CHANGE OF NAMES REGULATION. 14° GEO. V., No. XIX. Short title. Change of name prohibited. Exemptions. No. 40 of 1923. AN ACT to regulate the conditions under which persons can change their names. BE [Assented to 22nd December, 1923.] E it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: 1. This Act may be cited as the Change of Names Regulation Act, 1923. 2. It shall be unlawful for any person to assume, use, or purport to assume or use any name other than that by which such person (a) was registered at birth, or (b) had been known by repute at the commencement of this Act, or (c) had assumed under any statute, deed poll or license, or by marriage, except by deed poll executed and registered by such person in the public office of the Registrar of Deeds and Transfers in Perth, maintained under the Act 19 Victoriæ, No. 14, or by license in writing of the Attorney General registered in the said public office. Penalty: Twenty-five pounds or imprisonment for three months. 3. Nothing in this Act shall apply to the use of a firm name under the Registration of Firms Act, 1897, or to the use of a name under the Adoption of Children Act, 1896. 4. The fees prescribed by the Second Schedule shall be Fees, payable under this Act. 5. The Governor may make regulations for the registra- Regulations. tion of deeds poll, for the enrolment of licenses, and for other purposes of this Act. BE Act, 1920. [Assented to 22nd December, 1923.] E it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: 1. This Act may be cited as the Factories and Shops Act Short title. Amendment Act, 1923, and shall be read as one with the Factories and Shops Act, 1920, hereinafter referred to as the principal Act. Provisions applieable to factories 2. A section is inserted in the principal Act, and shall where lead, arsenic, have effect, as follows: ctc., are used. See 1 Edw. VII., c. 22, ss. 7 (2), 75, 157 (3). See Regulations of 78a. (1.) In every factory where white lead, red lead, litharge, or other compounds of lead, mercurial, or arsenical preparations are manufactured or produced— (a) Suitable washing and bathing conveniences shall be provided by the occupier for the use of the employees; (b) The occupier shall not allow any employee to take a meal in any room in which such substance is used, and suitable provision shall be made by the occupier for enabling the employees to take their meals elsewhere than in the factory; (c.) and if the roasting, conversion, manufacture, production, or treatment of lead or arsenical ore by any process is carried on, masks and rubber gloves shall be provided by the occupier for use by the employees, and shall be kept efficient. (2.) The occupier of any factory shall forthwith send written notice to the nearest inspector whenever it comes to his knowledge that any employee is suffering from lead or arsenical poisoning, and such notice shall state the name and address of the employee. (3.) The Governor may, by regulations (a) require employees in a factory where lead, arsenic, or other poisonous substance is used, to be examined at such intervals as may be prescribed by the Commissioner of Public Health or some duly qualified medical practitioner appointed by him, who shall have power to order suspension from such employment; provided that such examination shall be without charge to the occupier or employee; (b) prohibit the employment of any person in such factory after suspension without the sanction of a medical practitioner; (c) require every employee to forthwith notify the occupier as to any symptoms which lead such employee to believe that he has contracted poisoning of any kind, and require the occupier to record such notification in a health register to be kept at the factory for that purpose; d) require the occupier of the factory to provide and maintain sufficient and suitable overalls and head-coverings, and clean respirators, and to cause them to be worn; and at the end of every day's work to be collected and kept in a suitable place set apart for the purpose, and to be thoroughly washed every week, and those which have been used in the stoves to be washed daily; e) require the occupier to provide and maintain, for the use of employees, suitable accommodation for clothing put off during working hours, with adequate arrangements for drying the clothing if wet; the cloak-room to be separate from the meal-room; f) require the occupier to allow to each worker at least ten minutes, in addition to the regular meal time, for washing before each meal, and before the end of the day's work; g) require the meal-room, cloak-room, baths, and sanitary conveniences to be placed under the charge of a responsible person, and to be kept clean; h) require the floors of the factory to be cleaned daily, after being thoroughly damped; i) require that no occupier shall permit an employee to partake of a meal in and upon the factory; j) require the occupier to provide for the em- scribed as an antidote to poisons inhaled or k) provide generally for any matters necessary to Section 119. tion one hundred and nineteen of the principal Act Amendment of amended by the excision of the word "and," in the of the section, and the substitution of the word INSPECTION OF MACHINERY. 14° GEO. V., No. XXI. Short title Amendment of section 15. No. 42 of 1923. AN ACT to amend the Inspection of Machinery Act, 1921. [Assented to 22nd December, 1923.] E it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by Band with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: 1. This Act may be cited as the Inspection of Machinery Act Amendment Act, 1923, and shall be read as one with the Inspection of Machinery Act, 1921, hereinafter referred to as the principal Act. 2. Section fifteen of the principal Act is hereby amended by substituting for subsection (4) thereof, a subsection as follows: (4.) No person under twenty-one years of age or between that age and fifty shall be employed in the control of a passenger lift unless he (a) has served the Empire in any war, or (b) is physically incapable of undertaking more exacting or laborious work. Provided that no person so employed shall be paid less than the minimum wage prescribed for adult labourers. more Provided also that any person not being under the age of eighteen years, who at the commencement of this Act was employed in the control of a passenger lift, may continue to be so employed. |