Limiting the number of hours for which persons under eighteen years of age are to be employed. Act extended to females above eighteen. Recited acts and this act to be construed as one act. Act may be amended, &c. that from the said first day of July one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven the said two acts before mentioned shall in all respects be construed as if the provision in the provision in the (e) said firstmentioned act contained, as to persons under the age of eighteen years working in mills and factories, had been confined to eleven hours instead of twelve hours in any one day, and to sixty-three hours in any one week instead of sixty-nine hours. 2. And be it enacted, that from the first day of May one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight no person under the age of eighteen years shall be employed in any such mill or factory, in such description of work as in the said first-mentioned act is specified, for more than ten hours in any one day nor more than fifty-eight hours in any one week, except as in the said act is provided; and that from the first day of May one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight the said two acts shall in all respects be construed as if the provision in the said first-mentioned act contained, as to persons under the age of eighteen years working in mills and factories, had been confined to ten hours instead of twelve hours in any one day, and fifty-eight hours in any one week instead of sixty-nine hours. 3. And be it enacted, that the restrictions respectively by this act imposed as regards the working of persons under the age of eighteen years shall extend to females above the age of eighteen years. 4. And be it enacted, that the said two hereinbefore-mentioned acts as amended by this act, and this act, shall be construed together as one act. 5. And be it enacted, that this act may be amended or repealed by any act to be passed in this present session of Parliament." 10 & 11 VICT. c. 70. 8 & 9 Vict. c. 29. An Act to amend the Law as to the School Attendance of Children Whereas it is expedient that so much of an act passed in the ninth year of the reign of her Majesty, intituled "An Act to regulate the Labour of Children, Young Persons and Women in Print Works" (f), as relates to the school attendance of children employed in print works, should be amended: be it enacted by the Queen's most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and commons, in this present parliament Sections 23, assembled, and by the authority of the same, that those parts of the said act which in the copies thereof printed by the Queen's printer are printed as separate clauses, and severally numbered 23, 24 and 25, and also so much of the schedule annexed to the said act marked (A.) as relates to certificates of school attendance shall be repealed from and after the first day of August in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven; provided that all certificates given before the said first day of August shall be as valid as if this act had not been passed, and all offences committed before the said first day of August against any of the enactments hereby repealed shall be dealt with and punished as if this act had not been passed. 24 and 25, (e) Sic. (ƒ) Ante, p. 493. master to 2. And be it enacted, that the master of any school which shall Schoolbe attended by children employed in a print work shall keep a keep a reregister of their names and attendance, and if the inspector of the gister of district shall disapprove of the form of register adopted by the children's schoolmaster it shall be kept in such other form as the inspector may direct. attendance. print works master of child's at 3. And be it enacted, that after the said first day of August the Occupiers of occupier of every print work shall, before employing any child to obtain therein, obtain from a schoolmaster a certificate, according to one of certificate the forms and according to the directions given in the schedule from schoolmarked (A.) to this act annexed, that such child had attended school for at least thirty days and not less than one hundred and fifty hours tendance at during the half-year immediately preceding the first day of the em- school. ployment of such child, or if it shall have left the said print works and shall be again employed therein, the said school attendance shall have been during the half-year immediately preceding the first day of such re-employment, and such school attendance shall be after the hour of eight of the clock in the morning, and before the hour of six of the clock in the evening; but no attendance of less than two and a half hours on any one day shall be reckoned as any part of the said one hundred and fifty hours, nor shall any attendance on any one day for more than five hours be reckoned for more than five hours: and a like certificate shall be obtained at the beginning of each period of six calendar months during which the employment of such child shall be continued in that print work; and such occupier shall keep every such certificate so long as such child shall continue in his employment for twelve calendar months after the date thereof, and shall produce the same to any inspector or sub-inspector when required during such period. 4. And be it enacted, that from and after the said first day of Certificate to August the forms of certificates of school attendance of children be given according to employed in print works shall be in one of the forms given in the schedule. schedule marked (A.) annexed to this act. 5. And be it enacted, that this act and the said act as amended Acts to be by this act shall be construed together and as one act. 6. And be it enacted, that this act may be amended or repealed by any act to be passed in this session of Parliament. construed together. Act may be amended, &c. [See the Schedule, next page.] . Date of Signing. at I hereby certify, that the child A. B., son [or daughter] of C. D. and E. F., residing in for the number of hours and at the time on each day specified in the columns During the several weeks ending the day, month, and year stated in the first column. attended the school kept by me opposite to his [or her] name. No part of the school attendance certified shall be valid for a longer time than six months after the date of such attendance; and if a child for whom this form of certificate has been given shall cease to be employed in the print work to the occupier of which such school certificate was delivered, the child's parent, or any person having direct benefit from the wages of such child, shall be entitled on demand to have the said certificate restored to him, m of School Certificate which may be used when two or more ren employed in the same Print Work attend the same School. and county of eby certify, that the children whose names are under-written, of and county of ing the week ending on Saturday the day of in the General Directions applicable to both Forms. In the columns headed with the days of the week, the hours of attendance shall be stated; as thus, from Nine to Twelve, or from Two to Five, or any other time as the case may be; and the schoolmaster shall, in his own handwriting, fill up the date when the week ends during any part of which the child shall have attended his school. The hours of school attendance, or the word "absent," shall be stated in the column for each day, in the handwriting of the schoolmaster; and no certificate shall be valid, unless the schoolmaster shall in his own handwriting subscribe to it his christian and sur. name in full, affixing the date when he signs the same. 3 & 4 Will. 4, c. 103. 7 & 8 Vict. c. 15. 13 & 14 VICT. c. 54. An Act to amend the Acts relating to Labour in Factories (ƒ). Whereas by an act passed in the fourth year of the reign of his late Majesty, intituled “An Act to regulate the Labour of Children and Young Persons in the Mills and Factories of the United Kingdom," it was enacted (g), that no person under the age of eighteen years should be employed in any mill or factory as in the said act mentioned, in any such description of work as therein specified, more than twelve hours in any one day, except as thereinafter provided: and whereas by an act passed in the seventh year of the reign of her present Majesty, intituled "An Act to amend the Laws relating to Labour in Factories," it was enacted (h), that the hours of work of children and young persons in every factory should be reckoned from the time when any child or young person should first begin to work in the morning in such factory; and by the same act it was enacted (i) that no female above the age of eighteen years should be employed in any factory, save for the same time and in the same manner as young persons might be employed in factories: and whereas by an act passed in the tenth year of the reign of her present Majesty, 10 & 11 Vict. intituled "An Act to limit the Hours of Labour of Young Persons and Females in Factories" (k), the hours of labour of young persons and females in factories were further restricted as therein is mentioned and whereas it is expedient to amend the said hereinbefore recited acts: be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal and commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that, save as hereinafter mentioned, so much of the said acts as restricts or limits the hours of the employment or labour of young persons, and of females above the age of eighteen years, shall be repealed, and after the passing of this act no in the morn-young person, and no female above the age of eighteen years, shall ing or after be employed in any factory before six of the clock in the morning or after six of the clock in the evening of any day (save to recover lost time, as hereinafter provided), and no young person, and no female above the age of eighteen years, shall be employed in any factory, either to recover lost time or for any other purpose, on any Saturday after two of the clock in the afternoon. c. 29. No young person or female to be employed before six six in the afternoon, or on Saturdays after two in the afternoon. Provision of 7 & 8 Vict. c. 15, requiring notices of times of beginning and ending work to be hung up, repealed. : 2. And be it enacted, that so much of the said secondly recited act as requires notice in the form given in the Schedule (C.) to such act of the hours of work of all young persons, and females above the age of eighteen years, employed in the factory, to be hung or fixed up in any factory, and so much of the same act as enacts that in any complaint of the employment of any person in a factory otherwise than is allowed by that act the time of beginning work in the morning which shall be stated in any notice fixed up in the factory, signed by the occupier or his agent, shall be taken to be the time when all persons in the factory, except children beginning to work in the afternoon, began work on any day subsequent to the date of such notice, so long as the same continued fixed up in the factory, shall be repealed. (f) See also 16 & 17 Vict. c. 104, post; 19 & 20 Vict. c. 38, post. (g) Sect. 2, ante, p. 428. (h) Sect. 26, ante, p. 466. |