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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    factory or workshop, and the owner shall be substituted for the occupier (e), and he shall register the report referred to in this section. For prohibition of the use of a dangerous boiler, see s. 17, post. (a) Steam Boiler.—This is not defined in the Act. In view of the words “used for generating steam,” only boilers so used are affected by the section. - Note.—The Regulations for Locomotives, p. 563, and Buildings, p. 454, require fencing for gauge glasses. (b) Preseribed Form.—Official Form No. 55. (c) Penalty.—See s. 135, post; but note that in the case of tenement factories the provisions of sub-s. (6) of this section, infra, apply instead of s. 87. (d) Locomotive.—In Murphy v. Wilson (1883), 48 J. P. 24; 52 L. J. Q. B. 524; 48 L. T. 788, it was held that a steam crane fixed on a trolley, and propelled by steam on rails when it was necessary to move it, is not a “‘ locomotive engine ’’ within the meaning of the Employers’ Liability Act, 1880, s. 1 (5). See also Regulations for the use of Locomotives, p. 559. (e) Owner Substituted for Occupier.—These words are pre- sumably intended to apply only in the case of tenement factories. 12. Regulations as to self-acting machines.|—(1) In a factory erected on or after the first day of January one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six, the traversing carriage of any self-acting machine must not be allowed (a) to run out within a distance of eighteen inches from any fixed structure not being part of the machine, if the space over which it runs out is a space over which any person is liable to pass, whether in the course of his employment or otherwise. Provided that nothing in this sub-section shall prevent any portion of the traversing carriage of any self-acting cotton spinning or woollen spinning machine being allowed to run out within a distance of twelve inches from any part of the head stock of another self-acting cotton spinning or woollen spinning machine. (2) A personemployed in a factory must not be allowed (a) to be in the space between the fixed and the traversing parts of a self-acting machine unless the machine is stopped with the traversing part on the outward run, but for the purpose of this provision the space in front of a self-acting machine shall not be included in the space aforesaid. (3) A woman, young person or child must not be
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