Industrial Training (Printing and Paper Industry) Order, 1970

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Citation: IR SI 21/1970
• Year: 1970

S.I. No. 21 of 1970.

INDUSTRIAL TRAINING (PRINTING AND PAPER INDUSTRY) ORDER, 1970.

An Chomhairle Oiliúna, after consultation with organisations and associations appearing to it to be representative of substantial numbers of employers in the activities referred to in this Order and of substantial numbers of persons employed in such activities hereby, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Section 23 of the Industrial Training Act, 1967 (No. 5 of 1967), makes the following order: 1. This Order may be cited as the Industrial Training (Printing and Paper Industry) Order, 1970. 2. the Activities of the printing and paper industry specified in the Schedule to this Order are hereby declared to be designated industrial activities for the purposes of the Industrial Training Act, 1967 (No. 5 of 1967).

SCHEDULE.

1. (1) In this Schedule—

"cinematograph films" includes any record, however made, of a sequence of visual images, which is a record capable of being used as a means of showing that sequence as a moving picture;

"company" includes any body corporate and "subsidiary" has the same meaning as in Section 2 (1) of the Companies Act, 1963 (No. 33 of 1963);

"dealing" means by way of business and in the capacity of principal, agent or broker—

(a) in relation to any product situate in the State, buying or selling such product, or

(b) in relation to any product situate elsewhere, importing it into the State;

"display writing" means glass, poster, sign or ticket writing for display purposes;

"flexible packaging materials" means materials manufactured by a process that involves coating, impregnating or laminating paper;

"local authority" means the council of a county, county or other borough, or of an urban or rural district;

"manufacture" in relation to a product includes any process of printing on that product when undertaken by the manufacturer thereof, and any other process or operation incidental or appertaining to manufacture as so defined;

"news agency" means an undertaking engaged wholly or mainly in the provision for reward of regular reports of news and other current information, but does not include an agency that investigates and reports on the credit worthiness of persons;

"office premises" has the same meaning as in Section 3 (1) of the Office Premises Act, 1958 (No. 3 of 1958);

"paper" means any sheet or continuous web of material (including paper-board, fibreboard and fibre building board) made by the deposition of fibres of any kind from a suspension in a liquid or gas, with or without the addition of any other substance;

"paper products" means any products that consist wholly or mainly of paper (not being fibre building board) or that are manufactured wholly or mainly from paper pulp or used or waste paper;

"photographic news agency" means an undertaking engaged wholly or mainly in the supply of photographs for reproduction in newspapers or other publications specified in paragraph 2 (vi) (b) of this Schedule;

"plastics material" means any material made wholly or mainly by addition, polyaddition, condensation, polycondensation, polymerisation, copolymerisation, esterification or other similar chemical process, or regenerated or modified cellulose, or hardened proteins, or natural resin modified by fusion or esterification;

"principal activities of the printing and paper industry"means activities which, subject to the provision of paragraph 3 of this Schedule, are specified in paragraph 2 other than sub-paragraphs (xxi) and (xxii) thereof, as activities of the printing and paper industry;

"printing and paper activities" means any one or more of the principal activities of the printing and paper industry and the activities included in that industry by virtue of paragraph 2 (xxi) of this Schedule;

"processing of plastics material" means any of the following operations when carried out on or with plastics materials, that is to say, masticating, compounding, mixing, calendering, extruding, moulding, pressing, thermoforming, blowing, casting, dipping, coating, encapsulating, heat sealing, laminating, filament winding, machining, cutting, vulcanising or foaming;

"production" includes any process or operation incidental or appertaining to production;

"publishing" in relation to any publication of a kind referred to in paragraph 2 (vi) of this Schedule means, by way of business and for the purposes of gain, issuing the same for sale or distribution to the public;

"related activities" means any of the following activities, that is to say—

(a) research, development, design or drawing,

(b) buying, selling, letting out on hire, testing, advertising, packing, distribution, delivery, transport or any similar operations,

(c) operations of a kind performed at office premises, studios or laboratories, or at stores, warehouses or similar places,

(d) cleaning, washing, or garaging vehicles or carrying out running repairs or minor adjustments thereto,

(e) training of employees or apprentices;

"selling by retail" in relation to paper means selling it by way of business to a person who buys otherwise than for the purpose of re-sale, use in manufacture or processing.

(2) For the purposes of this Schedule two companies shall be taken to be associated companies if one is a subsidiary of the other, or both are subsidiaries of a third company, and "associated company" shall be construed accordingly.

2. Subject to paragraph 3 of this Schedule, the following activities of industry are the activities referred to in Article 2 of this Order, namely:

(i) printing on paper or other material by any of the processes following—

(a) letterpress printing by direct or offset methods or by flexography,

(b) lithographic printing by direct or offset methods,

(c) photogravure printing,

(d) electrostatic printing,

(e) collotype printing,

(f) screen printing,

(g) die-stamping or embossing,

(h) thermographic printing,

(i) ruling, or

(j) cutting, creasing or scoring by letterpress process;

(ii) the operations or processes following—

(a) composing or making up either from type, metal or blocks or from positive or negative images on paper or film or on other opaque, translucent or transparent material,

(b) producing tapes or spools of any kind as part of a composing process,

(c) for the purpose of reproducing an image, preparing, engraving, etching, cutting or moulding cylinder liners, cylinders, plates or rollers,

(d) making printers' blocks,

(e) electro-typing, stereo-typing, type-setting or type-casting,

(f) cutting stencils or preparing screens for the purpose of screen printing,

(g) for the purpose of printing music, engraving or punching plates or drawing black and white originals for photographic reproduction,

(h) any chemical, electrical, electronic, photographic, retouching, inspection, quality control or finishing process connected with any operation or process above-mentioned in...