No. 189/1938:

HOTELS (WORKING HOURS) ORDER, 1938.

HOTELS (WORKING HOURS) ORDER, 1938.

WHEREAS it is enacted by sub-section (3) of Section 20 of the Shops (Conditions of Employment) Act, 1938 (No. 4 of 1938), that, notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (2) of the said Section 20, the proprietor of a shop may permit any member of the staff of such shop, whose age is sixteen years or more, to do in any week shop work for him for a period in excess of, in case such shop is a hotel, fifty-six hours or, in any other case, forty-eight hours, so however that the number of hours of shop work done (whether for such proprietor alone or such proprietor and other persons) by such member does not exceed—

(a) in case such shop is a hotel—

(i) sixty-six hours in any week, or

(ii) two hundred and forty-four hours in any period of four consecutive weeks, or

(iii) two thousand nine hundred hours in any year, or

(b) in any other case—

(i) sixty hours in any week, or

(ii) two hundred and sixteen hours in any period of four consecutive weeks, or

(iii) two thousand six hundred hours in any year.

AND WHEREAS it is enacted by sub-section (9) of the said Section 20 the Minister for Industry and Commerce may, whenever and so often as he thinks fit, by order under the said sub-section amend in respect of all shops or shops of a specified class (defined in such manner and by reference to such things as he thinks fit) in any area specified in or delimited by such order any of the provisions of the said Section 20 relating to hours and declare that such amendment shall apply in respect of a specified period, and in that case the said Section 20 shall, during the period so specified have effect in respect of such shops subject to such amendment :

NOW, THEREFORE, the Minister for Industry and Commerce, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sub-section (9) of Section 20 of the Shops (Conditions of Employment) Act, 1938 (No. 4 of 1938), and every and any other power him in this behalf enabling, hereby orders as follows :—

1. This Order may be cited as the Hotels (Working Hours) Order, 1938.

2. —(1) Sub-section (3) of Section 20 of the Shops (Conditions of Employment) Act, 1938 (No. 4 of 1938), is hereby amended in respect of hotels in the State (other than the part thereof comprising the county borough of Dublin) as follows :—

(a) by the substitution in clause (ii) of paragraph (a) of the said sub-section of the words " two hundred and sixty-four hours " for the words " two hundred and forty-four hours " ;

(b) by the substitution in clause (iii) of the said paragraph (a) of the words " three thousand one hundred hours " for the words " two thousand nine hundred hours".

(2) The amendment affected by this Article shall apply in respect of the period commencing on the 12th day of June, 1938, and ending on the 31st day of December, 1938.

Given under the Official Seal of the Minister for Industry and Commerce this 15th day of June, 1938.

JOHN LEYDON, Secretary,

Department of Industry and Commerce.