PART X.-Court of Industrial Appeals.

Repeal.

First Schedule.

No. 1091 s. 2.

Application of Act.
No. 1058 s. 32.

3. (1) The Acts mentioned in the First Schedule to this Act to the extent to which the same are thereby expressed to be repealed are hereby repealed.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 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 stances appointed or created by and existing or continuing under the several Acts hereby repealed respectively.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accordance with law to have under this Act the same status operation and effect as they respectively had under the said repealed Acts immediately before the commencement of this Act, and shall be deemed to have been made under this Act, and the several corresponding provisions of this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.

Interpretation.
No. 1091 s. 3.
No. 1654 S. 4.

"Apprentice."

Ib.

"Board."

No. 1091 S. 3.

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 subjectmatter 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 :

5 EDW. VII.]

Factories and Shops.

[No. 1975.

Medical
Practitioner."

"Certifying medical practitioner" means any legally quali- "Certifying
fied medical practitioner who is authorized by the
Minister to grant certificates under the authority of this

Act:

No. 1091 s. 3.

"Chief Inspector" means the Chief Inspector of factories "Chief Inspector." work-rooms and shops:

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

Ib.

"Child."

Ib.

"Council" means the council of any city town borough or "Council."
shire :

Ib.

"Factory or work-room."

No. 1445 S. 3 (1)

any office building or place in which four or more
persons other than a Chinese or in which any one No. 1654 s. 12.
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 occu-
pier of any pottery or brickyard; or

any office building or place in which one or more No. 1445 s. 3.
persons are employed and in which steam water gas No. 1654 s. 12.
oil or electric power is used in preparing or manu-
facturing articles for trade or sale or in which fur-
niture is prepared or manufactured or in which any
bread or pastry is made or baked for sale.

Where the operations of any manufacturer are carried No. 1445 s. 3.
on 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 purpose of registration and for the
computation of registration fees.

A person shall be deemed and taken to be employed Ib.
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 "Furniture."
and such as is usually made by cabinet-makers chair and No. 1476 s. 3.
couch makers upholsterers wood carvers or wood

turners:

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

"Laundry

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

Act generally not to apply to certain factories, &c., in shires.

5 Eow. VII.]

Factories and Shops.

[No. 1975. "Laundry" shall not be deemed to include any institution or 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.

"Improver" means any person (other than an apprentice) who does not receive a piece-work price or rate or a wages price or rate fixed by any Special Board for persons other than apprentices or improvers and who is not over twentyone 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 shops appointed under the authority of this Act and shall include the Chief Inspector :

"Prescribed" means prescribed by any regulations made pursuant to this Act; and

Regulations" means regulations under this Act:

Shop" means any building or portion of a building or place in which goods are exposed or offered for sale by retail and includes any rooms of hairdressers or barbers and the rooms of dyers and clothes cleaners commonly known as dyers' shops and clothes cleaners' shops:

'Shopkeeper" means the occupier of a shop.

(2) Application of Act.

6. (1) Subject to any Order in Council extending any provisions of this Act, the provisions thereof shall not apply to any factories work-rooms or shops other than such as are situated within any No. 1445 s. 4 (2). city town or borough.

Power to extend
factories and
work-room
provisions to
shire or part.
Ib. s. 4 (3).
No. 1654 s. 13.
Power to extend

shop provisions to No. 1445 5. 4 (4).

shire or part. s.

(2) The Governor in Council may from time to time and at any time make an order extending all or any of the provisions of this Act which relate to factories and work-rooms to any particular class of factories and work-rooms or to all the factories and work-rooms in the whole or any specified part of any shire.

(3) The Governor in Council may from time to time and at any time make an order extending the provisions of this Act which relate to shops to any particular class of shops or to the whole of the shops in the whole or any specified part of any shire if the majority of the shopkeepers keeping shops of that particular class or of the whole of the shopkeepers (as the case may be) in the locality to be affected have petitioned for the same.

(4) The