An Act to consolidate and amend the Law relating to [Assented to, December 21st, 1907.] E it Enacted by the Governor of the State of South Australia, with the advice and consent of the Parliament thereof, as follows: 1. This Act may be cited as "The Factories Act, 1907." Short title. 2. (1) This Act shall come into operation on a day to be fixed Date of operation. by Proclamation. 3. This Act is divided into Parts and Divisions, as follows:PART 1.-Operation, Interpretation, and Repeal DIVISION 1.-Operation of Act: DIVISION II.-Interpretation: DIVISION III.-Repeal. PART 11.-Administration DIVISION 1.- Appointment of Officers: DIVISION II.--Registration of Factories: DIVISION III.-Registration of Outside Workers. DIVISION IV.- Records and Notices by Occupiers. PART III.-Powers and Duties of Factory Inspectors. Division of Act. PART The Factories Act.-1907. PART IV. Sanitation in Factories DIVISION 1.- Cleanliness and Overcrowding: DIVISION II.-Safety, Conveniences, and Appliances: DIVISION III.-Sleeping-places: DIVISION IV.-Lime-washing: DIVISION v.- Remedying Defects: DIVISION VI.-Meals of Employés. PART V.-Special Provisions for Certain Trades DIVISION II.-Dust-generating Factories: DIVISION III.-Wet Spinning Rooms. PART VI.-Regulation and Use of Machinery in Factories. DIVISION 1.-Fencing of Machinery: DIVISION II.--Grindstones: DIVISION III.-Restrictions as Females: DIVISION IV.-Accidents. to Young Persons and PART VII.-Restrictions regarding Employés in Factories DIVISION 1.-Ages and Working Hours of Employés : DIVISION 11.- Working Hours in Factories where Chinese Employed: DIVISION III.-Certification of Fitness for Employment of DIVISION IV.-Employment of Boys and Females as Type setters. PART VIII.-Wages Boards DIVISION DIVISION -Appointment of Boards: II.-Records and Notices by Employers. DIVISION III.-Mode of Appointment: DIVISION IV.-General Provisions relating to Constitution DIVISION DIVISION of Boards: v.-Objects and Duties of Boards: VI.--Piece-work Rates may be Fixed by DIVISION VII.-Aged, Slow, and Infirm Workers: DIVISION VIII.Duration, Publication, and Application of Determinations: DIVISION DIVISION The Factories Act.-1907. IX.-Suspension of Determinations: DIVISION x.--Powers and Duties of Inspectors. DIVISION XI.-Minimum Wage and Prohibition of DIVISION XII. -General Provisions: DIVISION XIII.-Court of Industrial Appeals. PART IX.-Regulations. PART X.-Legal Procedure DIVISION 1.-Proceedings to try title of Member of DIVISION II.-Evidence: DIVISION III.-Summary Procedure and Penalties. PART I. OPERATION, INTERPRETATION, AND REPEAL. DIVISION I.--OPERATION OF ACT. 4. (1) This Act applies to the Metropolitan area. PART I. DIVISION I. Application of Act. Cf. Factories Act, 1904, sec. 3; Factories Act, 1900, sec. 4; Vic. Act, No. 1975, sec. 6. (2) The application of this Act, or of any part thereof, may Extension of (subject to section 5) be extended by Proclamation to any portion application of Act. of the State specified therein. (3) No such Proclamation shall be issued until after the passing Resolution of both by both Houses of Parliament of a resolution affirming the desira- Houses required. bility of such extension. extension of Act (4) The Governor may, upon a resolution passed by both Houses Revocation of of Parliament affirming the desirability thereof, revoke, alter, or vary any Proclamation made under subsection (2). ( When a determination of a Board has, pursuant to section 105, subsection (2), been applied to any locality or area outside the metropolitan area, this Act, so far as its provisions may be necessary to give effect to such determination, shall apply to such locality or area. 5. The application of Parts I. to VII. inclusive shall not, as Exemptions from regards agricultural, horticultural, viticultural, or pastoral pursuits, application of Act. or butter or cheese making, be extended to any employer or employé sec. s. engaged therein, or to any factory connected therewith. DIVISION II. -INTERPRETATION. 6. In this Act, unless inconsistent with the context "Act" includes Regulations made hereunder: Vic. Act No. 1975, DIVISION II. Interpretation. "Apprentice" PART I. DIVISION II. Cf. 1 Ed. VII., c. 22, sec. 149. The Factories Act.-1907. "Apprentice" means and includes (a) A person under twenty-one years of age who is bound by indentures of apprenticeship, entered into prior to the passing of this Act, which bind the employer to instruct such person, for a period of not less than three years, in the particular process, trade, business, occupation, or calling carried on by such employer, or in any part thereof approved by the Chairman; and (b) A person under the age of twenty-one years who is bound by indentures of apprenticeship, entered into after the passing of this Act, which bind the employer to instruct such person in the particular process, trade, business, occupation, or calling carried on by such employer, or any part thereof approved by the Chairman, and which indentures 1. Are in the form prescribed by the order made by the Board pursuant to section 93, subsection VI.; and II. Are entered into for the term prescribed by such order; or where no such term is prescribed, then for a term of not less than three years: (c) A person bound by indentures of apprenticeship approved by the Chairman under section 97, subsection (1); and (d) A person bound pursuant to section 97, subsection (2), by indentures of apprenticeship which comply with the order made by the Board pursuant to section 93, subsection VI.: (e) Any person under the age of twenty-one years who has completed his apprenticeship, such apprenticeship having been for a term of not less than three years: "Board" means the Wages Board appointed under this Act in respect of the particular process, trade, business, occupa tion, or calling, or group, or part concerned: "Chairman" means the Chairman of the Board: "Chief Inspector" means the Chief Inspector of Factories: 66 (1) Any premises or place within which or the precincts thereof the occupier employs any one person at manual labor which is exercised by way of trade or for purposes of gain in or incidental to |