Industrial Training (Rubber and Plastics Processing Board) Order 1967

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
CitationSI 1967/1062
Year1967

1967 No. 1062

INDUSTRIAL TRAINING

The Industrial Training (Rubber and Plastics Processing Board) Order 1967

17thJuly 1967

27thJuly 1967

9thAugust 1967

The Minister of Labour (hereinafter referred to as "the Minister") after consultation with organisations and associations of organisations appearing to be representative respectively of substantial numbers of employers engaging in the activities hereinafter mentioned and of substantial numbers of persons employed in those activities and by virtue of the powers conferred on him by section 1 of, and paragraphs 1 and 7 of the Schedule to, the Industrial Training Act 1964(a) (hereinafter referred to as "the Act") and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf hereby makes the following Order:—

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Industrial Training (Rubber and Plastics Processing Board) Order 1967 and shall come into operation on 9th August 1967.

(2) The Interpretation Act 1889(b) shall apply to the interpretation of this Order as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.

Establishment of Industrial Training Board

2. An industrial training board to be known as the Rubber and Plastics Processing Industry Training Board (hereinafter referred to as "the Board") is hereby established to exercise in relation to the activities specified in Schedule 1 to this Order as the activities of the rubber and plastics processing industry the functions conferred on industrial training boards by the Act.

Membership and proceedings of the Board

3. The provisions of Schedule 2 to this Order shall have effect in relation to the Board.

R. J. Gunter, Minister of Labour.

17th July 1967.

(a) 1964 c. 16.

(b) 1889 c. 63.

SCHEDULE 1

THE RUBBER AND PLASTICS PROCESSING INDUSTRY

1. Subject to the provisions of this Schedule, the activities of the rubber and plastics processing industry are the following activities in so far as they are carried out in Great Britain:—

(a) the processing of rubber or of plastics material;

(b) the reclamation or processing of used or waste rubber or of such plastics material;

(c) the manufacture of leathercloth or the coating or impregnation of textile fabric with rubber or plastics material;

(d) the manufacture of linoleum or felt base floor covering;

(e) the manufacture or re-covering of printers' rollers;

(f) the manufacture of waterproof felt of a kind used as a damp course, flashing, or as a roof covering or lining;

(g) the manufacture of rubber stamps;

(h) the manufacture of ball-point or fountain pens or propelling pencils;

(i) the manufacture (otherwise than wholly or mainly from wood, metal or any combination of metal and plastics material) of buttons;

(j) any activities, being—

(i) related activities incidental or ancillary to principal activities of the rubber and plastics processing industry; or

(ii) activities undertaken in the administration, control or direction of one or more establishments, being establishments engaged wholly or mainly in principal activities of that industry, in related activities incidental or ancillary thereto, or in the administration, control or direction of one or more other establishments engaged in such principal or related activities;

and carried out, in either case, by the employer engaged in those principal activities or, where that employer is a company, by the company or by an associated company of the company;

(k) any activities of industry or commerce (other than rubber and plastics processing activities) carried out at or from an establishment mainly engaged—

(i) in rubber and plastics processing activities; or

(ii) in rubber and plastics processing activities and in activities described in the Appendix to this Schedule, but to a greater extent in rubber and plastics processing activities than in activities described in that Appendix in relation to any one industry.

2. Notwithstanding anything contained in this Schedule, there shall not be included in the activities of the rubber and plastics processing industry:—

(a) the activities of any establishment engaged—

(i) mainly in activities not being rubber and plastics processing activities or activities described in the Appendix to this Schedule; or

(ii) to a less extent in rubber and plastics processing activities than in activities described in that Appendix in relation to any one industry;

(b) the activities of any establishment engaged wholly or mainly in related activities, being activities—

(i) incidental or ancillary to the activities of one or more establishments (in this sub-paragraph hereafter referred to as "the principal establishment") engaged wholly or mainly in any activities not being principal activities of the rubber and plastics processing industry; and

(ii) carried out by the employer carrying on the principal establishment or, where that employer is a company, by the company or by an associated company of the company;

(c) the activities of any establishment engaged wholly or mainly in the activities following or in any of them, that is to say—

(i) the making or re-making of rope, cord, core for wire ropes, lines, twine, string or similar articles;

(ii) the manufacture of industrialised building components or sections or of prefabricated buildings or sections of buildings, being components, sections or buildings framed in wood;

(iii) the manufacture or repair, wholly or mainly from any combination of metal and plastics material, of any articles not being articles specified in sub-paragraph (e), (g) or (h) of paragraph 1 of this Schedule;

(iv) the manufacture or repair of vehicle bodies, aircraft or hover vehicles;

(v) the manufacture or repair of spectacle frames, ophthalmic lenses or articles embodying a lens or prism;

(vi) the manufacture or repair of primary cells, batteries, electric accumulators, electric cables, electric capacitors or resistors or printed or micro-electronic circuits;

(vii) the manufacture of patterns or models constructed for engineering purposes;

(viii) any metal finishing process;

(ix) any operations carried out at or from a yard, a dry...

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