Redgrave's Factories Acts / by Alexander Redgrave.

  • United Kingdom
Date:
1931
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Redgrave's Factories Acts / by Alexander Redgrave. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    remuneration must be furnished as will enable the worker to check his wages for himself. Part VIII., ““ Administration,” ” deals first with the appointment, powers and duties of Factory Inspectors and Certifying Surgeons (ss. 118—124). It then gives certain powers to local authorities (s. 125), and lays down the procedure for making and publishing the Special Orders by which the Home Secretary can extend or curtail the application of the Act to particular industries (s. 126). By ss. 127—134 it directs occupiers of factories and workshops to notify the inspector of such occupation, to fix up in the works an abstract of the Act and certain other information, and to keep a register of various particulars as to employment, health and accidents, and, when required, to make periodical returns of persons employed by them. Duties are also imposed upon councils and their medical officers. Part IX., “ Legal Proceedings” (ss. 185—148), fixes the punishment for infringements of the Act, and the procedure for enforcing it. : Part X., ‘Supplementary,’ contains a number of miscellaneous provisions, such as definitions, application of the Act to Crown Factories, and to London, Scotland and Ireland, and repeal of former Acts. SUBSEQUENT LEGISLATION. During the twenty-nine years which have elapsed since the Act of 1901 came into operation, sixteen statutes have been passed which affect the law relating to factories and workshops. Their effect is, shortly, as follows : The Employment of Children Act, 1908 (3 Edw. 7, c. 45), prohibits the employment of children in lifting heavy weights, or in any dangerous or unhealthy occu- pation, or, while engaged as “half-timers” under the Factory Act, in any other occupation whatever. The Notice of Accidents Act, 1906 (6 Edw. 7, c. 53), repeals s. 19 of the Act of 1901, and substitutes a more stringent set of provisions as to notice of accidents. In particular, notice may be ordered of certain “ dangerous occurrences,” even though no bodily injury is caused by | them. The Census of Production Act, 1906 (6 Edw. 7, c. 49),
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