S.I. No. 190/1977:

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT (TEXTILE MANUFACTURING, WOOL AND FIBRE YARN SPINNING) (EXCLUSION) REGULATIONS, 1977.

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT (TEXTILE MANUFACTURING, WOOL AND FIBRE YARN SPINNING) (EXCLUSION) REGULATIONS, 1977.

I, MICHAEL O'LEARY, 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 (Textile Manufacturing, Wool and Fibre Yarn Spinning) (Exclusion) Regulations, 1977.

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

3. The following form of industrial work, namely, textile manufacturing embracing the industrial operations of blending, carding, spinning, twisting and reeling of wool and fibre yarn as carried out at the premises of Pharaon Textiles Limited at Tycor, Waterford, in the county of Waterford, is hereby declared to be excluded industrial work for the purposes of sections 46 and 47 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 11.00 p.m. on any day and the hour of 7.00 a.m. on the following day;

( b ) no young person shall be employed to do any such work at any time between the hour of 10 p.m. on any day and the hour of 7.00 a.m. on the following day;

( c ) no woman or young person shall be employed on any day until after 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 23rd day of June, 1977.

MICHAEL O'LEARY,

Minister for Labour.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

The Conditions of Employment Act, 1936 , provides that young persons may not be employed in industrial work between the hours of 8 p.m. on any day and 8 a.m. on the following day and that female workers may not be employed between 10 p.m. and 8 a.m.

The effect of these Regulations is to permit the employment of young persons between 7.00 a.m. and 10.00 p.m. and adult females between 7 a.m. and 11. p.m. on the work of textile manufacturing embracing the industrial operations of blending, carding, spinning and twisting of wool and fibre yarn at the premises of Pharaon Textiles, Tycor, Waterford.