No. 52/1933:

THE GENERAL WASTE MATERIALS RECLAMATION TRADE BOARD.

THE GENERAL WASTE MATERIALS RECLAMATION TRADE BOARD.

ROINN TIONNSCAIL AGUS TRÁCHTÁLA.

(Department of Industry and Commerce.)

TRADE BOARDS.

WASTE MATERIALS RECLAMATION TRADE (GENERAL WASTE BRANCH).

REGULATIONS DATED MARCH 1, 1933, MADE BY THE MINISTER FOR INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE UNDER SECTION ELEVEN OF THE TRADE BOARDS ACT, 1909, WITH RESPECT TO THE CONSTITUTION AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE TRADE BOARD FOR THE WASTE MATERIALS RECLAMATION TRADE (GENERAL WASTE BRANCH).

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

1. A Trade Board shall be established for the branch of the trade specified in the Trade Boards (Waste Materials Reclamation) Order, 1920, (*) which is set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.

2.—

(a) The Trade Board shall consist of not less than nine and not more than 15 persons.

(b) The number of representative members shall be not less than 8 and not more than 12. 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.

* S.R. & O. 1920. No. 305.

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

(b) Four members representing workers 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 ease 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 General Waste Materials Reclamation Trade Board."

14. These Regulations shall take effect on the 1st May, 1933, and as from that date the Regulations dated the 1st January, 1922* with respect to the constitution and proceedings of the General Waste Materials Reclamation Trade Board (Southern Ireland) are revoked; provided that nothing in these Regulations shall affect the validity of any proceedings of the Trade Board established under the said Regulations of the 1st January, 1922, or of any minimum rates fixed by the said Board and in operation at this date.

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 First day of March in the Year One Thousand Nine Hundred and Thirty-three.

JOHN LEYDON,

Secretary of the Department of Industry and Commerce.

* S.R. & O. 1922. No. 21.

SCHEDULE.

THE GENERAL WASTE BRANCH OF THE WASTE RECLAMATION TRADE, that is to say:—

1. The collecting, sorting or grading of the following materials:—rags; waste paper; paper stocks; woollen, worsted, cotton, jute, flax, hemp or other textile waste; textile clippings or cuttings; used bags, sacks or sacking; scrap rubber; scrap iron or other scrap metal; fur cuttings; rabbit skins; bones or fat; used tins; broken glass or earthenware;

2. the collecting, sorting or grading of the following articles when collected, sorted or graded in association with or in conjunction with the collecting, sorting or grading of the waste materials specified above:—discarded clothing (including headgear or foot-gear); discarded textile articles; old ropes, used bottles or used jars;

3. the following operations when carried on in association with or in conjunction with the collecting, sorting or grading of any or all of the waste materials specified in 1 above:—the ripping of worn clothes for rags, the picking of old ropes; the trimming of paper salvage; the washing of used bottles or used jars; the washing of used tins; the breaking of scrap metal; the drying of rabbit skins; the making or repairing of sacks or bags; the willowing, pulling, scouring, carbonising or putting down mixings of textile waste;

4. the operations of receiving, packing, compressing, teagling, craning, despatching or warehousing when carried on in association with or in conjunction with any of the above-mentioned operations;

but excluding:—

(a) any of the above-mentioned operations when carried on in the establishments in which the waste materials are produced or in which they are used as raw materials for further manufacture;

(b) the making or repairing of sacks or bags when carried on in a factory or worsshop engaged solely or mainly in the making or repairing of sacks or bags;

(c) the collecting, sorting, grading or drying of rabbit skins when carried on in an establishment in which such operations are the main or principal business or when carried on in or in association with or in conjunction with any business, establishment, branch or department engaged in the manufacture of hatters' fur;

(d)—

(i) the collecting, sorting or grading of cotton waste when carried on in an establishment in which such operations are the main or principal business;

(ii) any of the operations included in paragraphs 1, 2, 3 and 4 above, other than the operations specified in paragraph (d) (i) above, when carried on in or in association with or in conjunction with any establishment of the kind specified in sub-paragraph (i) above.