Wages Regulation (Cutlery) Order 1967
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1967/1215 |
| Year | 1967 |
1967 No. 1215
WAGES COUNCILS
The Wages Regulation (Cutlery) Order 19679thAugust 1967
30thAugust 1967
Whereas the Minister of Labour (hereafter in this Order referred to as "the Minister") has received from the Cutlery Wages Council (Great Britain) the wages regulation proposals set out in the Schedule hereto;
Now, therefore, the Minister by virtue of the powers conferred on him by section 11 of the Wages Councils Act 1959(a), and section 31 of the Prices and Incomes Act 1966(b), and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:—
1. This Order may be cited as the Wages Regulation (Cutlery) Order 1967.
2.—(1) In this Order the expression "the specified date" means the 30th August 1967, provided that where, as respects any worker who is paid wages at intervals not exceeding seven days, that date does not correspond with the beginning of the period for which the wages are paid, the expression "the specified date" means, as respects that worker, the beginning of the next such period following that date.
(2) The Interpretation Act 1889(c) shall apply to the interpretation of this Order as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament and as if this Order and the Order hereby revoked were Acts of Parliament.
3. The wages regulation proposals set out in the Schedule hereto shall have effect as from the specified date and as from that date the Wages Regulation (Cutlery) (No. 2) Order 1965(d) shall cease to have effect.
Signed by order of the Minister of Labour.
D. C. Barnes, Secretary, Ministry of Labour.
9th August 1967.
SCHEDULE
The following minimum remuneration shall be substituted for the statutory minimum remuneration fixed by the Wages Regulation (Cutlery) (No. 2) Order 1965 (Order C.T. (77)).
(a) 1959 c. 69.
(b)1966c. 33.
(c) 1889 c. 63.
(d) S.I. 1965/2035 (1965 III, p. 6010).
STATUTORY MINIMUM REMUNERATION
PART I
GENERAL MINIMUM TIME RATES AND PIECE WORK BASIS TIME RATES
Column 1 Column 2
General Piece
minimum work basis
time rate time rate
per hour per hour
s. d. s. d
I.— MALE WORKERS OF 21 YEARS OF AGE OR OVER
A.— WORKERS IN THE TABLE, BUTCHER, PALETTE
SHOE AND TOOL KNIFE, AND FORK AND STEEL
AND KNIFE SHARPENER SECTION OFTHE TRADE
1. HAND FORGERS OF BLADES OR FORKS: (i.e
workers who, without supervision, forge
entirely by hand from the bar or rod any
kind of blade or fork used in this section
of the trade and also mark and harden and
temper the blade or fork where necessary) 5 5 6 2½
2. FORGERS OF TABLE OR BUTCHER STEELS 5 4 6 1½
3. ANNEALERS OF TABLE OR BUTCHER STEELS 5 2 5 11
4. STRIPPERS OF TABLE OR BUTCHER STEELS 5 2 5 11
5. SCOURERS OF TABLE OR BUTCHER STEELS 5 2 5 11
6. GOFFERS (MACHINE FORGERS, ROLLERS, STAMPERS)
OF BLADES OR FORKS employed in
(a) Mooding from the bar 5 5 6 2½
(b) Plating 5 5 6 2½
(c) Bolstering moods or blanks or off the
bar 5 5 6 2½
(d) Drawing 5 5 6 2½
(e) Cutting out or blanking 5 4 6 1½
(f) Rolling 5 4 6 1½
(g) Sateing 5 5 6 2½
(h) Pronging forks 5 4 6 1½
(i) Punching guard hole in forks 5 4 6 1½
(j) Trapping forks 5 2 5 11
(k) Tanging 5 2 5 11
(l) Stamping 5 2 5 11
7. SMITHERS, HARDENERS AND TEMPERERS OF BLADES
(a) who smith and/or shape by hand, and
who also mark and harden and temper
the blades where necessary 5 4 6 1½
(b) who by hand harden and temper
throughout 5 4 6 1½
(c) who by hand harden only or temper
only, and who use a hand hammer in
connection therewith 5 2 5 11
(d) who by hand harden only or temper
only, and who do not use a hand hammer
in connection therewith 5 2 5 11
(e) who harden by machine and who in
connection therewith straighten the
blades by hand 5 2 5 11
(f) who harden by machine and who do not
straighten the blades by hand in
connection therewith 5 1 5 10
(g) who flatten or straighten blades by
drop stamp or power hammer 5 2 5 11
8. HAND GRINDERS OF BLADES:
Grade I (i.e. hand grinders (other than
hand grinders of grade II) employed on
grinding from the rough blank, or
whittening, or glazing, or finishing any
kind of blade used in this section of
the trade) 5 4 6 1½
Grade II (i.e. hand grinders employed only
in tumbling, or in neck grinding and
glazing, or in blade buffing, or
employed only in glazing palette blades,
or putty blades, or scrapers) 5 2 5 11
9. HAND GRINDERS AND/OR HAND GLAZIERS OF FORKS 5 4 6 1½
10. FORK GUARDERS:
Grade I (i.e. workers who perform any of
the following operations, viz.: forging
guards or springs from bar steel,
hardening or tempering springs, or boring
holes in forks or guards) 5 4 6 1½
Grade II (i.e. workers who perform any of
the following operations, viz.: grinding
or glazing guards, fitting springs or
guards into guard holes, riveting guards
to forks, filing or grinding rivet heads
flush with shank, or fine glazing shanks) 5 2 5 11
11. HAND OR MACHINE GRINDERS OF TABLE OR
BUTCHER STEELS 5 4 6 1½
12. MACHINE GRINDERS OF BLADES:
Grade I (i.e. foremen or charge-hands in
the machine grinding branch) 5 4 6 1½
Grade II (i.e. workers (other than foremen
or charge-hands) who set up and work a
grinding machine) 5 2 5 11
Grade III (i.e. workers who work a grind-
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