No. 339/1938:

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT (WORSTED SPINNING) (YOUNG PERSONS DEEMED TO BE ADULT WORKERS) REGULATIONS, 1938.

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT (WORSTED SPINNING) (YOUNG PERSONS DEEMED TO BE ADULT WORKERS) REGULATIONS, 1938.

WHEREAS it is enacted by sub-section (1) of Section 40 of the Conditions of Employment Act, 1936 (No. 2 of 1936), that the Minister for Industry and Commerce, if he is satisfied that young persons employed to do any form of industrial work are so employed as assistants to adult workers and that the work of such adult workers could not proceed in a satisfactory manner if such young persons did not work for the same hours as such adult workers, may by order make regulations in accordance with the said section directing that young persons or young persons who have attained a specified age while doing such form of industrial work shall be deemed to be adult workers for the purposes of the said Act :

AND WHEREAS it is enacted by sub-section (2) of the said section that the said Minister shall not make regulations in respect of any form of industrial work under the said section unless he has first consulted with representatives of employers interested in such form of industrial work and with representatives of workers so interested :

AND WHEREAS the said Minister is satisfied that young persons employed to do the form of industrial work specified in the Schedule to these Regulations are so employed as assistants to adult workers and that the work of such adult workers could not proceed in a satisfactory manner if such young persons did not work for the same hours as such adult workers :

AND WHEREAS the said Minister has, in relation to these Regulations, complied with the requirements of sub-section (2) of the said Section 40 :

NOW, the Minister for Industry and Commerce, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by Section 40 of the Conditions of Employment Act, 1936 (No. 2 of 1936), and of every and any other power him in this behalf enabling, hereby makes the following regulations, that is to say :—

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Conditions of Employment (Worsted Spinning) (Young Persons deemed to be Adult Workers) Regulations, 1938.

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

3. Young persons while doing the form of industrial work specified in the Schedule to these Regulations shall be deemed to be adult workers for the purposes of the Conditions of Employment Act, 1936 (No. 2 of 1936).

SCHEDULE.

Layers and takers-off in worsted spinning mills.

Given under the Seal of Office of the Minister for

Industry and Commerce, this 21st day of

December, 1938.

JOHN LEYDON,

Secretary,

Department of Industry and Commerce.