No. 270/1937:

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT (MEN'S AND BOYS' TAILORING) (PROHIBITION OF EMPLOYMENT OF OUTWORKERS) ORDER, 1937.

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT (MEN'S AND BOYS' TAILORING) (PROHIBITION OF EMPLOYMENT OF OUTWORKERS) ORDER, 1937.

THE CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT (MEN'S AND BOYS' TAILORING) (PROHIBITION OF EMPLOYMENT OF OUTWORKERS) ORDER, 1937, MADE BY THE MINISTER FOR INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE ON THE 9TH DAY OF OCTOBER, 1937, PURSUANT TO SECTION 17 of THE CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT ACT, 1936 .

WHEREAS it is enacted by sub-section (1) of Section 17 of the Conditions of Employment Act, 1936 (No. 2 of 1936), that the Minister for Industry and Commerce may in respect of any form of industrial work by order make regulations prohibiting the employment of outworkers in such form of industrial work and that when any regulations made under the said section are for the time being in force it shall not be lawful for any employer to employ any outworker to do such form of industrial work.

AND WHEREAS it is enacted by sub-section (2) of the said Section 17 that any regulations made under that section in respect of any form of industrial work may be expressed to be limited in effect to an area specified therein and that whenever such regulations are expressed to be so limited they shall render unlawful the employment of outworkers resident in that area to do such form of industrial work but shall not restrict the employment of any other outworkers.

NOW, THEREFORE, the Minister for Industry and Commerce, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by Section 17 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. The employment of outworkers in the form of industrial work specified in the schedule to this Order is, subject to the provisions of these regulations, hereby prohibited.

3. These regulations are limited in effect to the area of the County Borough of Dublin and the Borough of Dun Laoghaire.

4. These regulations shall come into operation on the 1st day of December, 1937.

This Order may be cited for all purposes as the Conditions of Employment (Men's and Boys' Tailoring) (Prohibition of Employment of Outworkers) Order, 1937.

By Order of the Minister for Industry and Commerce.

Dated this 9th day of October, 1937.

JOHN LEYDON,

Secretary,

Department of Industry and Commerce.

SCHEDULE.

Men's and boys' ready-made, wholesale bespoke, or retail bespoke tailoring, including the altering, repairing, renovating or remaking of men's or boys' tailored garments.