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This version of this statute is extracted from the UK Statute Law Database (SLD). It is not necessarily in the form in which it was originally enacted but is a revised version, which means that any subsequent amendments to the text and other effects are incorporated with annotations.
An Act to carry out certain draft International Conventions relating to the employment of women during the night and to hours of work in automatic sheet-glass works, to amend the law relating to the hours of employment of women holding responsible positions of management who are not ordinarily engaged in manual work, and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.
[14th July 1936]
F2Whereas at its Eighteenth Session held at Geneva in June, nineteen hundred and thirty-four, the General Conference of the International Labour Organisation adopted two draft Conventions entitled “the Night Work (Women) Convention (Revised) 1934,” and “the Sheet-Glass Works Convention, 1934,” and containing (together with other provisions) the provisions set out in Part I and Part II of the Schedule to this Act respectively;
And whereas the first of the said draft Conventions is intended to replace the Convention containing the provisions set out in Part III of the Schedule to theM1 Employment of Women, Young Persons and Children Act 1920;
And whereas it is expedient that for the purposes of, and in connection with, the ratification of the said draft Conventions, the provisions contained in this Act should have effect:
F1Act repealed with the exception of s. 5 (1.1.1996) by S.I. 1995/3234, reg. 2(1), Sch. 1 Pt. I and Act repealed (1.4.1996) by S.R. 1996/21, art. 2(1), Sch. 1
F2Act with the exception of s. 5 repealed (1.1.1996) by S.I. 1995/3234, reg. 2(1), Sch. 1 Pt. I and Act repealed (1.4.1996) by S.R. 1996/21, art. 2(1), Sch. 1
C1Act (except s. 5) amended by S. I. 1988/1222, regs. 3, 4
C2Power to amend Act (N. I. ) conferred by Factories Act (Northern Ireland) 1965 (c. 20), s. 115(1)(c)
C3Act (except s. 5) amended by S. I. 1990/1380, reg. 3
C4Act: (except s. 5) saved by virtue of Health and Safety at Work etc. Act. 1974 (c. 37, SIF 43:3), s. 53, Sch. 1 and Tay Road Bridge Order Confirmation Act 1991 (c. iv), Sch. Pt. VII s. 62
C5Act: (except s. 5) saved by Virtue of Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 (c. 37, SIF 43:3), s. 53, Sch. 1 and Highland Regional Council (Harbours) Order Confirmation Act 1991 (c. xii), s. 61(1)(f)
C6Act modified (7.3.1994) by S.R. 1994/1, regs. 3, 4
M11920 c. 65.
(1)This Act shall apply to Northern Ireland subject to the following modifications:
F1(a). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(b)for the words “the Secretary of State after consulting the Minister of Labour” and the words “the Secretary of State” there shall be substituted the words “the Minister of Labour for Northern Ireland.”
(2). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F2
F1S. 5(1)(a) repealed (5.11.1993) by 1993 c. 50, s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt.XVI.
F2S. 5(2) repealed by Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973 (c. 36), Sch. 6 Pt. I
C1Functions of Minister of Labour for Northern Ireland now exercisable by head of Department of Manpower Services for Northern Ireland: Ministries Act (Northern Ireland) 1946 (c. 11), s. 2, S.R. & O. (N.I.) 1964 No. 205 and S.R. (N.I.) 1973 No. 504, Sch.3
Hours of Employment (Conventions) Act 1936 (repealed 1.4.1996)