Hours of Employment (Conventions) Act 1936

1936 CHAPTER 22

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]

Whereas 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 the [10 & 11 Geo. 5. c. 56.] 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; ,

Be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :—