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S.I. No. 388/1936 -- Conditions of Employment (Glass Bottle Works) (Employment of Young Persons At Night) Order, 1936.

S.I. No. 388/1936 -- Conditions of Employment (Glass Bottle Works) (Employment of Young Persons At Night) Order, 1936. 1936 388

No. 388/1936:

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT (GLASS BOTTLE WORKS) (EMPLOYMENT OF YOUNG PERSONS AT NIGHT) ORDER, 1936.

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT (GLASS BOTTLE WORKS) (EMPLOYMENT OF YOUNG PERSONS AT NIGHT) ORDER, 1936.

THE CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT (GLASS BOTTLE WORKS) (EMPLOYMENT OF YOUNG PERSONS AT NIGHT) ORDER, 1936, MADE BY THE MINISTER FOR INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE ON THE 9th DAY OF DECEMBER, 1936, PURSUANT TO SUB-SECTION (2) OF SECTION 47 of THE CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT ACT, 1936 .

WHEREAS it is enacted by sub-section (1) of Section 47 of the Conditions of Employment Act, 1936 (No. 2 of 1936), that notwithstanding any provision of the said Act other than the provision empowering the Minister to make exclusion regulations it shall not be lawful for any employer to permit any young person not being a young person deemed to be an adult for the purposes of the said Act to do for him any industrial work at any time in the period (in the said section referred to as the prohibited period) between the hour of 8 p.m. on any day and the hour of 8 a.m. on the following day unless such young person is a male young person and is so employed under and in accordance with regulations made by the Minister under the said section.

AND WHEREAS it is enacted by sub-section (2) of Section 47 of the said Act that the Minister for Industry and Commerce may by order make regulations authorising the employment of male young persons whose age is over sixteen years to carry on at any time in the prohibited period any of the following forms of industrial work, that is to say :—

(a) processes in which reverberatory or regenerative furnaces are used for the manufacture of iron and steel and the galvanising of sheet metal or wire (except the pickling process) ;

(b) manufacture of glass ;

(c) manufacture of paper ;

(d) manufacture of raw sugar ;

(e) gold mining reduction work ;

and that the Minister may by such regulations impose in respect of such employment such conditions, limitations or restrictions as he may think proper.

NOW, THEREFORE, the Minister for Industry and Commerce in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sub-section (2) of Section 47 of the Conditions of Employment Act, 1936 (No. 2 of 1936), and of every and any other power him in this behalf enabling, makes by this Order, the following regulations, that is to say :—

(1) The Interpretation Act, 1923 (No. 46 of 1923), applies to the interpretation of these regulations in like manner as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of the Oireachtas.

(2) It shall be lawful for an employer to employ male young persons whose age is over sixteen years to carry on at any time in the period referred to in Section 47 of the said Act as the prohibited period, the form of industrial work specified in the Schedule to this Order.

This Order may be cited for all purposes as the Conditions of Employment (Glass Bottle Works) (Employment of Young Persons at Night) Order, 1936.

By Order of the Minister for Industry and Commerce.

Dated this 9th day of December, 1936.

JOHN LEYDON,

Secretary,

Department of Industry and Commerce.

SCHEDULE.

Any process of " taking in " or " taking out " that requires to be carried on continuously day and night by workers employed on shift work in the manufacture of glass bottles or jars.



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