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17 1969

AGRICULTURAL WORKERS (HOLIDAYS AND WAGES) ACT, 1969

PART I

Preliminary and General

Short title, construction, collective citation and commencement. (Part II).

1. —(1) This Act may be cited as the Agricultural Workers (Holidays and Wages) Act, 1969.

(2) This Act in so far as it amends and extends the Agricultural Wages Acts, 1936 and 1945, shall be construed as one therewith and may be cited together therewith as the Agricultural Wages Acts, 1936 to 1969.

(3) This Act in so far as it amends and extends the Agricultural Workers (Holidays) Acts, 1950 to 1961, shall, subject to section 4 of this Act, be construed as one therewith and may be cited together therewith as the Agricultural Workers Holidays Acts, 1950 to 1969.

(4) Part II of this Act shall come into operation on such day as the Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries may by order appoint.

Interpretation.

2. —(1) In this Act—

the Act of 1936” means the Agricultural Wages Act, 1936 ;

the Act of 1950” means the Agricultural Workers (Holidays) Act, 1950 ;

non-working day” means, in relation to an agricultural worker, a day on which the worker does not under his contract of service normally work;

short day” means, in relation to an agricultural worker, a day on which the worker under his contract of service normally works for less than a full day;

week” means any period of seven consecutive days;

working day” means, in relation to an agricultural worker, a day which—

(a) is a week-day, and

(b) is not—

(i) a public holiday,

(ii) a day within which any period of twenty-four consecutive hours of rest required to be allowed to the worker under any other enactment falls,

(iii) a non-working day, or

(iv) a short day.

(2) An agricultural employer shall be deemed, for the purposes of this Act, to allow an agricultural worker employed by him a whole holiday on a particular day if, but only if, he does not permit the worker to do on that day any work for him.

Expenses.

3. —All expenses incurred in carrying this Act into effect shall, to such extent as may be sanctioned by the Minister for Finance, be paid out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas.