Factory and workshop orders.

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Date:
1908
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Credit: Factory and workshop orders. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Factory only during such period of the year as may be specified by the occupier in the notice which an occupier availing him- self of a special exception is required hy section 60 of the said Act to serve on the Inspector and to exhibit in the Factory. So much of the Order of 20th December, 1882, as applies to Hosiery Factories is herebv revoked. Chas. T. Ritchie, One of His Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State. Home Office, Whitehall, 12th May, 1902. (c.) Meal Times. Order, dated December 20, 1882.* Whereas the Factory and Workshop Act, 1878, Section 52,+ contains a special exception to the effect that the provisions of the Act which require that all children, young persons, and women employed in the factory or workshop shall have the times allowed for meals at the same time of the day shall not apply in the cases therein referred to: And whereas it has been proved to my satisfaction that in factories and workshops of the classes mentioned in the Schedule hereunder, it is necessary by reason of the continu- ous nature of the processes, and the special circumstances affecting such classes, to extend thereto the foregoing special exception, and that such extension can be made without injury to the health of the children, young persons, and women affected thereby: Now I, the Right Honourable Sir 'William Ternon Harcourt, one of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State, by this Order made under Part 2 of the said Act, extend such special exception accordingly. This Order shall come into operation on 1st January, 1888, and shall continue in force until revoked. Whitehall, 20th December, 1882. TF. V. Harcourt. * This Order was gazetted December 22, 1882. t 41 & 42 Viet. c. 16 ; now s. 40 (4) of the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901.
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