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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    for the dangerous parts of the machinery and every part of the mill gearing. (g) Machinery under repair, ete.—This paragraph means that when the machinery is under repair, etc., the whole of the fencing need not be maintained in an efficient state, but nevertheless the general obligation under (c) continues (Scott v. Brookfield Linen Co., Lamited, [1910] 2 I. R. 509). (hk) Penalty.—See s. 135, post, p. 200. The occupier is the person liable; but see s. 142, post, p. 208, which makes the owner or hirer of a machine liable in certain cases. Also, in the case of tene- ment factories, by s. 87, post, p. 112, the liability is transferred to the owner, except as regards machinery supplied by the occupier. See also s. 136, p. 201, for fine consequent upon death or injury in consequence of neglect. 11. Steam boilers.|—(1) Every steam boiler (a) used for generating steam in a factory or workshop or in any place to which any of the provisions of this Act apply must, whether separate or one of a range— (a) have attached to it a proper safety valve and a proper steam gauge and water gauge to show the pressure of steam and the height of water in the boiler ; and y (b) be examined thoroughly by a competent person at least once in every fourteen months. (2) Every such boiler, safety valve, steam gauge and water gauge must be maintained in proper condition. (3) A report of the result of every such examination in the prescribed form (b), containing the prescribed particulars, shall within fourteen days be entered into or attached to the general register of the factory or workshop, and the report shall be signed by the person making the examina- tion, and, if that person is an inspector of a boiler-inspecting company or association, by the chief engineer of the company or association. (4) 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). (5) This section shall not apply to the boiler of any locomotive (d) which belongs to and is used by any railway company, or to any boiler belonging to or exclusively used in the service of his Majesty. (6) For the purposes of this section, the whole of a tenement factory or workshop shall be deemed to be one
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