(1) Subject to subsection (4), this Act shall not apply to a member of the Garda Síochána or the Defence Forces.

(2) Subject to subsection (4), Part II shall not apply to -

(a) a person engaged in -

(i) sea fishing,

(ii) other work at sea, or

(iii) the activities of a doctor in training,

(b) a person -

(i) who is employed by a relative and is a member of that relative's household or is employed by the person’s civil partner within the meaning of the Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Act 2010, and

(ii) whose place of employment is a private dwelling house or a farm in or on which he or she and the relative or civil partner reside, or

(c) a person the duration of whose working time (saving any minimum period of such time that is stipulated by the employer) is determined by himself or herself, whether or not provision for the making of such determination by that person is made by his or her contract of employment.