STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS.

S.I. No. 261 of 1981.

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT (MANUFACTURE OF CONTACT LENSES) (EXCLUSION) REGULATIONS, 1981.

S.I. No. 261 of 1981.

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT (MANUFACTURE OF CONTACT LENSES) (EXCLUSION) REGULATIONS, 1981.

I, LIAM KAVANAGH, 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 Contact Lenses) (Exclusion) Regulations, 1981.

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

3. The following form of industrial work, namely, the manufacture of contact lenses as carried on at the premises of Bausch and Lomb Ireland Limited, Industrial Estate, Waterford 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 hour of 12 midnight on any day and the hour of 8 a.m. on the following day.

(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.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

(This note is not part of the Instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation.)

The Conditions of Employment Act, 1936 prohibits the employment of adult female workers between the hours of 10 a.m. on any day and 8 a.m. the following day. The effect of these Regulations is to permit the employment of adult females on shift work between the hours of 8 a.m. and 12 midnight on the manufacture of contact lenses as carried on at the premises of Bausch and Lomb Ireland Limited, Industrial Estate, Waterford.