No. 121/1938:

NIGHT WORK (BAKERIES) (EXCEPTIONAL WORK FOR LIMITED PERIODS) REGULATIONS, 1938.

NIGHT WORK (BAKERIES) (EXCEPTIONAL WORK FOR LIMITED PERIODS) REGULATIONS, 1938.

WHEREAS it is enacted by sub-section (2) of Section 5 of the Night Work (Bakeries) Act, 1936 (No. 42 of 1936), that the Minister for Industry and Commerce may, after consultation with persons who in his opinion are representative of employers interested in bakeries and with persons who in his opinion are representative of workers so interested, by order make regulations prescribing as exceptional work for a limited period specified in such regulations all or any of the processes of manufacture carried on in any bakery to which that Act applies if the carrying on of such processes in the period of night is in the opinion of the said Minister necessary for the carrying on of such bakery during such period owing to—

(a) an unusual pressure of work, or

(b( national emergency,

and whenever the said Minister makes such regulations any process of manufacture prescribed thereby as exceptional work shall, for the period specified in such regulations, be exceptional work for the purposes of the said Act :

AND WHEREAS the Minister for Industry and Commerce is of opinion that the carrying on of all the processes of manufacture carried on in any bakery to which the said Act applies in the period of night is necessary for the carrying on of such bakery during each of the several periods specified in the schedule to these Regulations owing to an unusual pressure of work :

AND WHEREAS the Minister for Industry and Commerce has, before making these Regulations, consulted persons who in his opinion are representative of employers interested in bakeries and persons who in his opinion are representative of workers so interested in relation thereto :

NOW, the Minister for Industry and Commerce, in exercise of the power conferred on him by sub-section (2) of Section 5 of the Night Work (Bakeries) Act, 1936 (No. 42 of 1936), and of every and any other power him in this behalf enabling, hereby orders and makes the following Regulations :—

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Night Work (Bakeries) (Exceptional Work for Limited Periods) Regulations, 1938.

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

3. All the processes of manufacture carried on in any bakery to which the Night Work (Bakeries) Act, 1936 (No. 42 of 1936), applies shall be exceptional work during each of the periods specified in the schedule to these Regulations.

Given under the Seal of Office of the Minister for Industry and Commerce this 11th day of April, 1938.

R. C. FERGUSON,

Assistant Secretary,

Department of Industry and Commerce.

SCHEDULE.

LIMITED PERIODS OF EXCEPTIONAL WORK.

1. The period from 10 o'clock p.m. on the 12th day of April, 1938, to 6 o'clock a.m. on the 16th day of April, 1938.

2. The period from 10 o'clock p.m. on the 2nd day of June, 1938, to 6 o'clock a.m. on the 4th day of June, 1938.

3. The period from 10 o'clock p.m. on the 28th day of July, 1938, to 6 o'clock a.m. on the 30th day of July, 1938.

4. The period from 10 o'clock p.m. on the 25th day of October, 1938, to 6 o'clock a.m. on the 29th day of October, 1938.

5. The period from 10 o'clock p.m. on the 30th day of October, 1938, to 6 o'clock a.m. on the 31st day of October, 1938.

6. The period from 10 o'clock p.m. on the 18th day of December, 1938, to 6 o'clock a.m. on the 24th day of December, 1938.