Redgrave's Factories Acts / by Alexander Redgrave.

  • United Kingdom
Date:
1931
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Credit: Redgrave's Factories Acts / by Alexander Redgrave. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    shall fie deemed to be a em liable to be dealt with summarily under the law relating to public health (a). This section does not apply to men’s workshops (s. 157, posi, p. 231), nor to domestic factories or workshops (s. 111, post, p. 148). Special provision for the drainage of floors in laundries is made by 3. 3 (c) of the Act of 1907, post, p. 258. (a) Penalty.—See s. 135, post, p. 200, and note (a) to s. 2; ante, p. 16. 9. Sanitary convemences in factories and workshops.|— (1) Every factory and workshop must be provided with sufficient and suitable accommodation (a) in the way of sanitary conveniences, regard being had to the number of persons employed in, or in attendance at, the factory or workshop, and also where persons of both sexes are, or are intended to be, employed or in attendance, with proper separate accommodation for persons of each sex. (2) The Secretary of State shall, by Special Order (6), determine what is sufficient and suitable accommodation within the meaning of this section. (3) A factory or workshop in which there is a contra- vention of this section shall be deemed not to be kept in conformity with this Act (c). (4) This section does not apply to the administrative county of London (d), or to any place where section twenty- two of the Public Health Acts Amendment Act, 1890, is in force (e). | This section does not apply to men’s workshops (s. 157, post, p. 231). It should be observed that this section, like s. 6, supra, is directly enforceable (except in the cases excepted by sub-s. (4) ) by the inspector in workshops as well as in factories, although a sanitary provision. (a) Sufficient and suitable accommodation.—By sub-s. (2) the Secretary of State is the sole judge of what accommodation is to be deemed sufficient and suitable; the justices have no jurisdiction to inquire into the question. See Tracey v. Pretty, [1901] 1 Q. B. 444; 70 L. J. Q. B. 234. * (b) Special Order.—By OrpER DATED FrBruary 4TH, 1903, the Secretary of State has determined that the accommodation in the way of sanitary conveniences provided in a factory or work- shop shall be deemed to be sufficient and suitable within the meaning of this section if the following conditions are complied with, and not otherwise : 1. In factories or workshops where females are employed or
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