Sect. 70. of appoint LXX. Every inspector under this Act shall be Certificates furnished with the prescribed (u) certificate of his appointment, and on applying for admission to a inspectors. factory or workshop shall, if required, produce to the occupier the said certificate. ment of Sect. 71. Poor law certifying surgeon within three miles. Sect. 72. Appointment of certifying surgeons. 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 imprisoned for a period not exceeding three months, with or without hard labour. (2.) Certifying Surgeons. LXXI. 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. LXXII. 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. (u) I.e., prescribed by a Secretary of State. S. 93. A Secretary of State may from time to time make Sect. 72. 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. LXXIII. A certificate of fitness (v) for employ- Sect. 73. ment shall not be granted for the purposes of this Regulations Act, except upon personal examination of the person named therein. A certifying surgeon shall not examine a child or young person for the 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. as to the grant of certificates of fitness. certifying surgeons for LXXIV. With respect to the fees to be paid to Sect. 74. certifying surgeons in respect of the examination of, Fees of and grant of certificates of fitness for employment for, children and young persons in factories or examinaton workshops, the following provisions shall have and young effect (w): (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 (v) As to these certificates, see ss. 27, et seq. of children persons. (w) It is one of the duties of these officers to investigate cases of accidents at factories and workshops; and for this purpose they have the same powers as an inspector, and have also power to enter any room in a building to which the person killed or injured has been removed. S. 32; ante, p. 37. (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 certificates, 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 three- Sect. 74. (5.) A Secretary of State may from time to time, (3.) Miscellaneous. factory to be given to LXXV. Every person shall, within one month Sect. 75. after he begins to occupy a factory (x), serve on an Notice of inspector a written notice containing the name of the factory, the place where it is situate, the address inspector. 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. of hours by LXXVI. Where an inspector, by notice in writing, Sect. 76. names a public clock, or some other clock open to Regulation public view, for the purpose of regulating the period public of employment in a factory or workshop, the period clock. of employment and times allowed for meals for children, young persons, and women in that factory or workshop shall be regulated by that clock, which shall be specified in the notice affixed in the factory or workshop (y). LXXVII. The occupier of every factory and Sect. 77. workshop to which this section applies shall keep in Registers to be kept in a the prescribed (z) form and with the prescribed (x) This requirement does not apply to workshops, (y) The notice need not be affixed in a domestic factory or workshop, nor in a workshop where children and young persons are not employed. S. 61. (z) I.e., prescribed by a Secretary of State. For the penalties for making false entries in any register, notice, certificate or document required by the Act, see s. 85; post, p. 76. Sect. 77. factory or workshop. Sect. 78. factory or 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 time being, prohibited under this Act from being employed without a certificate of fitness for employment (a). Where by reason of the number of children and young persons employed in a factory or workshop to which this section does not for the time being apply, or otherwise, it seems expedient to a Secretary of State so to do, he may order the occupier of that factory or workshop to keep a register under this section, with power to rescind such order, and while such order is in force this section shall apply to that factory or workshop. In the event of a contravention of this section in a factory or workshop, the occupier of the factory or workshop shall be liable to a fine not exceeding forty shillings. LXXVIII. There shall be affixed at the entrance Affixing in of a factory and a workshop, and in such other workshop of parts thereof as an inspector for the time being abstract of directs, and be constantly kept so affixed in the prescribed form and in such position as to be easily read by the persons employed in the factory or workshop, Act and notices. (1.) The prescribed abstract of this Act; and (a) Ss. 27, et seq. |