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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    more than forty persons are employed (a) and every work- shop of which the construction was not commenced before the first day of January one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six and in which more than forty persons are employed (a) must be furnished with a certificate from the district council of the district in which the factory or workshop is situate that the factory or workshop is pro- vided with such means of escape in case of fire for the persons employed therein as can reasonably be required under the circumstances of each case, and if the factory or workshop is not so furnished it shall be deemed not to be kept in conformity with this Act (6); and it shall be the duty of the council to examine every such factory and workshop, and, on being satisfied that the factory or work- shop is so provided, to give such a certificate as aforesaid. The certificate must specify in detail the means of escape so provided. (2) With respect to all factories and workshops to which the foregoing provisions of this section do not. apply (c) and in which more than forty persons are employed, it shall be the duty. of the district council of every district from time to time to ascertain whether all such factories and workshops within their district are provided with such means of escape as aforesaid and, in the case of any factory or workshop which is not so provided, to serve on the owner (d) of the factory or workshop a notice (e) in writing specifying the measures necessary for providing such means of escape as aforesaid and requiring him (f ) to carry them out before a specified date, and thereupon the owner shall, notwithstanding any agreement with the occupier, have power to take such steps as are necessary for complying with the requirements ; and, unless the requirements are complied with, the owner shall be lable to a fine (g) not exceeding one pound for every day that the non-compliance continues. (3) In case of a difference of opinion between the owner of the factory or workshop and the council under the last foregoing sub-section, the difference shall, on the applica- tion of either party, to be made within one month after the time when the difference arises, be referred to arbitration, and thereupon the provisions of the First Schedule to this Act (h) shall have effect, and the award (¢) on the arbitration
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