TABLE showing how Sections of Acts consolidated have been dealt with--continued.

5 Edw. No. 1975. An Act to consolidate the Law
relating to the Supervision and Regulation of Factories
Work-rooms and Shops and for other purposes.

BE

[6th October, 1905.]

E it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of Victoria in this present Parliament assembled and by the authority of the same as follows (that is to say):-

commencement.

1. This Act may be cited as the Factories and Shops Act 1905, Short title and and shall come into operation on the tenth day of October One thousand nine hundred and five.

2. This Act is divided into Parts and Divisions as follows:

Division.

:

Remarks.

PART IX.-Special Boards.

Division 1.-Object of Special Boards.
Division 2.-Mode of appointing members
and term of office.

Division 3.-Appointment of Chairman.
Division 4.-Powers of Special Board.
Division 5.-Apprentices and Improvers
and Juvenile Workers.

Division 6.-When Piece-work Rates may
be Fixed by Employer.

Division 7.-Old Slow and Infirm Wor-
kers.

Division 8.-Duration Publication and
Application of Determinations.
Division 9.-Provisions regarding Furni-
ture Bread and Pastrycooks Boards.
Division 10.-Powers of Boards may be
extended.

Division 11.-Suspension of Determina-
tion.

Division 12.-General Provisions.

Division 13.-Proceedings in Courts of

3. (1) The Acts mentioned in the First Schedule to this Act to Repeal. the extent to which the same are thereby expressed to be repealed are hereby repealed.

(2) Such repeal shall not affect any rule regulation appointment by-law order registration application declaration determination or award made, or any petition presented, or any notice notification

First Schedule.
No. 1091 s. 2.

Application of
Act.

No. 1058 s. 32.

permit or certificate given, or any licence granted, or any fee fixed, or any resolution passed, or any information laid, or action or proceeding pending, or any arbitration entered into, or any order or direction in force under the said Acts or any of them before the commencement of this Act.

4. This Act shall unless and until other provision is made by and in accordance with law apply to the persons things and circumNo. 1749 s. 2 (10). Stances appointed or created by and existing or continuing under the several Acts hereby repealed respectively. All such persons things and circumstances shall continue unless and until other provisions are made by and in accordance with law to have under this Act the same status operation and effect as they respectively had under the said repealed Acts immediately before the commencement of this Act, and shall be deemed to have been made under this Act, and the several corresponding provisions of this Act shall respectively apply and be construed to apply to such persons things and circumstances respectively.

PART I-INTRODUCTORY.

(1) Interpretation.

5. In the construction and for the purposes of this Act the following terms shall if not inconsistent with the context or subject-matter have the respective meanings hereby assigned to them (that is to say):

"Apprentice" means any person under twenty-one years of age bound by indentures of apprenticeship:

"Board" means the Board of Public Health:

Certifying medical practitioner " means any legally qualified medical practitioner who is authorized by the Minister to grant certificates under the authority of this Act:

"Chief Inspector" means the Chief Inspector of factories workrooms and shops:

"Child" means a person under the age of thirteen years:

Council" means the council of any city town borough or shire: "Factory or work-room means

any office building or place in which four or more persons other than a Chinese or in which any one or more Chinese persons are or is employed directly or indirectly in working in any handicraft or in preparing or manufacturing articles for trade or sale, and shall include any clay-pit or quarry worked or used in connexion with and occupied by the occupier of any pottery or brickyard; or

any office building or place in which one or more persons
are employed and in which steam water gas oil or
electric power is used in preparing or manufacturing
articles for trade or sale or in which furniture is pre-
pared or manufactured or in which any bread or pastry
is made or baked for sale.

No. 1445 s. 3.

No. 1654 3. 12.

Where the operations of any manufacturer are carried on No. 1445 s. 3.
for safety or convenience in several adjacent buildings
grouped together in one enclosure these shall be classed
and included as one factory or work-room for the pur-
pose of registration and for the computation of regis-
tration fees.

A person shall be deemed and taken to be employed .
whether he is or is not working on his own account
or behalf or for hire or reward either directly or
indirectly.

"Furniture" means furniture of which wood forms a part and “Furniture." such as is usually made by cabinet-makers chair and couch No. 1476 s. 3. makers upholsterers wood carvers or wood turners :

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"handicraft"

"Handicraft" includes any work whatsoever done in any Meaning of laundry or dye-works and whether or not done in preparing and or manufacturing articles for trade or sale:

employed." No. 1445 s. 3 (2).

Laundry" shall not be deemed to include any institution or "Laundry.” place in which the only persons employed are

(a) inmates of any prison reformatory or industrial school or other institution for the time being subject to inspection under any Act other than this Act; or

(b) inmates of an institution conducted in good faith for religious or charitable purposes.

No. 1445 s. 3 (2).

"Improver" means any person (other than an apprentice) who "Improver." does not receive a piece-work price or rate or a wages No. 1654 s. 4. price or rate fixed by any Special Board for persons other

than apprentices or improvers and who is not over twenty-
one years of age or who being over twenty-one years of
age holds a licence from the Minister to be paid as an
improver:

"Inspector" means an inspector of factories work-rooms and "Inspector." shops appointed under the authority of this Act and shall No. 1091 s. 3. include the Chief Inspector:

"Prescribed" means prescribed by any regulations made pur- "Prescribed." suant to this Act; and

No. 1476 s. 3.

"Shop."

s.

Shop" means any building or portion of a building or place place No. 1091 . 3. in which goods are exposed or offered for sale by retail and No. 1445 s. 3. includes any rooms of hairdressers or barbers and the No. 1654 s. 12.