S.I. No. 112/1987:

EMPLOYMENT EQUALITY (EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN) ORDER, 1986.

EMPLOYMENT EQUALITY (EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN) ORDER, 1986.

I, BERTIE AHERN, Minister for Labour, in exercise of the power conferred on me by section 14 of the Employment Equality Act, 1977 (No. 16 of 1977), hereby make the following Order, with respect to which, pursuant to that section, a draft has been laid before each House of the Oireachtas and a resolution approving of the draft has been passed by each such House:

1. This Order may be cited as the Employment Equality (Employment of Women) Order, 1986, and shall come into operation on the 4th day of May, 1987.

2. In this Order "the Act of 1936" means the Conditions of Employment Act, 1936 (No. 2 of 1936).

3. Section 38 of the Act of 1936 is hereby amended by the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (1):

"(1) Save as otherwise provided by this Act, it shall not be lawful for any employer who employs any adult worker to do industrial work in an industrial undertaking on day work to permit such adult worker to continue work after any of the following limits (in this Act referred to as time limits for day work), that is to say:

(a) the hour of 8 p.m. on any ordinary working day,

(b) the hour of 1 p.m. on any short day,

(c) the time in any ordinary working day when such adult worker has completed nine hours work on that day,

(d) the time in any week when such adult worker has completed forty-eight hours work in that week.".

4. Section 46 of the Act of 1936 is hereby repealed.

5. Subsection (2) of section 49 of the Act of 1936 is hereby amended by the deletion of "male", and that subsection, as so amended, is set out in the Table to this paragraph.

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(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in the next preceding subsection of this section, an employer may employ an adult worker to do, on any Sunday, for a period not exceeding three hours or for two or more periods not exceeding in the aggregate three hours, any industrial work to which the prohibition affected by the said next preceding subsection applies.

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 14th day of April, 1987.

BERTIE AHERN,

Minister for Labour.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

The purpose of this Order is to remove the prohibition on the employment of women on industrial work at night and on Sundays by amending the Conditions of Employment Act, 1936 .