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S.I. No. 81/1979 -- Conditions of Employment (Manufacture of Transformers) (Exclusion) Regulations, 1979.

S.I. No. 81/1979 -- Conditions of Employment (Manufacture of Transformers) (Exclusion) Regulations, 1979. 1979 81

S.I. No. 81/1979:

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT (MANUFACTURE OF TRANSFORMERS) (EXCLUSION) REGULATIONS, 1979.

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT (MANUFACTURE OF TRANSFORMERS) (EXCLUSION) REGULATIONS, 1979.

I, GENE FITZGERALD, Minister for Labour, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by sections 29 and 52 of the Conditions of Employment Act, 1936 (No. 2 of 1936), and the Labour (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order, 1966 ( S.I. No. 164 of 1966 ), and after consultation with representatives of employers interested in the form of industrial work specified in these Regulations and with representatives of workers so interested, hereby make the following regulations:

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Conditions of Employment (Manufacture of Transformers) (Exclusion) Regulations, 1979.

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

3. The following form of industrial work, namely, the manufacture of transformers as carried on at the premises of Pauwels Trafo Ireland Limited, Dublin Road, in the county of Cavan, is hereby declared to be excluded industrial work for the purpose of section 46 of the Conditions of Employment Act, 1936 (No. 2 of 1936).

4. The following provisions shall have effect in respect of the work to which these Regulations relate:

( a ) no woman shall be employed to do any such work at any time between the hour of 10 p.m. and the hour of 6 a.m. the following morning;

( b ) no woman shall be employed on any day until the expiration of eleven hours from the time at which she ceased to do industrial work on the previous day.

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 20th day of March, 1979.

GENE FITZGERALD,

Minister for Labour.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

The Conditions of Employment Act, 1936 prohibits the employment of adult females on industrial work between the hours of 10 p.m. on any day and 8 a.m. the following morning. The effect of these Regulations is to permit the employment of adult females on 8 hour shifts between the hours of 6 a.m. and 10 p.m. on the manufacture of transformers as carried on at the premises of Pauwels Trafo Ireland Ltd., Dublin Road, Cavan.



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