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APPENDIX.

Orders of Secretary of State made under the Factory

and Workshop Act, 1878.

[December, 1878.] (v)

FACTORY AND WORKSHOP ACT, 1878.
41 Vict. c. 16, s. 45 (w).

BISCUIT-BAKING.

CONTINUATION OF EMPLOYMENT OF MALE YOUNG PERSONS ABOVE 16 AS ADULTS.

Order of Secretary of State granting Special Exception.

WHEREAS 'it has been proved to my satisfaction that the exigencies of the trade of biscuit-baking carried on in bakehouses require that the special exception hereinafter

(v) Under several of the sections comprised in Part 2 (ss. 33—66) of The Factory and Workshop Act, 1878, a Secretary of State is empowered to make orders granting or extending special exception in certain cases. Any order thus granted must be under his hand, and must be published in the London Gazette, and come into operation at the date of such publication, or at any later date mentioned in the Order. P. 61. For provisions applying to such orders, see s. 65; p. 61.

(w) By s. 45 a Secretary of State is empowered to grant to bakehouses a special exception permitting the employment of male young persons of 16 years of age and upwards, as if they were no longer young persons. P. 47.

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mentioned should be granted, and that such grant can be made without injury to the health of the male young persons affected thereby ;

Now I, the Right Honourable Richard Assheton Cross, one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, by this Order made under Part 2 of the said Act, grant to the bakehouses mentioned in the Schedule hereunder, this special exception, permitting any male young person who on 1st January, 1879, is of the age of 16 years or upwards, and before the 1st January, 1879, was lawfully employed in biscuitbaking in a bakehouse between the hours of 5 A.M. and 9 P.M. subject to no statutory regulations as to meals or rest, to continue to be employed in biscuit-baking in a bakehouse between the same hours, as if he were no longer a young person.

This Order shall come into effect on 1st January, 1879.
Home Office, Whitehall, 10th December, 1878.
Richd. Assheton Cross.

Schedule.

Bakehouses or parts thereof in which is carried on the process of baking biscuits.

FACTORY AND WORKSHOP ACT, 1878.
41 Vict., c. 16, s. 46 (x).

SUBSTITUTION OF ANOTHER DAY FOR SATURDAY.

Order of Secretary of State granting Special Exception. WHEREAS it has been proved to my satisfaction that the customs or exigencies of the trades carried on in non-textile

(x) By s. 46 a Secretary of State is empowered to grant to any class of non-textile factories or workshops a special exception authorising the occupier to substitute by a notice affixed in his factory or

factories and workshops of the classes mentioned in the Schedule hereunder, require some other day in the week to be substituted for Saturday, as regards the hour at which the period of employment for children, young persons, and women is required by the Factory and Workshop Act, 1878, to end on Saturday;

Now I, the Right Honourable Richard Assheton Cross, one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, by this Order, made under Part 2 of the said Act, grant to factories and workshops of such classes a special exception, authorising the occupier of every such factory and workshop to substitute, by notice affixed in his factory or workshop, some other day for Saturday; and so long as the special exception is acted upon, the Act shall apply in such factory or workshop, in like manner as if the substituted day were Saturday, and Saturday were an ordinary workday.

This Order shall come into effect on 1st January, 1879, and shall, unless previously revoked, continue in force until 31st December, 1882, and no longer.

Home Office, Whitehall, 10th December, 1878.

Schedule.

Richd. Assheton Cross.

(a) Non-textile factories in which is carried on the printing of newspapers, or of periodicals, or of railway time-tables, or of law or parliamentary proceedings.

(b) Non-textile factories and workshops in which any manufacturing process or handicraft is carried on in connection with a retail shop on the same premises.

(c) Non-textile factories and workshops in which is carried on the making of any article of wearing apparel or of food.

(d) Non-textile factories and workshops in places in which the market day is Saturday, or in which a special day has been set apart for weekly half-holiday.

workshop some other day for Saturday as regards the hour at which the period of employment is required to end on Saturday. P. 48.