The Factories Act.-1907. II. The making of any article or part of any III. The altering, repairing, ornamenting, or finish- IV. The adapting for sale of any article; and to or over which premises or place or the pre- (2) For the purposes of registration and the computation of "Furniture" means furniture of which wood forms a part, and (a) Any person who I. Is not an apprentice; and II. Is not over the age of twenty-one years; and Inspector" means an inspector of factories appointed under Laundry " shall not include (a) Any prison, reformatory, industrial school, or home for erring women; or (b) Any institution conducted exclusively for charitable pur poses; "Machinery" includes any driving strap, band, wire, rope, or cable of any kind: "Metropolitan area" comprises the whole of the area contained in the present Electoral Districts of Adelaide, Torrens, and Port Adelaide : 66 Mill-gearing" includes every shaft, whether upright, oblique, or horizontal, and every wheel, drum, or pulley, or appliance by which the motion of the first moving power is communicated to any machine in a factory : "Minister" means the Minister of Industry or the Minister of the Crown for the time being performing the duties of Minister of Industry: "Occupier PART 1. DIVISION II. PART I. DIVISION II. Penalties. DIVISION III. Repeal. PART II. The Factories Act.-1907. "Occupier" means the person, company, corporate body, or association employing persons in a factory, and includes any agent, manager, foreman, or other person acting or apparently acting in the general management or control of any such factory: "Parent" means parent, guardian, or person having the custody of or control over any young person or child: "Proclamation" means a Proclamation by the Governor published in the Gazette: "Prescribed" means prescribed by regulations made under this Act: "Woman" means any person of the female sex over the age of sixteen years: "Young person means a boy or girl between the age of thirteen and sixteen years. 7. Where a penalty or term of imprisonment is mentioned in or at the foot of any section or subsection any contravention of the section or subsection, whether by act or omission, shall be an offence against this Act punishable upon conviction by a penalty or term of imprisonment, with or without hard labor, not exceeding that mentioned. DIVISION III.-REPEAL. 8. (1) The Acts mentioned in the First Schedule are hereby repealed. (2) Such repeal shall not affect any right, interest, or liability already created, existing, or incurred, nor anything lawfully done or suffered under any of the said Acts. (3) Any proceeding in respect of such right, interest, or liability may be carried on as if such repeal had not taken place. (4) All officers appointed under the repealed Acts and in office at the time of such repeal shall be deemed appointed under this Act. (5) All orders and notifications made under the repealed Acts and in force at the time of such repeal shall be deemed to have been made under this Act. DIVISION I. Governor may appoint inspectors. PART II. DIVISION I.-APPOINTMENT OF OFFICERS. 9. The Governor may appoint a Chief Inspector and so many Factories Act, 1894, inspectors as may appear necessary. sec. 5. Districts. See Vic. Act No. 1975, sec. 9. Certifying medical practitioners. Vic. Act No. 1975, sec. 10. 10. The Minister may, for the purposes of this Act, divide the State into such and so many districts as he thinks fit, and allot or assign one or more of such districts to one or more inspectors. 11. (1) The Minister may (a) Appoint any persons, being legally qualified medical practi- The Factories Act.-1907. (b) Allot or assign one or more districts under this Act to one or more certifying medical practitioners. PART 11. DIVISION I. act in certain cases. (2) In any part of the State to which no certifying medical Public vaccinators to practitioner has been allotted or assigned hereunder, every public vaccinator shall, without further or other authority than this section, be and act as certifying medical practitioner within the district for which he is public vaccinator. DIVISION II.-REGISTRATION OF FACTORIES. DIVISION 11. 12. No person shall occupy or use a factory unless and until the Factory not to be same is duly registered. Penalty, Five Pounds for every day during which such unregistered factory is occupied or used. 13. (1) Every person— (a) Who is in occupation of a factory when this Act comes into force (whether such factory is registered under the Acts hereby repealed or not); or (b) Who, after this Act has come into force, goes into occupation. of a factory; or (c) Who is in occupation of a building or place which becomes for the first time, or, after a period of disuse, again becomes a factory; shall register such factory. (2) The registration of a factory shall be renewed every five years. (3) Application for registration or for renewal of registration shall be in writing in the prescribed form, served upon or posted in a registered letter addressed to the Chief Inspector at his office. (4) Such application shall contain- (a) The full name of such person and a description of his factory; (b) The place where it is situated; (c) The nature of the work carried on or to be carried on therein; (d) A description of the motive power (if any) therein; (e) The trade name (if any) under which the business of the (f) Such further particulars as may be prescribed. used until registered. New Zealand Act, 59 of 1901, sec. 10. Factories Act, 1900; secs. 52 and 53. (5) Applications for registration shall be served or posted within When to be made. the times following: (a) Under division (a) of subdivision (1) of this section, within three months after this Act has come into force: (b) Under PART II. DIVISION II. Registration fee. Approval of Chief Inspector to opening of factory. Vic. Act No. 1975, sec. 21. Certificate of suitability, &c. Exemption. Registration. Vic. Act No. 1975, sec. 13. Annual fee. Vic. Act No. 1975, sec. 14. Half fee where The Factories Act.-1907. (b) Under division (b), within twenty-one days of such going into occupation: (c) Under division () within twenty-one days of such building or place becoming or again becoming a factory. (6) Every application for registration or renewal of registration shall be accompanied by the fee required by this Act. 14. (1) No building or place which at any time after this Act has come into force (a) Is about to become for the first time; or (b) After a period of disuse is about to again become a factory, shall be registered until the Chief Inspector has in writing certified (a) That such building or place is suitable for a factory; and (b) That the prescribed requirements have been complied with. (2) This section shall not apply to any premises or place which by any extension of this Act, under section 4 hereof, becomes for the first time a factory. 15. (1) Registration or renewal of registration shall be effected by entering in a register to be kept by the Chief Inspector such particulars as may be prescribed. 2) Such register shall be either in the form set out in the Second Schedule or in a prescribed form. 16. (1) The annual fee to be paid in respect of every factory (a) Shall be that specified in the Third Schedule ; (b) Shall, in the year when such factory is first registered, accompany the application for registration; and (c) Shall in each and every year thereafter be paid by the occupier of such factory on or before the thirty-first day January. (2) When any factory is opened during any year after the thirtieth factory, &c., opened day of June the fee to be paid on registration for that year shall be one-half of the rate specified in the said Schedule. after 30th June. In default of payment (3) Any factory in respect of which such annual registration fee factory to be deemed has not been paid shall be deemed to be not duly registered. unregistered. Notice closing factory. Factories Act, 1900, sec. 5. 17. The occupier of a factory who intends to close and cease to use it shall give the Chief Inspector seven days' previous notice in writing of such intention. Penalty, Five Pounds. DIVISION The Factories Act.-1907. DIVISION III.REGISTRATION OF OUTSIDE WORKERS. PART II. DIVISION III. register names and 18. (1) Every person who outside a factory wholly or partly Outside workers to prepares or manufactures, either directly or indirectly, any article addresses. for the occupier of such factory for trade or sale shall, either per- Factories Act, 1900, sonally or by written notice, register with the Chief Inspector (a) His full name and address; and (b) Any change in such address from time to time. (2) Every person so registered shall answer all questions put to him by an inspector (a) As to the person for whom the articles are being prepared or manufactured; and (6) The price or rate to be paid to him therefor Penalty, Ten Shillings. DIVISION IV.-RECORDS AND NOTICES BY OCCUPIers. 19. (1) Every occupier of a factory shall (a) Make and keep a true record in such form and giving such particulars as may be prescribed of the names, work, and wages of the persons employed in such factory, and the age of every such person under twenty-one years of age: sec. 12. DIVISION IV. Records and notices by occupiers. Factories Act, 1900, of 1905, sec. 20. (b) Produce such record for inspection, whenever demanded by Production to an inspector, and forward annually and at the prescribed inspector. time a true copy thereof to the Chief Inspector: (c) Affix and keep affixed in legible characters in some con- Information to be spicuous place, and so as to be easily read by his employés, posted in factory. a notice containing 1. The name and address of the inspector for the Name of inspector. district: II. The holidays and the working hours of the Holidays. employés : II. True copies or abstracts of such parts of this Act Abstracts of Act and IV. The name and address of the certifying medical (d) Affix and keep affixed in legible characters, in such place as Name of occupier. an inspector may direct or approve― 1. The name of such occupier; or, II. If such occupier is a company, the registered name of such company; or, 11. If such occupier is a firm, the firm name: (e) Affix and keep affixed in legible characters, in such place as Record of fines. an inspector may direct or approve, a detailed record of all fines levied by such occupier upon his employés: B-945 (f) Forward |