A manual of hygiene, public and private, and compendium of sanitary laws : for the information and guidance of public health authorities, officers of health, and sanitarians generally / by Charles A. Cameron.

Date:
1874
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Credit: A manual of hygiene, public and private, and compendium of sanitary laws : for the information and guidance of public health authorities, officers of health, and sanitarians generally / by Charles A. Cameron. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE BAKEHOUSE REGULATION ACT, 1863. 26 & 27 Victoria, Cap. 40- An Act for the Regulation of Bakehouses, a [iZtkJuly, 1863.] Whereas it is expedient to limit the hours of labour of young persons employed in bakehouses, and to make regulations with respect to clean- liness and ventilation in bakehouses : be it enacted by the Queen's most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows : Short title. i. This act may be cited as The Bakehouse Regulation Act, 1863. Interpretation 2. For the purposes of this act the words hereinafter mentioned of terms. shall be construed as follows ; that is to say. Local Authority shall, as respects any place, mean the persons or bodies of persons defined to be the local authority in that place by the one hundred and thirty-fourth section of the act passed in the session hold en in the eighteenth and nineteenth years of the reign of her present Majesty, chapter one hundred and twenty, or by the Nuisances Removal Acts hereinafter men- tioned ; that is to say, as to England, by the act passed in the session holden in the eighteenth and nineteenth years of the reign of her present Majesty, chapter one hundred and twenty-one, as amended by the act passed in the session holden in the twenty- third and twenty-fourth years of the reign of her present Majesty, chapter seventy-seven ; as to Scotland, by the act passed in the session holden in the nineteenth and twentieth years of the reign of her present Majesty, chapter one hundred and three ; and as to Ireland, by the acts passed, the one in the session holden in the eleventh and twelfth years of the reign of her present Majesty, chapter one hundred and twenty-three, and the other in the ses- sion holden in the twelfth and thirteenth years of the reign of her present Majesty, chapter one hundred and eleven : Bakehouse shall mean any place in which are baked bread, biscuits, or confectionary, from the baking or selling of which a profit is derived : Employed, as applied to any person, shall include any person working in a bakehouse, whether he receives wages or not: Occupier shall include any person in possession : The Court shall include any justice or justices, sheriff or sheriff substitute, magistrate or magistrates, to whom jurisdiction is given by this act. . timltation - 3- No person under the age of eighteen years shall be employed m hours of luboTir any bakehouse between the hours of nine of the clock at night and five of persons under of ^^e clock in the morning. 18 years of Rge. jj- ^^^^ person is employed in contravention of this section, the occupier of the bakehouse in which he is employed shall incur the foUowmg penalties in respect of each person so employed ; that is to say, For the first offence, a sum not exceeding two pounds : For a second offence, a sum not exceeding five pounds : For a third and every subsequent offence, a sum not exceeding one a Bakehouses are not affected by the provisions of the Workshop Regulation Act. 1807, 30 & 31 Vict., Cap. 146. They may be considered as dwelbngs, seeing that the workmen usually sleep In them.