S.I. No. 25/1979:

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT (BREWING INDUSTRY) (EXCLUSION) REGULATIONS, 1979.

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT (BREWING INDUSTRY) (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 (Brewing Industry) (Exclusion) Regulations, 1979.

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

3. The following form of industrial work, namely, dispatch, laboratory, and supervisory services to the production and packaging processes in the brewing industry as carried on at the premises of Harp Lager Brewery (Ireland) Limited, Carrick Road, Dundalk, in the county of Louth, is hereby declared to be excluded industrial work for the purposes 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 hours of 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. the following morning;

( b ) no woman shall be employed to do such work unless at least eleven hours have expired since she ceased to do industrial work on the previous day.

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 31st day of January, 1979.

GENE FITZGERALD,

Minister for Labour.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

Section 46 of the Conditions of Employment Act, 1936 prohibits the employment of adult female workers on industrial work between the hours of 10 p.m. and 8 a.m. on the following day.

The effect of these Regulations is to permit the employment of adult females on eight hour shifts between the hours of 6 a.m. and 10 p.m. on the dispatch, laboratory and supervisory services to the production and packaging processes in the brewing industry as carried on at the premises of Harp Lager Brewery (Ireland) Limited, Carrick Road, Dundalk, Co. Louth.