S.I. No. 31/1952 -- Conditions of Employment (Glass Manufacture) (Employment of Young Persons At Night) Regulations, 1952.
S.I. No. 31/1952: CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT (GLASS MANUFACTURE) (EMPLOYMENT OF YOUNG PERSONS AT NIGHT) REGULATIONS, 1952. |
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CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT (GLASS MANUFACTURE) (EMPLOYMENT OF YOUNG PERSONS AT NIGHT) REGULATIONS, 1952. |
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I, SEÁN F. LEMASS, Minister for Industry and Commerce, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by subsection (2) of section 47 of the Conditions of Employment Act, 1936 (No. 2 of 1936), and of every and any other power me in this behalf enabling, hereby make the following regulations:-- |
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1. These regulations may be cited as the Conditions of Employment (Glass Manufacture) (Employment of Young Persons at Night) Regulations, 1952. |
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2. The Interpretation Act, 1937 (No. 38 of 1937), applies to these regulations. |
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3. Male young persons whose age is over sixteen years may be employed to carry on the forms of industrial work specified in the schedule hereto subject to the following conditions :-- |
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(a) they shall be employed under a system providing for at least three shifts ; |
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(b) the hours of work of each young person shall not exceed an average of forty-two per week, the average being calculated over a period not exceeding four weeks ; |
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(c) the length of a spell of work shall not exceed eight hours ; |
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(d) the interval between two spells of work by the same shift shall not be less than sixteen hours : provided that this interval may be reduced, where necessary, on the occasion of the periodical change-over of shifts ; |
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(e) no such young person shall be employed to do any work for the undertaking for a longer period in any day than that permitted by the preceding paragraphs. |
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SCHEDULE. |
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(a) Mould Holding--involving the holding of split moulds by junior glasshouse attendants in the process of ball blowing by adult male workers ; |
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(b) Knocking-off--removing surplus glass from moulded articles and unused glass from blow-pipes ; |
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(c) Taking in--transferring moulded articles while still hot by means of asbestos shrouded forks to the Lehr or annealing stove, and |
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(d) Taking out--removing annealed articles from the annealing stove. |
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GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 6th day of February, 1952. |
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(Signed) SEÁN F. LEMASS, |
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Ministry for Industry and Commerce. |
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