No. 278/1941:

APPRENTICESHIP ACT, 1931.

APPRENTICESHIP ACT, 1931.

THE APPRENTICESHIP COMMITTEE FOR THE FURNITURE TRADE (DUBLIN) CONFIRMATION OF RULES ORDER, 1941, MADE BY THE MINISTER FOR INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE ON THE 9TH MAY, 1941, PURSUANT TO SUBSECTION (1) OF SECTION 9 of THE APPRENTICESHIP ACT, 1931 .

WHEREAS it is enacted by sub-section (5) of Section 8 of the Apprenticeship Act, 1931 (No. 56 of 1931), that every rule made by an apprenticeship committee under that section shall be submitted to the Minister for Industry and Commerce as soon as may be after it is made and no such rule shall be of any force or effect unless or until it is confirmed by order of the said Minister :

AND WHEREAS it is enacted by sub-section (1) of Section 9 of the said Act that the said Minister may, in respect of any rule submitted to him by an apprenticeship committee under that Act, either by order confirm such rule or refuse to confirm such rule :

AND WHEREAS the Apprenticeship Committee for the Furniture Trade (Dublin), being an apprenticeship committee established by the said Act, have, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by Section 8 of the said Act, made the Rules set out in the Schedule to this Order, and have duly submitted those rules to the Minister for Industry and Commerce for confirmation by him in accordance with the said Act :

NOW, the Minister for Industry and Commerce, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sub-section (1) of Section 9 of the Apprenticeship Act, 1931 (No. 56 of 1931), and of every and any other power him in this behalf enabling, hereby orders as follows :—

1. This Order may be cited as the Apprenticeship Committee for the Furniture Trade (Dublin) (Confirmation of Rules) Order, 1941.

2. The Interpretation Act, 1937 (No. 38 of 1937), applies to this Order and to the Rules set out in the Schedule thereto.

3. The Rules set out in the Schedule to this Order are hereby confirmed and shall come into operation on the eleventh day of June, 1941.

Given under the Official Seal of the Minister for Industry and Commerce this 9th day of May, 1941.

((Signed) R. C. FERGUSON, Secretary,

Department of Industry and Commerce.

SCHEDULE.

RULES REGULATING THE NUMBER OF APPRENTICES.

The Committee fix in relation to each employer carrying on the Trade in the Apprenticeship District, and specified in a list of such employers from time to time prepared by the Committee, the number of Apprentices which the Committee consider should be employed by each such employer, as follows :—

CLASS A :—ONE APPRENTICE to the first ONE, TWO OR THREE skilled workers * in that Class of the Trade and thereafter, ONE additional apprentice for each complete group of SIX skilled workers* in excess of the first three, in that Classs.

CLASS B :—ONE APPRENTICE to the first ONE, TWO OR THREE skilled workers* in that Class of the Trade and thereafter, ONE additional apprentice for each complete group of SIX skilled workers* in excess of the first three, in that class.

CLASS C :—ONE APPRENTICE to the first ONE, TWO OR THREE skilled workers* in that Class of the Trade and thereafter, ONE additional apprentice for each complete group of SIX skilled workers* in excess of the first three, in that Class.

CLASS D :—ONE APPRENTICE to the first ONE, TWO OR THREE skilled workers* in that Class of the Trade and thereafter, ONE additional apprentice for each complete group of SIX skilled workers* in excess of the first three, in that Class.

PROVIDED THAT : the number of skilled workers* to be taken into calculation for the purpose of these Rules shall be the average weekly number of such workers (as defined hereunder) employed by the employer during a period of 52 weeks ending on the date on which the apprentice concerned is taken into employment.

* Skilled Workers :—Workers employed on one or more of the operations specified in Part I of the Schedule to the Apprenticeship Committee for the Furniture Trade (Dublin) Confirmation of Rules Order, 1938 ; (Statutory Rules and Orders, 1938, No. 168), who have had, in the case of Male Workers, not less than six years' employment in the Trade, and, in the case of Female Workers, not less than four years' employment in the Trade.

Note :—The above-named Classes A, B, C and D of the Trade are defined in the Apprenticeship Classification Rules as set out in Part I of the Schedule to the Apprenticeship Committee for the Furniture Trade (Dublin) Confirmation of Rules Order, 1938 (Statutory Rules and Orders, 1938, No. 168).