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Sect. 105.

38 & 39 Vict.

c. 62.

Sect. 106.
Application
of Act to
Ireland.

37 & 38 Vict.

c. 93.

terms of the Summary Prosecutions Appeal (Scotland) Act, 1875.

CVI. In the application of this Act to Ireland

(1.) The expression "certified efficient school"

means any national school, or any school recognized by the Lord Lieutenant and Privy Council as affording sufficient means of literary education for the purposes of this Act.

(2.) In lieu of any two half-holidays allowed under the provisions of sub-section (2) in section twenty-two of this Act, there shall be allowed as a holiday to every child, young person, and woman employed in a factory or workshop the whole of the seventeenth day of March: Provided, that when this date falls on a Sunday, this sub-section shall have no effect as regards such date:

(3.) The expression "sanitary authority" means an urban or rural sanitary authority within the meaning of the Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1874, and any Act amending the same:

(4.) The expression "medical officer of health means the medical sanitary officer of the sanitary district :

The expression "poor law medical officer means the dispensary doctor :

(5.) Any act authorized to be done or consent
required to be given by the Education
Department under this Act shall be done
and given by the Lord Lieutenant or Lords
Justices of Ireland, acting by and with
the advice of the Privy Council in Ire-
land:

(6.) The expression "county court'
civil bill court:

means the

(7.) The expression "Summary Jurisdiction Sect. 106. Acts" means, within the police district of Dublin metropolis, the Acts regulating

the

powers and duties of justices of the peace for such district, or of the police of such district, and elsewhere in Ireland

c. 93.

the Petty Sessions (Ireland) Act, 1851, 14 & 15 Vict. and any Act amending the same: (8.) A court of summary jurisdiction when hearing and determining any information or complaint in any matter arising under this Act shall be constituted within the police district of Dublin metropolis of one of the divisional justices of that district sitting at a police court within the district, and elsewhere of a stipendiary magistrate sitting alone, or with others, or of two or more justices of the peace sitting in petty sessions at a place appointed for holding petty sessions : (9.) Appeals from a court of summary jurisdiction shall lie in the manner and subject to the conditions and regulations prescribed in the twenty-fourth section of

the Petty Sessions (Ireland) Act, 1851, 14 & 15 Vict. and any Acts amending the same:

(10.) All fines imposed under this Act shall,

save as is otherwise expressly provided by

this Act, be applied in the manner di

c. 93.

rected by the Fines Act (Ireland), 1851, 14 & 15 Vict. any Act amending the same:

and

c. 90.

(11.) The provisions of section nineteen of the 29 & 30 Vict. Public Health Act, 1866, or of any c. 90. enactment substituted for that section, with respect to any factory, workshop, or workplace not kept in a cleanly state, or not ventilated, or overcrowded, shall not apply to any factory or workshop which

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Sect. 106.

37 & 38 Vict. c. 93.

Sect. 107.
Repeal of
Acts.

is subject to the provisions of this Act with respect to cleanliness, ventilation, and overcrowding, but shall apply to every other factory, workshop, and workplace:

It is hereby declared that the Sanitary Acts within the meaning of the Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1874, shall apply to buildings in which persons are employed, whatever their number may be, in like manner as they apply to buildings where more than twenty persons are employed:

(12.) All matters required by this Act to be published in the London Gazette shall, if they relate exclusively to Ireland, instead of being published in the London Gazette, be published in the Dublin Gazette only.

(4.) Repeal.

CVII. The Acts specified in the Sixth Schedule to this Act are hereby repealed from and after the commencement of this Act to the extent in the third column of that schedule mentioned (2):

Provided that—

(1.) All notices affixed in the factory in pursu-
ance of the Acts hereby repealed shall,
so far as they are in accordance with the
provisions of this Act, be deemed to have
been affixed in pursuance of this Act;
and
(2.) All inspectors, sub-inspectors, officers,
clerks, and servants appointed in pursu-
ance of the Acts hereby repealed shall

(2) This section totally repeals all the numerous statutory provisions hitherto regulating factories and workshops. P. 117.

continue in office and shall be subject to Sect. 107.
removal and have the same powers and

duties as if they had been appointed in
pursuance of this Act; and

(3.) All certifying surgeons appointed in pursu-
ance of any Act hereby repealed shall be
deemed to have been appointed in pursu-
ance of this Act; and

(4.) All surgical certificates granted in pursuance of any Act hereby repealed shall have effect as certificates of fitness for employment granted in pursuance of this Act, and all registers kept in pursuance of any Act hereby repealed shall, until otherwise directed by a Secretary of State, be deemed to be the registers required by this Act; and

(5.) Any order made by a Secretary of State in pursuance of any enactment hereby repealed for granting any permission or relaxation to any factories or workshops may, if the Secretary of State so direct, continue in force for a period not exceeding three months after the commencement of this Act; and

(6.) The standard of proficiency fixed by the Education Department in pursuance of any enactment hereby repealed shall be deemed to have been fixed in pursuance of this Act; and

c. 79,

c. 44.

(7.) A child exempted by section eight of the Elementary Education Act, 1876, from 39 & 40 Vict. the provisions of section twelve of the Factory Act, 1874, by reason of his 37 & 38 Vict. having attained the age of eleven years before the first day of January, 1877, shall, on attaining the age of thirteen years, be deemed to be a young person within the meaning of this Act:

Sect. 107.

(8.) This repeal shall not affect—

(a.) Anything duly done or suffered under any enactment hereby repealed; or

(b.) Any obligation or liability incurred under any enactment hereby repealed; or

(c.) Any penalty or punishment incurred in respect of any offence committed against any enactment hereby repealed; or

(d.) Any legal proceeding or remedy in respect of any such obligation, liability, penalty, or punishment as aforesaid, and any such legal proceeding and remedy may be carried ou as if this Act had not passed.

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