No. 21/1931:

THE SHIRTMAKING TRADE BOARD (Irish Free Street)

THE SHIRTMAKING TRADE BOARD (Irish Free Street)

ROINN TIONNSCAIL AGUS TRACHTALA

(DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE).

TRADE BOARDS.

SHIRTMAKING TRADE (IRISH FREE STATE).

REGULATIONS DATED 10TH APRIL, 1931, MADE BY THE MINISTER FOR INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE UNDER SECTION 11 OF THE TRADE BOARDS ACT, 1909 (9 Edw. 7. c. 22), WITH RESPECT TO THE CONSTITUTION AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE TRADE BOARD FOR THE SHIRTMAKING TRADE IN THE IRISH FREE STATE.

The Minister for Industry and Commerce, in pursuance of his powers under Section 11 of the Trade Boards Act, 1909, and of every other power him hereunto enabling, is pleased to make the annexed Regulations.

1. A Trade Board shall be established in the Irish Free State for the trade specified in the Trade Boards (Shirtmaking) Order, 1920 and set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.

2.—(a) The Trade Board shall consist of not less than 15 and not more than 19 persons.

(b) The number of representative members shall be not less than 14 and not more than 16. The representative members shall be members representing employers and members representing workers in equal numbers.

(c) The number of appointed members shall be at least one and not more than three.

3.—(a) The Chairman shall be appointed by the Minister for Industry and Commerce from among the members of the Trade Board.

(b) If the Minister for Industry and Commerce considers the appointment of a Deputy Chairman desirable he shall appoint a Deputy Chairman from the remaining members of the Trade Board

4.—(a) The appointed member or members shall be such one or more of the appointed members of Trade Boards, not exceeding three, as may be directed by the Minister for Industry and Commerce to act on the Trade Board.

(b) At least one of the appointed members shall be a woman. and if only one appointed member is directed to act, that one shall be a woman.

5. The selection and appointment of representative members shall be as follows, due regard being paid to the representation of the various branches of the trade and of the various districts in which the trade is carried on:—

(a) S. R. & O. 1920, No. 711.

(a) Seven members representing employers in the trade shall be appointed by the Minister for Industry and Commerce after considering names supplied by such employers.

(b) Seven members representing workers in the trade shall be appointed by the Minister for Industry and Commerce after considering names supplied by such workers.

6. The Minister for Industry and Commerce may, if he thinks it necessary in order to secure proper representation of any class or classes of employers or workers, after giving the Trade Board an opportunity to be heard, appoint additional representative members to serve upon the Trade Board. The number of such additional representative members shall always be an even number not exceeding two in all. Half shall be representatives of employers, and halt shall be representatives of workers.

7. Any member representing employers who ceases to be an employer and becomes a worker at the trade shall vacate his seat. Any member representing workers who becomes an employer in the trade shall vacate his seat. The question of fact shall in each case be determined by the Minister for Industry and Commerce.

8. Any member who, in the opinion of the Minister for Industry and Commerce, fails without reasonable cause to attend one-half of the total number of meetings in a calendar year shall vacate his seat.

9. If, in the opinion of the Minister for Industry and Commerce, any member shall be incapable of acting as a member of the Trade Board, the Minister for Industry and Commerce may determine his appointment, and he shall thereupon vacate his seat.

10. A vacancy among members shall be filled in the same manner as in the case of the original appointment to the vacated seat.

11.—(a) Subject as hereinafter provided, every member of the Trade Board shall have one vote.

(b) If at any meeting of the Board the numbers of members present representing employers and workers are unequal, it shall be open to the side which is in the majority to arrange that one or more of its members shall refrain from voting so as to preserve equality. Failing such an arrangement, the Chairman, or in his absence, the Deputy-Chairman, if one has been appointed, may, if he thinks it desirable, adjourn the voting on any question to another meeting of the Board.

(c) If the number of appointed members directed to act on the Trade Board is two, the Chairman shall have a second or casting vote on any question on which the voting is otherwise equal.

12. The Trade Board shall continue in existence until dissolved by order of the Ministry for Industry and Commerce.

13. The Trade Board may be known under the short title of "The Shirtmaking Trade Board (Irish Free State)".

14. These Regulations shall take effect on the 14th April, 1931, and as from that date the Regulations dated the 1st January, 1922 with respect to the constitution and proceedings of the Shirtmaking Trade Board (Southern Ireland) are revoked; provided that nothing in these Regulations shall affect the validity of any proceedings of the Trade Board established under the said Regulations of the 1st January, 1922, or of any minimum rates fixed by the said Board and in operation at this date.

15. Any questions upon the construction or interpretation of these Regulations shall, in the event of dispute, be referred to the Minister for Industry and Commerce for decision.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Industry and Commerce, this Tenth day of April, in the Year One Thousand Nine Hundred and Thirty-one.

(Signed), GLENAVY,

Secretary of the Department of Industry and Commerce.

SCHEDULE.

THE SHIRTMAKING TRADE, that is to say:—

(1) the making from textile fabrics of shirts, cuffs, pyjamas, aprons, chefs' caps, hospital ward caps and other washable clothing worn by male persons ;

(2) the making of women's collars and cuffs and of nurses' washing belts where carried on in association with or in conjunction with the making of the before-mentioned articles ;

(3) the making of neckties worn by male persons, and of neckties worn by female persons where made in association with or in conjunction with the making of neckties worn by male persons ;

including:

Laundering, smoothing, folding, ornamenting, boxing, packing, warehousing, and all other operations incidental to or appertaining to the making of any of the above-named articles ;

but excluding :—

(1) the making of articles which are knitted or are made from knitted fabrics ;

(2) the making of handkerchiefs, mufflers, gloves, socks, stockings, spats, gaiters, hats or caps (other than chefs' caps and hospital ward caps) ;

(3) the making of boys' washing suits ;

(4) the making of washable clothing to be worn by children without distinction of sex ;

(5) the making of any articles, the making of which is included in the Trade Boards (Tailoring) Order, 1919. .

(a) S. R. & O. 1922, No. 18.

(b) S. R. & O. 1919, No. 1201.