(3). Such young person shall not work in any turn without an interval of time not less than one full turn; and

(4). There shall be allowed to such young person during each turn, so far as is practicable, the like time for meals as are required Aq this act to be allowed in any other non-textile factory or workshop.

4-Special Exception for Domestic and Certain other Factories and Workshops.

61. The provisions of this act which relate

(1). To the cleanliness, including lime washing, painting, varnishing and washing, or to the freedom from effluvia, or to the overcrowding or ventilation of a factory or workshop; or

(2). To all children, young persons and women employed in a factory or workshop having the times allowed for meals at the same hour of the day, or during any part of the times allowed for meals in a factory or workshop, being employed in the factory or workshop, or being allowed to remain in any room; or

(3). To the affixing of any notice or abstract in a factory or workshop, or specifying any matter in the notice so affixed; or (4). To the allowance of any holidays to a child, young person

or woman; or

(5). To the sending notice of accidents; shall not apply—

(a). Where persons are employed at home, that is to say, to a private house, room, or place which, though used as a dwelling is by reason of the work carried on there, a factory or workshop within the meaning of this act, and in which neither steam, water, nor other mechanical power is used, and in which the only persons employed are members of the same family dwelling there; or

(b). To a workshop which is conducted on the system of not employing children or young persons therein, and the occupier of which has served on an inspector notice of his intention to conduct his workshop on that system.

And the provisions of this act with respect to certificates of fitness for employment shall apply to any such private house, room, or place as aforesaid, which by reason of the nature of the work

carried on there is a factory, as if the same were a workshop within the meaning of this act, and not a factory.

Where the occupier of a workshop has served on an inspector notice of his intention to conduct that workshop on the system of not employing children or young persons therein, the workshop shall be deemed for all the purposes of this act to be conducted on the said system until the occupier changes it, and no change shall be made until the occupier has served on the inspector notice of his intention to change the system, and until the change, a child or young person employed in the workshop shall be deemed to be employed contrary to the provisions of this act. A change in the said system shall not be made oftener than once a quarter, unless for special cause allowed in writing by an inspector.

Nothing in this section shall exempt a bakehouse from the provisions of this act with respect to cleanliness (including lime washing, painting, varnishing and washing), or to freedom from effluvia.

62. The regulations of this act with respect to the employment of women shall not apply to flax scutch mills which are conducted on the system of not employing either children or young persons therein, and which are worked intermittently, and for periods only which do not exceed in the whole six months in any year. A flax scutch mill shall not be deemed to be conducted on the system of not employing therein either children or young persons until the occupier has served on an inspector notice of his intention to conduct such mill on that system.

5-Supplemental as to Special Provisions.

63. Where it appears to a secrerary of state that the adoption of any special means or provision for the cleanliness or ventilation of a factory or workshop is required for the protection of the health of any child, young person, or woman employed in pursuance of an exception under this part of this act, either for a longer period than is otherwise allowed by this act, or at night, he may by order made under this part of this act direct that the adoption of such means or provision shall be a condition of such employment; and if it appears to a secretary of state that the adoption of any such means or provision is no longer required, or is, having regard to

all the circumstances, inexpedient, he may, by order made under this part of this act, rescind the order, directing such adoption without prejudice to the subsequent making of another order.

64. Where an exception has been granted or extended under this part of this act, by an order of a secretary of state, and it appears to a secretary of state that such exception is injurious to the health of the children, young persons, or women employed in, or is no longer necessary for the carrying on of the business in, the class of factories or workshops, or parts thereof to which the said exception was so granted or extended, he may by an order made under this part of this act rescind the grant or extension without prejudice to the subsequent making of another order.

65. Where a secretary of state has power to make an order under this part of this act, the following provisions shall apply to that order:

(1). The order shall be under the hand of the secretary of state, and shall be published in the London Gazette, and shall come into operation at the date of such publication in the London Gazette, or at any later date mentioned in the order.

(2) The order may be temporary or permanent, conditional or unconditional, and whether extending a prohibition or exception, granting an exception, directing the adoption of any means or provisions, or rescinding a previous order or effecting any other thing, may do so either wholly or partly.

(3). The order shall be laid as soon as may be before both Houses of Parliament, and if either House of Parliament, within the next forty days after the same has been so laid before such House, notice that such order ought to be annulled, the same shall, after the date of such resolution, be of no effect, without prejudice to the validity of anything done in the meantime under such order or to the making of any new order.

(4). The order, while it is in force, shall, so far as is consistent with the tenor thereof, apply as if it formed part of the enactment which provides for the extension or grant or otherwise for making the order.

66. An occupier of a factory or workshop, not less than seven days before he avails himself of any special exception under this part of this act, shall serve on an inspector and (except in the case

of a factory or workshop to which the provisions of this act with respect to the affixing of notices do not apply) affix in his factory. or workshop notice of his intention so to avail himself, and whilst he avails himself of the exception shall keep the notice so affixed.

Before the service of such notice on the inspector the special exception shall not be deemed to apply to the factory or workshop, and after the service of such notice on the inspector it shall not be competent in any proceeding under this act for the occupier to prove that such special exception does not apply to his factory or workshop unless he has previously served on an inspector notice that he no longer intends to avail himself of such special exception.

The notice so served and affixed shall specify the hours for the beginning and end of the period of employment, and the times to be allowed for meals to every child, young person, and woman where they differ from the ordinary hours or times.

An occupier of a factory or workshop shall enter in the prescribed register and report to an inspector the prescribed particulars respecting the employment of a child, young person, or woman, in pursuance of an exception, but such entry and report need not be made in the case of a factory or workshop to which the provisions of this act with respect to the affixing of notices do not apply, except so far as may be from time to time prescribed by a secretary of state.

Where the occupier of a factory or workshop avails himself of an exception under this part of this act, and a condition for availing himself of such exception, whether specified in this part of this act, or in an order of a secretary of state made under this part of this act, is not observed in that factory or workshop, then

(1). If such condition relates to the cleanliness, ventilation, or overcrowding of the factory or workshop, the factory or workshop shall be deemed not to be kept in conformity with this act; and

(2). In any other case a child, young person, or woman employed in the factory or workshop, in alleged pursuance of the said exception, shall be deemed to be employed contrary to the provisions of this act.

PART III.-ADMINISTRATION, PENALTIES, AND LEGAL PROCEEDINGS.

I-Inspection.

67. A secretary of state, from time to time, with the approval of the Treasury, as to numbers and salaries, may appoint such inspectors (under whatever title he may from time to time fix), and such clerks and servants as he may think necessary for the execution of this act, and may assign to them their duties and award them their salaries, and may constitute a principal inspector with an office in London, and may regulate the cases and manner in which the inspectors, or any of them, are to execute and perform the powers and duties of inspectors under this act, and may remove such inspectors, clerks, and servants.

The salaries of the inspectors, clerks, and servants, and the expenses incurred by them or by a secretary of state in the execution of this act, shall be paid out of moneys provided by Parliament.

Notice of the appointment of every such inspector shall be published in the London Gazette.

A person who is the occupier of a factory or workshop, or is directly or indirectly interested therein or in any process or business carried on therein, or in a patent connected therewith, or is employed in or about a factory or workshop, shall not act as an inspector under this act. An inspector under this act shall not be liable to serve in any parochial or municipal office.

Such annual report of the proceedings of the inspectors as the secretary of state, from time to time, directs, shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament.

A reference in this act to an inspector refers, unless it is otherwise expressed, to an inspector appointed in pursuance of this section, and a notice or other document required by this act to be sent to an inspector shall be sent to such inspector as a secretary of state from time to time directs, by declaration published in the London Gazette, or otherwise as he thinks expedient for making the same known to all persons interested.