No. 292/1936:

APPRENTICESHIP ACT (FURNITURE TRADE) SPECIAL ORDER, 1936.

APPRENTICESHIP ACT (FURNITURE TRADE) SPECIAL ORDER, 1936.

APPRENTICESHIP ACT (FURNITURE TRADE) SPECIAL ORDER, 1936, MADE BY THE MINISTER FOR INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE ON THE 11TH DAY OF SEPTEMBER, 1936, PURSUANT TO SUB-SECTION (1) OF SECTION 2 of THE APPRENTICESHIP ACT, 1931 .

WHEREAS it is enacted by sub-section (1) of Section 2 of the Apprenticeship Act, 1931 , that subject to the provisions of the said section the Minister for Industry and Commerce may by order (in the said Act referred to as a special order) do any of the following things, that is to say:—

(a) declare any particular trade to be a designated trade for the purposes of the said Act either throughout Saorstát Eireann or in any specified part of Saorstát Eireann ; or

(b) revoke or amend any order previously made by him under the said sub-section :

NOW, therefore, the Minister for Industry and Commerce, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sub-section (1) of Section 2 of the Apprenticeship Act, 1931 , and of every and any other power him in this behalf enabling, by this special order declares the particular trade mentioned in the First Schedule to this order to be a designated trade for the purposes of the Apprenticeship Act, 1931 , in the part of Saorstát Eireann specified in the Second Schedule to this order.

The Interpretation Act, 1923 , applies to the interpretation of this order in like manner as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of the Oireachtas.

This order may be cited for all purposes as the Apprenticeship Act (Furniture Trade) Special Order, 1936.

By Order of the Minister for Industry and Commerce. Dated

this 11th day of September, 1936.

(Signed) JOHN LEYDON,

Secretary,

Department of Industry and Commerce.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

THE FURNITURE TRADE—That is to say :—

1. MAKING, ALTERING or REPAIRING of articles, made wholly or mainly of wood, bamboo or cane, which are intended for use as furniture, and the POLISHING, CARVING and OTHER ORNAMENTATION of such articles.

2. UPHOLSTERING of articles which are intended for use as furniture, whether such articles are made of wood or of substances other than wood, and the altering or repairing of the upholstery of such articles.

3. UPHOLSTERING of seats and seating :

for Theatres, Cinemas, Halls and other places of amusement or assembly, and the altering or repairing of the upholstery of such seats and seating.

4. MAKING, altering or repairing of curtains and draperies, loose covers and window furnishings, and the fixing of floor coverings.

5. MAKING, altering or repairing of mattresses, palliasses, cushions, seats filled with hair, fibre, straw, flock, wool, rubber or other substitute for hair.

Including : the operation of teasing hair.

6. MAKING, altering or repairing of box spring, cane edge, cane laced, interior spring and reversible mattresses, cushions and seats.

Including : any of the operations of sawmilling, machining, turning and veneering of wood, staining, enamelling, painting, japanning, lacquering, spraying, and any other like operation, if such operation be ancillary to and carried on in the same premises as any of the processes mentioned in preceding paragraphs of this Schedule.

But excluding : The making of Spiral Springs.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

The whole of Saorstát Eireann with the exception of the Administrative County of Dublin and the County Borough of Dublin (being the area mentioned in the Second Schedule to the Apprenticeship Act (Furniture Trade) Special Order, 1934).