68. An inspector under this act shall for the purpose of the execution of this act have power to do all or any of the following things, namely,

(1). To enter, inspect and examine at all reasonable times by day and night a factory and a workshop, and every part thereof, when he has reasonable cause to believe that any person is employed therein, and to enter by day any place which he has reasonable cause to believe to be a factory or workshop; and

(2). To take with him in either case a constable into a factory in which he has reasonable cause to apprehend any serious obstruction in the execution of his duty; and

(3). To require the production of the registers, certificates, notices, and documents kept in pursuance of this act, and to inspect, examine and copy the same; and

(4). To make such examination and inquiry as may be necessary to ascertain whether the enactments for the time being in force relating to public health and the enactments of this act are complied with, so far as respects the factory or workshop and the persons employed therein; and

(5). To enter any school in which he has reasonable cause to believe that children employed in a factory or workshop are for the time being educated; and

(6). To examine either alone or in the presence of any other person, as he thinks fit, with respect to matters under this act, every person whom he finds in a factory or workshops, or such a school as aforesaid, or whom he has reasonable cause to believe to be or to have been within the preceeding two months employed in a factory or workshop, and to require such person to be so examined and to sign a declaration of the truth of the matters respecting which he is so examined; and

(7). To exercise such other powers as may be necessary for carrying this act into effect.

The occupier of every factory or workshop, his agents and servants, shall furnish the means required by an inspector as necessary for an entry, inspection, examination, inquiry, or the exercise of his powers under this act in relation to such factory and workshop.

Every person who wilfully delays an inspector in the exercise of any power under this section, or who fails to comply with a requi

sition of an inspector in pursuance of this section, or to produce any certificate or document which he is required by or in pursuance of this act to produce, or who conceals or prevents a child, young person, or woman from appearing before or being examined by an inspector, or attempts so to conceal or prevent a child, young person, or woman, shall be deemed to obstruct an inspector in the execution of his duties, under this act: Provided always, that no one shall be required under this section to answer any question or to give any evidence tending to criminate himself.

Where an inspector is obstructed in the execution of his duties under this act, the person obstructing him shall be liable to a fine not exceeding five pounds; and where an inspector is so obstructed in a factory or workshop, the occupier of that factory or workshop shall be liable to a fine not exceeding five, or where the offence is committed at night, twenty pounds; and where an inspector is so obstructed in a factory or workshop within the meaning of section sixteen of this act, the occupier shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one, or where the offence is committed at night, five pounds.

69. An inspector before entering, in pursuance of the powers conferred by this act, without the consent of the occupier, any room or place actually used as a dwelling as well as a factory or workshop, shall, on an affidavit or statutory declaration of facts and reasons, obtain written authority so to do from a secretary of state, or such warrant as is hereinafter mentioned from a justice of the peace.

The affidavit or statutory declaration above mentioned may be inspected or produced in evidence 'in all respects the same as an information on oath before a justice.

A justice of the peace, if satisfied by information on oath that there is reasonablecause to suppose that any enactment of this act is contravened in any such room or place as aforesaid, may in his discretion grant a warrant under his hand authorizing the inspector named therein at any time within the period named therein, but not exceeding one month from the date thereof, to enter in pursuance of this act, the room or place named in the warrant, and exercise therein the powers of inspection and examination conferred by this act, and the fines and provisions of this act with respect to obstruction of an inspector shall apply accordingly.

70. Every inspector under this act shall be furnished with the prescribed certificate of his appointment, and on applying for admission to a factory or workshop shall, if required, produce to the occupier the said certificate.

Every person who forges or counterfeits any such certificate, or makes use of any forged, counterfeited, or false certificate, or personates the inspector named in any such certificate, or falsely pretends to be an inspector under this act, shall be liable to be imprisioned for a period not exceeding three months, with or without hard labor.

2-Certifying Surgeons.

71. Where there is no certifying surgeon resident within three miles of a factory or workshop, the poor law medical officer shall be for the time being the certifying surgeon under this act for such factory or workshop.

72. Subject to such regulations as may be from time to time made by a secretary of state, an inspector may from time to time appoint a sufficient number of duly registered medical practitioners to be certifying surgeons for the purposes of this act and may from time to time revoke any such appointment.

Every appointment and revocation of appointment of a certifying surgeon may be annulled by a secretary of state upon appeal to him for that purpose.

A surgeon 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, shall not be a certifying surgeon for that factory or workshop.

A secretary of state may from time to time make rules for the guidance of certifying surgeons, and for the particulars to be registered respecting their visits, and for the forms of certificates and other documents to be used by them.

73. A certificate of fitness for employment shall not be granted for the purposes of this act, except upon personal examination of the person named therein.

A certifying surgeon shall not examine a child or young person for purposes of a certificate of fitness for employment, or sign

any such certificate elsewhere than at the factory or workshop where such child or young person is or is about to be employed, unless the number of children and young persons employed in that factory or workshop are less than five, or unless for some special reason allowed in writing by an inspector.

If a certifying surgeon refuses to grant for any person examined by him a certificate of fitness for employment, he shall when required give in writing and sign the reasons for such refusal.

74. With respect to the fees to be paid to certifying surgeons in respect of the examination of, and grant of certificates of fitness for employment for children and young persons in factories and workshops the following provisions shall have effect:

(1). The occupier may agree with the certifying surgeon as to the amount of such fees;

(2). In the absence of any such agreement the fees shall be those named in the following scale:

(3). The occupier shall pay the fees on the completion of the examination, or if any certificates are granted, at the time at which the surgeon signs the certificate, or at any other time directed by an inspector.

(4). The occupier may deduct the fee or any part thereof, not exceeding in any case threepence, from the wages of the person for whom the certificate was granted.

(5). A secretary of state may from time to time, if he thinks it expedient, alter any fees fixed by this section.

3.-Miscellaneous.

75. Every person shall, within one month after he begins to occupy a factory, serve on an inspector a written notice containing the name of the factory, the place where it is situate, the address to which he desires his letters to be addressed, the nature of the work, the nature and amount of the moving power therein, and the name of the firm under which the business of the factory is to be carried on, and in default shall be liable to a fine not exceeding five pounds.

76. Where an inspector, by notice in writing, names a public clock, or some other clock open to public view, for the purpose of regulating the period of employment in a factory or workshop, the period of employment and times allowed for meals for children, young persons, and women employed in that factory or workshop shall be regulated by that clock, which shall be specified in the notice affixed in the factory or workshop.

77. The occupier of every factory and workshop to which this section applies shall keep in the prescribed form and with the prescribed particulars registers of the children and young persons employed in that factory or workshop, and of their employment, and of other matters under this act.

The occupier of a factory or workshop shall send to an inspector such extracts from any register kept in pursuance of this act as the inspector from time to time requires for the execution of his duties under this act.

This section applies to every factory and workshop in which a child or young person under the age of sixteen years is for the