S.L. 594.13 Art. 13Injury leave. Cap. 318.

An apprentice shall be entitled to one year injury leave on full pay, less the full amount of any injury benefit to which an apprentice may be entitled in terms of the Social Security Act, if he is injured during the actual discharge of his duty and such injury is not due to contributory negligence on his part or to the contravention by him of safety rules laid down by the management.

FIRST SCHEDULE

Article 5 Calling of Diamond Girdling

(a) Use of bruting machine

(b) Cementing of diamonds in dops

(c) Handling of bruting stick

(d) Marking diamonds/Sorting diamonds for girdling

(e) Girdling for rounding of diamonds

(f) Use of louping glass

(g) Assembling bruting machine

(h) Safety precautions Calling of Diamond Polishing

(a) Use of louping glass

(b) Use of polishing wheel

(c) Handling of tangs

(d) Use of dops for top polishing

(e) Use of dops for bottom polishing

(f) Use of dops for table polishing

(g) Polishing of single cut diamonds

(h) Polishing of full cut diamonds

(i) Diamond powder cementing on wheel

(j) Cementing diamonds in dops/fixing

(k) Installing polishing wheel on machine

(l) Safety precautions. Calling of Diamond Sorting and Fixing

(a) Sorting of girdled stones

(b) Fixing stones in diamond holder pots

(c) Setting diamonds on the grain

(d) Administration and preparation of sorted diamonds. Calling in the Discs Freparation Section for the Processing of Diamonds

(a) Use of:

(i) point grinding machine

(ii) scouring machine

(iii) lathe machine

(iv) balance machine

(b) Safety precautions.

SECOND SCHEDULE

Article 8

Year: Wages per week First ......................................... €57.19 Second ..................................... €63.41 Third ........................................ €69.65 Fourth ...................................... €75.87.