Factory and workshop orders : 1929 edition / [Home Office].

Date:
1929
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Credit: Factory and workshop orders : 1929 edition / [Home Office]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    This Order shall come into operation on Ist January, 1883, and shall continue in force until revoked. W. V. Harcourt. Whitehall, 20th December, 1882. a Schedule. (a) Textile factories wherein female young persons or women employed in a distinct department in which there is no machinery, commence work at a later hour than the men and other young persons, subject to the condition that all in the same department shall have their meals at the same time. (b) Non-textile factories and workshops wherein is carried on the making of wearing apparel (c) Non-textile factories and workshops wherein there are two or more departments or sets of young persons, subject to the condition that all in the same department or set shall have their meals at the same time (d) The following non-textile factories and workshops, viz. :— Dressing floors, Tin streams, China clay pits, af fis in the county of Clowalt. Quarries. | ORDER, DATED DECEMBER 20, 1882.* Whereas the Factory and Workshop Act, 1878, section 52,7 contains a special exception to the effect that the provisions of the Act which require that a child, young person, and woman shall not during any part of the time allowed for meals in a factory or work- shop be allowed to remain in a room in which the manufacturing process or handicraft is being carried on 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 continuous 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 Vernon Harcourt, one of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State, by this Order, made under Part 2 of the said Act, extend such exception accordingly. This Order shall come into operation on Ist January, 18838, and shall continue in force until revoked. W. V. Harcourt.. Whitehall, 20th December, 1882. * This Order was gazetted December 22, 1882. +41 & 42 Vict., c. 16; now s. 40 (4) of the Factory and Workshop Act. 1901.
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