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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    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. (cY 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, and in the county of Cornwall. Quarries, ORDER, DATED FEBRUARY 24, 1887.* Whereas the Factory and Workshop Act, 1878, section 52,t 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 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 Henry Matthews, 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 the Ist March, 1887, and shall continue in force until revoked. Henry Matthews. Whitehall, 24th February, 1887. Schedule. ann: Non-textile factories wherein is carried on the making of bread or biscuits by means of travelling ovens. ORDER, DATED FEBRUARY 24, 1887.* 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 a child, young person, and woman shall not * This Order was gazetted March 1, 1887. + 41 & 42 Vict., c. 16; now s. 40 (4) of the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901.
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