(1) This Act shall not apply to -

(a) employment of an employee who is normally expected to work for the same employer for less than eighteen hours in a week,

(b) employment by an employer of an employee who is the father, mother, grandfather, grandmother, stepfather, stepmother, son, daughter, grandson, granddaughter, stepson, stepdaughter, brother, sister, halfbrother or halfsister of the employer and who is a member of the employer's household and whose place of employment is a private dwellinghouse or a farm in or on which both the employee and the employer reside,

(c) [deleted]

(d) employment as a member of the Permanent Defence Forces (other than a temporary member of the Army Nursing Service),

(e) employment as a member of the Garda Síochána, and

(f) employment under an employment agreement pursuant to Part II or Part IV of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894.

(2) The Minister may by order declare that any provision of this Act shall not apply to a class or classes of employment specified in the order and from the commencement of the order this Act shall not apply to that class or those classes.