Duty of police to enforce former

Acts.

Saving for

vagrant Act.

Saving for local Acts

and local

authorities.

the Chimney Sweepers and Chimneys Regulation Act, 1840, and shall be in the discretion of the Court of Appeal in case the conviction is confirmed.

21. The chief officer of police shall enforce and put in execution the Chimney Sweepers and Chimneys Regulation Acts, 1840 and 1864, without prejudice to the right of any other person to institute proceedings thereunder.

Ireland.

22. In Ireland the Lord-Lieutenant shall have power and authority under this Act in lieu of one of her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State. 23. Penalties recovered in Ireland shall be applied according to the Fines Act (Ireland), 1851, or any Act amending the same.

Savings.

24. A person shall not be exempt from the provisions of any Act relating to idle or disorderly persons, or to rogues or vagabonds, by reason only that he has a certificate under this Act, or assists or accompanies a person having such a certificate.

25. Nothing in this Act shall interfere with the operation of any other Act in force in any city, town, or other place, or take away or abridge any power vested in any local authority by any general or local Act.

All the police under one chief constable constitute one police force for the purposes of this schedule.

PART II.

(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act (No. 2), 1893.)

PART III.

FORMS.

(A.)-Application for Certificate.

I A. B. [names of applicant in full] of [dwelling place] hereby apply for a certificate under the Chimney Sweepers Act, 1875, to authorise me to act as a chimney sweeper within police district; and I declare that the

following statement is true and correct:

in the county of

is

In pursuance of the Chimney Sweepers Act, 1875, I hereby certify that A. B. [names of applicant in full] of authorised to carry on the business of a chimney sweeper within the police district for one year, reckoned from the date of this certificate.

Penalty for the knocking or ringing bells.

Application of fees.

38 & 39 Vict. c. 70.

Short title and construction.

Extent of Act. Commencement of Act.

57 & 58 VICT. c. 51 (1894).

An Act to make better provision for the Regulation of Chimney Sweepers.

1. Any person who shall for the purpose of soliciting employment as a chimney sweeper knock at the houses from door to door, or ring a bell, or use any noisy instrument, or to the annoyance of any inhabitant thereof ring the door-bell of any house, or cause anyone to do any of the acts aforesaid, shall be liable on summary conviction to a penalty not exceeding ten shillings for the first offence, and to a penalty not exceeding twenty shillings for every subsequent offence.

2. All fees received under the Chimney Sweepers Act, 1875, in England shall be paid to the pension fund of the police force of the police district in which the certificate under the said Act was issued.

3. This Act may be cited as "The Chimney Sweepers Act, 1894,” and shall be read as one with the Chimney Sweepers Act, 1875.

4. This Act shall not apply to Scotland.

5. This Act shall come into operation on the first day of January one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five.

CHAPTER VI.

LABOUR IN MINES.

THE chief Acts dealing with this subject are the Coal Mines Regulation Act, 1887, amended by the Acts of 1894, 1896, 1903, and 1905; the Metalliferous Mines Regulation Acts, 1872 and 1875; the Quarries Act, 1894; and the Mines (Prohibition of Child Labour Underground) Act, 1900.

The main object of this legislation is similar to that of the Factory and Workshop Acts, viz., to protect persons engaged in mining from dangers incident to their occupation.

The principal differences between the Coal Mines Regulation Act of 1872 and that of 1887, which replaces it, are these:-(1) The age, under which underground employment of boys is prohibited, is raised from ten to twelve; and is now raised to thirteen by the Mines (Prohibition of Child Labour Underground) Act, 1900 (6.3 & 64 Vict. c. 21); (2) Further provisions as to (i) the inspection of mines, (ii) the use of explosives therein, (iii) the qualification of a miner (sect. 49, rr. 38, 12, 39);

(3) Some changes in the check-weighing clauses (a) ;

(4) The sections as to education of children in employment are omitted, this subject being dealt with by the Elementary Education Acts. (See pp. 450 et seq., infra.)

35 & 36 VICT. c. 77 (1872).

An Act to consolidate and amend the Law relating to Metalliferous Mines.

Preliminary.

1. This Act may be cited as "The Metalliferous Mines Regulation Act, Short title. 1872."

Section 2. Commencement.-Repealed.

(a) These are discussed infra in the notes on sects. 12 et seq.

Application of Act.

Employment

of women

and children.

Hours of employment of male young

persons.

Register to be

kept by owner, &c., of boys and male

young persons employed in mines.

3. This Act shall apply to every mine (b) of whatever description other than a mine to which the Coal Mines Regulation Act, 1872, applies.

PART I.

Employment of Women, Young Persons, and Children.

4. No boy under the age of twelve years (c), and no girl or woman of any age, shall be employed in or allowed to be for the purpose of employment in any mine to which this Act applies below ground.

5. A male young person of the age of thirteen and under the age of sixteen years shall not be employed in or allowed to be for the purpose of employment in any mine to which this Act applies below ground for more than fifty-four hours in any one week, or more than ten hours in any one day, or otherwise than in accordance with the regulations following; that is to say,

(1) There shall be allowed an interval of not less than eight hours between the period of employment on Friday and the period of employment on the following Saturday, and in other cases of not less than twelve hours between each period of employment; provided always, that in the case of young male persons whose employment is at such distance from their ordinary place of residence that they do not return there during the intervals of labour, and who are not employed during more than forty hours in any week, an interval of not less than eight hours shall be allowed between each period of employment:

(2) The period of each employment shall be deemed to begin at the time of leaving the surface, and to end at the time of returning to the surface:

(3) A week shall be deemed to begin at midnight on Saturday night, and to end at midnight on the succeeding Saturday night.

6. The owner (d) or agent of every mine to which this Act applies shall keep in the office at the mine, or in the principal office of the mine belonging to the same owner in the district in which the mine is situated, a register, and shall cause to be entered in such register the name, age, residence, and date of first employment of [all boys of the age of twelve and under the age of thirteen years (c), and of] all male young persons of the age of thirteen and under the age of sixteen years who are employed in the mine below ground, and of all women, young persons, and children employed above ground in

(b) See sect. 3 of Mines (Coal) Regulation Act, 1887. A slate quarry worked by means of underground workings and levels, within the Act: Sim v. Evans (1875), 23 W. R. 730. See as to difference between "mine" and "quarry," and the meaning of "minerals," Bell v. Wilson (1865), 35 L. J. Ch. 337; and, on appeal, L. R. 1 Ch. 303; Att.-Gen. of Isle of Man v. Mylechreest (1879), 4 A. C. 294; Lord Provost of Glasgow v. Farie (1888), 13 A. C. 657; Midland Rail. Co. v. Robinson (1889), 15 A. C.