Factory and Workshop Act, 1901.

  • United Kingdom
Date:
1901
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Credit: Factory and Workshop Act, 1901. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    fit, cause the workshop or part to be limewaslied, cleansed, or purified, and may recover in a summary manner the expenses incurred by them in so doing from the person in default. (5.) This section shall not apply to any workshop or workplace to which the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, applies. 3. —(1.) A factory shall for the purposes of this Act, and a workshop shall for the purposes of the law relating to public health, be deemed to be so overcrowded as to be dangerous or injurious to the health of the persons employed therein, if the number of cubic feet of space in any room therein bears to the number of persons employed at one time in the room a proportion less than two hundred and fifty, or, during any period of overtime, four hundred, cubic feet of space to every person. (2.) Provided that the Secretary of State may, by Special Order, modify this proportion for any period during which artificial light other than electric light is employed for illuminating purposes, and may, by like order, as regards any particular manufacturing process or handicraft, substitute for the said figures of two hundred and fifty and four hundred respectively any higher figures, and thereupon this section shall have effect as modified by the order. (B.) Where a workshop or workplace, not being a domestic work- shop, is occupied by day as a workshop and by night as a sleeping apartment, the Secretary of State may by Special Order modify the proportion of cubic feet of space prescribed by this section, and substitute therefor any higher figures, and thereupon this section shall have effect as modified by the order. (4.) There shall be affixed in every factory and workshop a notice specifying the number of persons who may be employed in each room of the factory or workshop by virtue of this section. 4. —(1.) If the Secretary of State is satisfied that the pro- visions of this Act, or of the law relating to public health in so far as it affects factories, workshops, and workplaces, have not been carried out by any district council, he may, by order, authorise an inspector to take, during such period as may be mentioned in the order, such steps as appear necessary or proper for enforcing those provisions. (2.) An inspector authorised in pursuance of this section shall, for the purpose of his duties thereunder, have the same powers with respect to workshops and workplaces as he has with respect 3 A.D.1901. 54 & 55 Viet, c. 76. Over- crowding of factory or workshop. Power of Secretary of State to act in default of local authority.
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