a domestic worker.
15.	Payment in lieu of board and lodgings during leave.
16.	Annual leave of non-domestic workers in one or more than one period of consecutive days.
17.	Reckoning of days off with pay as annual leave.

PART IV

Miscellaneous

18.	Recovery by workers of moneys due by employers.
19.	Offences by bodies corporate.
20.	Prosecution of offences.
21.	Emergency as defence.
22.	Penalties for offences.
23.	Laying of orders and regulations before Houses of the Oireachtas.
24.	Powers of inspectors.
25.	Records.

Acts Referred to
Employment Act, 1936	1936, No. 2
Shops (Conditions of Employment) Act, 1938	1938, No. 4
Agricultural Workers (Holidays) Act, 1950	1950, No. 21
Civil Service Commissioners Act, 1956	1956, No. 45
Holidays (Employees) Act	1939, No. 1
Social Welfare Act, 1952	1952, No. 11
Insurance (Intermittent Unemployment) Act, 1942	1942, No. 7

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Number 33 of 1961.

HOLIDAYS (EMPLOYEES) ACT, 1961.

AN ACT TO MAKE BETTER PROVISION FOR THE ALLOWANCE OF HOLIDAYS TO EMPLOYED PERSONS AND TO PROVIDE FOR OTHER MATTERS CONNECTED WITH THE MATTER AFORESAID. [9th August, 1961.]

BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS:—

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