No. 566/1935:

APPRENTICESHIP ACT (HOUSE PAINTING AND DECORATING TRADE) SPECIAL ORDER, 1935.

APPRENTICESHIP ACT (HOUSE PAINTING AND DECORATING TRADE) SPECIAL ORDER, 1935.

APPRENTICESHIP ACT (HOUSE PAINTING AND DECORATING TRADE) SPECIAL ORDER, 1935, MADE BY THE MINISTER FOR INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE ON THE 12TH DAY OF SEPTEMBER, 1935, PURSUANT TO SUB-SECTION (1) OF SECTION 2 of THE APPRENTICESHIP ACT, 1931 .

WHEREAS it is enacted by sub-section (1) of section 2 of the Apprenticeship Act, 1931 , that, subject to the provisions of the said section, the Minister for Industry and Commerce may by order (in the said Act referred to as a special order) do any of the following things, that is to say :—

(a) declare any particular trade to be a designated trade for the purposes of the said Act either throughout Saorstát Eireann or in any specified part of Saorstát Eireann ; or

(b) revoke or amend any order previously made by him under the said sub-section.

NOW, THEREFORE, the Minister for Industry and Commerce, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sub-section (1) of section 2 of the Apprenticeship Act, 1931 , and of every and any other power him in this behalf enabling, by this special order declares the particular trade mentioned in the Schedule to this order to be a designated trade for the purposes of the Apprenticeship Act, 1931 , throughout Saorstát Eireann.

The Interpretation Act, 1923 , applies to the interpretation of this order in like manner as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of the Oireachtas.

This order may be cited for all purposes as the Apprenticeship Act (House Painting and Decorating Trade) Special Order, 1935.

By Order of the Minister for Industry and Commerce.

Dated this 12th day of September, 1935.

(Signed) JOHN LEYDEN, Secretary,

Department of Industry and Commerce.

SCHEDULE.

THE HOUSE PAINTING AND DECORATING TRADE.

that is to say—

Any of the following operations or processes when performed on the interior or exterior surface of any building, ship or other craft or a structure or erection of any kind :—

1.—PAINTING AND DISTEMPERING.

(a) The application of paint, distemper or other medium of any kind to any surface by manual or mechanical process, and the preparatory mixing of such paint, distemper or other medium for the purpose of producing various finishes.

(b) The preparation of the grounds and all operations (including the removal of paint, knotting, priming, stopping, filling up, surfacing and washing) preparatory to the application of such paint, distemper or other medium.

(c) Dusting, cleaning or washing for purposes of restoration or renovation when done on any surface either apart from or in conjunction or in association with operations involving the application of paint, distemper or other medium.

(d) Hacking-out, puttying and glazing when such operations are performed in conjunction or in association with operations involving the application of paint, distemper or other medium.

2.—PAPERING AND WHITENING.

(a) The hanging and application of wallpaper and other hangings including textile fabrics, imitation leather papers, Japanese grass cloth and relief materials.

(b) The papering or whitening of ceilings.

3.—IMITATION PAINTING.

The operations of graining (including processes by roller and transfer), marbling, gilding, graniting, and also the representation of inlays, marqueterie, mosaic, ivory, bronze and other imitational paintings.

4.—DECORATIVE PAINTING.

Striping, lining and outlining, stippling stencilling (including the designing and cutting of stencils), oil gilding, matt and burnish gilding, glazing, scumbling, gesso, representation of tapestry, painting or distempering in monochrome or in polychrome or in raised or sanded decorative style.

5.—LETTERING.

Letter-writing and embossing, gilding and colouring on glass, heraldic painting and the treatment and fixing by adhesive composition of letters made of wood or other substance.

6.—STAINING.

The preparation, mixing and application of stains, ornamental and decorative staining, chemical staining, oil and wax polishing.

7.—VARNISHING.

The application of spirit oil, gum, cellulose or varnish by manual or mechanical means, including the processes of felting down and hand polishing, flatting and encaustic varnishing.

INCLUDING

The necessary preparatory processes in connection with the work detailed in the foregoing paragraphs numbered 2 to 7 inclusive.

BUT EXCLUDING

(a) The veneering of wood staining, enamelling, painting, japanning, lacquering, spraying and any other like operation if such operation be ancillary to and carried on in the same premises as any of the processes mentioned in the First Schedule to the Apprenticeship Act (Furniture Trade) Special Order, 1934.

(b) All or any of the above-mentioned operations or processes when applied to the work of vehicle painting.