Factory and workshop orders.

  • Home Office
Date:
1908
Catalogue details

Licence: In copyright

Credit: Factory and workshop orders. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    EMPLOYMENT. (1.) special Exceptions as to Hours and Holidays (a.) Employment between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m. Okder, dated December 2G, 1907.* 1907. Xo. 1009. In pursuance of the powers conferred on me by Section 36 of the Factory and IVorkshop Act, 1901,t as amended by the Factory and Workshop Act, 1907,+ I hereby j^rant to the fac- tories and workshops named in the Schedule to this Order, a special exception that the period of emplo3unent for wom'en and young persons, maj, on anj' da,v except Saturday, begin at nine o’clock in the morning and end at nine o’clock at night, subject to the folloAving conditions: — (1) After 8 p.m., in each room in which an^ woman or young person is being emploj'ed, the number of persons emploj'ed therein shall not exceed the proportion of one person for everj- 400 cubic feet of space. (2) The period of employment for a child in a morning set shall begin at nine o’clock in the morning, and for a child in the afternoon set shall end at eight o’clock in the CA’ening. (3) In the case of factories in the Fountj’ of London in which letterpress bookbinding is carried on the special ex- ception shall not apply except between the first da_v of September and the last day of February following. The Order of the 24th IuIa', 1906, granting the said special exception, is hereby revoked. This Order shall come into force on the first day of Januarv, 1908. IT. J. Gladstone, One of His !Majest.y's Priiicipal Secretaries of State. Home Office, Whitehall 26th December, 1907. J [Schedule. I 7 Edw. 7, c. 39.
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