S.I. No. 237/1949:

APPRENTICESHIP COMMITTEE FOR THE FURNITURE TRADE (DUBLIN) (CONFIRMATION OF RULES) ORDER, 1949.

APPRENTICESHIP COMMITTEE FOR THE FURNITURE TRADE (DUBLIN) (CONFIRMATION OF RULES) ORDER, 1949.

WHEREAS the Apprenticeship Committee for the Furniture Trade (Dublin) established, in accordance with the Furniture Trade (Constitution of Apprenticeship Committee) Regulations, 1934, for the particular trade declared by the Apprenticeship Act (Furniture Trade) Special Order, 1934, to be a designated trade for the purposes of the Apprenticeship Act, 1931 (No. 56 of 1931), and in the area constituted by the Apprenticeship District Order, 1934, to be an apprenticeship district for the purposes of such designated trade (namely the administrative County of Dublin and the County Borough of Dublin) has, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by section 8 of the said Act, made the rules set out in the Schedule to this Order, and has submitted the same to the Minister for Industry and Commerce:

AND WHEREAS it is enacted by subsection (1) of section 9 of the said Act that the Minister for Industry and Commerce may, in respect of any rule submitted to him by an apprenticeship committee under the said Act, either by order confirm such rule or refuse to confirm such rule :

NOW, THEREFORE, the Minister for Industry and Commerce in exercise of the powers conferred on him by subsection (1) of section 9 of the Apprenticeship Act, 1931 (No. 56 of 1931), and of every and any other power him in this behalf enabling, hereby orders as follows :--

1. This Order may be cited as the Apprenticeship Committee for the Furniture Trade (Dublin) (Confirmation of Rules) Order, 1949.

2. The Interpretation Act, 1937 (No. 38 of 1937), applies to this Order.

3. The rules set out in the Schedule to this Order are hereby confirmed and shall come into operation on the 8th day of August, 1949.

SCHEDULE.

PART I.

RULES REGULATING THE TRAINING OF APPRENTICES.

The Committee require that every apprentice shall be provided by his employer with reasonable facilities for learning all the operations and processes included in the class of the Trade to which the apprentice belongs as indicated in Part I of the Schedule to the Rules Regulating Apprenticeship in the Furniture Trade (Dublin). Notice F. (R. 17). Every apprentice when engaged on any of such operations or processes shall work under the guidance of a journeyman or an employer who has served his apprenticeship to such class of the Trade and who works at the Trade in the manner of a journeyman and it shall be the duty of the employer to ensure that such apprentice shall be trained and instructed by himself if so qualified, or by such journeyman to the utmost of his own or the journeyman's knowledge and skill.

PART II.

RULES REGULATING THE MINIMUM RATES OF WAGES.

The Rules of the Apprenticeship Committee for the Furniture Trade (Dublin) as set out in their Notice F. (R. 17) dated 5th December, 1947, are hereby amended as follows : that is to say, by the deletion of the Rules comprised under the heading " Rules Regulating the Minimum Rates of Wages," and by the substitution therefore of the following :--

The Committee specify hereunder the minimum rates of wages (other than wages for overtime) to be paid to male and female apprentices in the Trade in the Apprenticeship District.

Provided :--

(a) that the above rates shall be payable, in the case of apprentices of 18 years of age or over, per week of 44 hours and, in the case of apprentices whose age is less than 18 years, per week of 40 hours ;

(b) that a male apprentice who has attended a Junior Day Technical School Course for a period of two years shall, on being taken into employment in the Trade, be regarded, for the purpose of determining the rate of wages payable to him, as being in his second year of apprenticeship ;

(c) that, for the purpose of calculating the minimum rate per hour to which an apprentice is entitled, the minimum rate per week to which the apprentice is entitled under these Rules shall be divided by the maximum number of hours which may be worked in any week by the apprentice under Part IV of Notice F. (R. 17) ; and

(d) that the above minimum rates are without prejudice to the payment of higher rates by agreement or otherwise.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Industry and Commerce, this 22nd day of July, 1949.

(Signed) JOHN LEYDON,

Secretary,

Department of industry and Commerce,

A person authorised under Section 15 (1) of the Ministers and Secretaries Act, 1924 , to authenticate the Seal of the said Minister.