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Version status: In force | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes
Published date: 7 May 1997

Organisation of Working Time Act, 1997 (No. 20)

Consolidation Status: Updated to reflect all known changes
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Introductory Text
Acts Referred to
Part I Preliminary and General (ss. 1-10)
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 1. Short title and commencement.
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 2. Interpretation.
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 3. Non-application of Act or provisions thereof.
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 4. Exemptions.
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 5. Employer relieved from complying with certain provisions in certain circumstances.
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 6. Compensatory rest periods.
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 7. Regulations and orders.
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 8. Inspectors.
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 9. Repeals.
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 10. Expenses.
Part II Minimum Rest Periods and other matters relating to Working Time (ss. 11-18)
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 11. Daily rest period.
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 12. Rests and intervals at work.
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 13. Weekly rest periods.
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 14. Sunday work: supplemental provisions.
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 15. Weekly working hours.
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 16. Nightly working hours.
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 17. Provision of information in relation to working time.
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 18. Prohibition of zero hours working practices in certain circumstances and minimum payment in certain circumstances.
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 18A. Banded hours.
Part III Holidays (ss. 19-23)
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 19. Entitlement to annual leave.
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 20. Times and pay for annual leave.
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 21. Entitlement in respect of public holidays.
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 22. Public holidays: supplemental provisions.
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 23. Compensation on cesser of employment.
Part IV Miscellaneous (ss. 24-41)
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 24. Approval of collective agreements by Labour Court.
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 25. Records.
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 26. Refusal by an employee to cooperate with employer in breaching Act.
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 27. Complaints to rights commissioner.
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 28. Decision of Labour Court on appeal from decision referred to in section 27(3).
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 29. Enforcement of determinations of Labour Court.
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 30. Evidence of failure to attend before or give evidence or produce documents to Labour Court.
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 31. References to rights commissioner by Minister.
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 32. Provisions in relation to outworkers who are employees.
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 33. Prohibition on double employment.
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 34. Penalties, proceedings, etc.
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 35. Codes of practice.
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 36. Provisions in relation to Protection of Young Persons (Employment) Act, 1996.
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 37. Voidance of certain provisions.
Repealed
 38. Amendment of section 51 of Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act, 1989.
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⚠ 39. Powers of rights commissioner, Employment Appeals Tribunal or Labour Court in certain cases.
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 40. Alternative means of claiming relief in cases of non-compliance with Part III.
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 41. Increase of penalties under certain enactments.
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 First Schedule Transitional Provisions in relation to Annual Leave Entitlements
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 Second Schedule Public Holidays
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 Third Schedule Entitlement under section 21 in respect of Public Holidays: Exceptions
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 Fourth Schedule Enactments Repealed
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 Fifth Schedule Transitional Provisions in relation to section 15(1)
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 Sixth Schedule Text of Council Directive
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