Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Factory and workshop orders : 1929 edition / [Home Office]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Factory and workshop orders : 1929 edition / [Home Office]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
![or departments of work carried on in the same factory or workshop shall, for all or any of the purposes of the Factory Acts, be treated as if they were different factories or workshops : I, the Right Honourable Sir Matthew White Ridley, Baronet, one of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State, by this Order made in pursuance of the above-mentioned sections, direct, with respect to the factories and workshops named in the schedule to this Order, that a part of any such factory or workshop which is a warehouse not used for any manufacturing process or handicraft, and in which persons are solely employed in polishing, cleaning, wrapping or packing up goods, may, so far as regards the PERIOD OF EMPLOYMENT OF CHILDREN, YOUNG PERSONS AND WoMEN, be treated as if it were a different factory or workshop, subject to the following conditions :— (1) (a) Such part must consist of a separate room or separate rooms ; ; (b) such part must be under separate and distinct manage- ment ; (c) no person who is employed in such part may be em- ployed in any other part of the factory or workshop. (2) Such part shall have a separate notice (Special Exception Notice) under section 66 of the Factory and Workshop Act, 1878,* affixed therein; and a copy of every such notice must be sent to the Inspector. (3) Such part shall have a separate notice (Period of Employ- ment Notice) under section 19 of the Factory and Workshop Act, 1878,7 affixed therein. (4) The occupier of the factory or workshop must obtain from the Inspector, and must hold, a certificate that in his opinion, having regard to all the circumstances of the case, the separation of such part from the rest of the factory or workshop, and the arrangements for carrying out the above conditions, are satisfactory, and such certificate shall cease to be of any effect on the expiration of one week after the Inspector shall have served on the occupier notice in writing that the separation and arrangements aforesaid are no longer satisfactory. This Order shall come into effect on the Ist day of February, 1899. M. W. Ridley. Home Office, Whitehall, 19th January, 1899. Schedule. Factories or Workshops in which the manufacture of edge tools is carried on. * Now see s. 60 of the Factory and Workshop Act, 190].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b32173453_0342.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
