No. 27/1926:

THE WOMEN'S CLOTHING AND MILLINERY TRADE BOARD (IRISH FREE STATE).

THE WOMEN'S CLOTHING AND MILLINERY TRADE BOARD (IRISH FREE STATE).

RIONN TIONNSCAIL AGUS TRÁCHTÁLA.

(Department of Industry and Commerce.)

TRADE BOARDS.

WOMEN'S CLOTHING AND MILLINERY TRADE (IRISH FREE STATE).

Regulation, dated March 31st, 1926, made by the Minister for Industry and Commerce under Section 11 of the Trade Boards Act, 1909 (9 Edw. 7, c. 22), with respect to the Constitution and Proceedings of the Trade Board for the Women's Clothing and Millinery Trade (Irish Free State).

The Minister for Industry and Commerce, in pursuance of his power under Section 11 of the Trade Boards Act, 1909, and of every other power him hereunto enabling, is pleased to make the annexed Regulations.

1. A Trade Board shall be established in the Irish Free State for the trade specified in the Trade Boards (Women's Clothing and Millinery) Order, 1926, ^(a) and set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.

^(a) S.R. & O., 1926, No. 8.

2. (a) The Trade Board shall consist of not less than 13 and not more than 19 persons.

(b) The number of representative members shall be not less than 12 and not more than 16. The representative members shall be members representing employers and members representing workers in equal numbers.

(c) The number of appointed members shall be at least one and not more than three.

3. (a) The Chairman shall be appointed by the Minister for Industry and Commerce from among the members of the Trade Board.

(b) If the Minister for Industry and Commerce considers the appointment of a Deputy Chairman desirable he shall appoint a Deputy Chairman from the remaining members of the Trade Board.

4. (a) The appointed member or members shall be such one or more of the appointed members of Trade Boards, not exceeding three, as may be directed by the Minister for Industry and Commerce to act on the Trade Board.

(b) At least one of the appointed members shall be a woman, and if only one appointed member is directed to act that one shall be a woman.

5. The selection and appointment of representative members shall be as follows, due regard being paid to the representation of the various branches of the trade and of the various districts in which the trade is carried on :—

(a) Six members representing employers in the trade shall be appointed by the Minister for Industry and Commerce after considering names supplied by such employers.

(b) Six members representing employees in the trade shall be appointed by the Minister for Industry and Commerce after considering names supplied by such workers.

6. The Minister for Industry and Commerce may, if he thinks it necessary in order to secure proper representation of any class or classes of employers or workers, after giving the Trade Board an opportunity to be heard, appoint additional representative members to serve upon the Trade Board. The number of such additional representative members shall always be an even number not exceeding four in all. Half shall be representatives of employers and half shall be representatives of workers.

7. Any member representing employers who ceases to be an employer and becomes a worker at the trade shall vacate his seat. Any member representing workers who becomes an employer in the trade shall vacate his seat. The question of fact shall in each case be determined by the Minister for Industry and Commerce.

8. Any member who, in the opinion of the Minister for Industry and Commerce, fails without reasonable cause to attend one-half of the total number of meetings in a calendar year shall vacate his seat.

9. If, in the opinion of the Minister for Industry and Commerce, any member shall be incapable of acting as a member of the Trade Board the Minister for Industry and Commerce may determine his appointment, and he shall thereupon vacate his seat.

10. A vacancy among members shall be filled in the same manner as in the case of the original appointment to the vacated seat.

11. (a) Subject as hereinafter provided every member of the Trade Board shall have one vote.

(b) If at any meeting of the Board the numbers of members present representing employers and workers are unequal, it shall be open to the side which is in the majority to arrange that one or more of its members shall refrain from voting so as to preserve equality. Failing such an arrangement the Chairman, or in his absence the Deputy Chairman if one has been appointed, may, if he thinks it desirable, adjourn the voting on any question to another meeting of the Board.

(c) If the number of appointed members directed to act on the Trade Board is two, the Chairman shall have a second or casting vote on any question on which the voting is otherwise equal.

12. The Trade Board shall continue in existence until dissolved by order of the Minister for Industry and Commerce.

13. The Trade Board may be known under the short title of "The Women's Clothing and Millinery Trade Board (Irish Free State)."

14. These Regulations shall take effect on the 31st March, 1926, and as from that date the Regulations dated the 1st January, 1922 ^(a) with respect to the constitution and proceedings of the Dressmaking and Women's Light Clothing Trade Board (Southern Ireland) and the Regulations dated the 1st January, 1922, ^(b) with respect to the constitution and proceedings of the Wholesale Mantle and Costume Trade Board (Southern Ireland), are revoked.

^(a) S. R. & O., 1922, No. 9.

^(b) S. R. & O. 1922, No. 22.

15. Any questions upon the construction or interpretation of these Regulations shall, in the event of dispute, be referred to the Minister for Industry and Commerce, for decision.

Given under the official seal of the Minister for Industry and Commerce this thirty-first day of March, in the year one thousand nine hundred and twenty-six.

GORDON CAMPBELL,

Secretary.

Department of Industry and Commerce.

SCHEDULE.

THE WOMEN'S CLOTHING AND MILLINERY TRADE, that is to say :—

The making from textile or knitted fabrics of (a) tailored and non-tailored wearing-apparel (other than handkerchiefs) worn by women or girls or by children without distinction of sex, or (b) boys' ready-made washing suits or sailor suits, where carried out in association with or in conjunction with the making of garments to be worn by women or girls, or by children without distinction of sex; and the making from any material of women's or female children's headgear, or the trimming thereof, including :—

1. All operations and processes of cutting, making or finishing by hand or machine of coats, costumes, coat-frocks, mantles, service clothing, dresses, skirts, wraps, blouses, blouse-robes, jumpers, sports coats, neckwear, tea-gowns, dressing-gowns, dressing-jackets, pyjamas, underclothing, underskirts, aprons, overalls, juvenile clothing, baby-linen or similar articles :

2. (a) The altering, repairing, renovating or remaking of any of the above-mentioned articles :

(b) The cleaning of any of the above-mentioned garments where carried out in association with or in conjunction with the altering, repairing, renovating or remaking of such garments :

3. All processes of embroidery or decorative needlework where carried out in association with or in conjunction with the making, altering, repairing, renovating or remaking of such articles other than hand embroidery or hand-drawn thread work on articles made of linen or cotton or of mixed linen and cotton :

4. The lining with fur of any of the above-mentioned garments where carried out in association with or in conjunction with the making of such garments:

5. The following processes if done by machine : thread-drawing, thread-clipping, top-sewing, scalloping, nickelling and paring :

6. Laundering, smoothing, folding, ornamenting, boxing, packing, warehousing, or other operations incidental to or appertaining to the making, altering, repairing, renovating or remaking of any of the above-mentioned articles.

But excluding :—

(a) The making of knitted articles, knitted headgear, the making of headgear from knitted fabrics ; the making of underclothing, socks and stockings, from knitted fabrics, and the making from knitted fabrics of articles mentioned in paragraph 1 above, where carried on in association with or in conjunction with the manufacture of the knitted fabrics :

(b) The making of gloves, spats, gaiters, boots, shoes and slippers :

(c) The making of rubberised or oilskin garments ; and the making of rubberised or oilskin headgear where carried on in association with or in conjunction with the making of other rubberised or oilskin articles :

(d) The making of women's collars and cuffs and of nurses' stiff washing belts where carried on in association with or in conjunction with the making of men's or boys' shirts or collars :

(e) Warehousing, packing and other similar operations carried on in shops mainly engaged in the retail distribution of articles of any description that are not made on the premises :

(f) The casting and making of solid metal helmets :

(g) The lining with fur of any of the articles mentioned in paragraph 1 above and the making of fur hats, where carried on in association with or in conjunction with the manufacture of furs or furriers' skins into garments, rugs, or similar articles :

(h) The branches of trade covered by the Trade Board (Corset) Order, 1919 ^(a).

^(a) S. R. & O., 1919. No. 570.