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Clause.

13. Power to Secretary of State to allow period of employment between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m. in certain cases.

44. Power of working male young persons above 16 in lace factories.

45. Power of working male young persons above 16 in bakehouses. 46. Substitution by Secretary of State of another half holiday for

Saturday.

47. Employment in Turkey red dyeing on Saturday up to 4.30 to 4.30 p.m. 48. CLAUSE A. Continuous employment of young persons, women, and children in certain cases.

49. Giving half holidays and holidays on different days to different sets of children, young persons, and women.

50. Employment of young persons and women by Jewish occupiers of factories or workshops.

51. Employment of Jews by Jews on Sunday.

(b.) Meal Hours.

52. Exception as to meal times being simultaneous, and as to employment or remaining in room where manufacturing process is carried on during meal times.

(c.) Overtime.

53. Power to employ young persons and women for 14 hours a day.

54. Power to employ for half an hour after end of work where process is in an incomplete state.

55. Employment of young persons and women in Turkey red dyeing and open air bleaching to prevent damage.

56. Employment of women for 14 hours a day to preserve perishable articles.

(d.) Nightwork.

57. Employment of male young persons at night.

58. Employment in certain letter-press printing works of male young persons over 16 at night.

59. Employment of male young persons at night, &c. in glass works.

(4.) Special Exception for Domestic Factories and Workshops and certain other Workshops.

60. Exception of domestic factories and workshops and certain other workshops from certain provisions of the Act.

Clause.

61. CLAUSE B. Exception for certain descriptions of flax scutch mills from certain provisions of Act.

(5.) Supplemental as to Special Provisions.

62. Requirement of sanitary provisions as condition of special exceptions.

63. Power to rescind order granting or extending exception.

64. Provisions as to order of Secretary of State under Part Two of Act.

65. Provisions as to occupier availing himself of special exceptions and registry of work under them.

PART III.

ADMINISTRATION, PENALTIES, AND LEGAL PROCEEDINGS.

(1.) Inspection.

66. Appointment, payment, &c. of inspectors of factories, and clerks and servants.

67. Powers of inspectors.

68. CLAUSE C. Restriction on entry of inspector into dwellings. Certificates of appointment of inspectors.

69.

(2.) Certifying Surgeons.

70. Appointment of certifying surgeons.

71.

Regulations as to the grant of certificates of fitness.

72. Fees of certifying surgeons for examination of children and young persons.

(3.) Miscellaneous.

73. Notice of factory to be given to inspector.

74. Regulation of hours by public clock.

75. Registers to be kept in a factory or workshop.

76. Affixing in factory or workshop of abstract of Act and notices. 77. Printing or writing and service of notices and documents, &c. 78. Inspection of weights and measures used in factories and workshops.

(4.) Fines.

79. Fine for not keeping factory or workshop in conformity with

Act.

Clause. 80.

Penal compensation to person injured by want of fence to machinery.

81. Fine for employing children, young persons, and women con trary to the Act.

82. Fine on parent for allowing child or young person to be employed contrary to the Act, or neglecting to cause child to attend school.

83. Forgery of certificates, false entries and declarations.

84.

Fine on person committing offence for which occupier is liable. 85. Power of occupier to exempt himself from fine or conviction of the actual offender.

86. Restraint on cumulative fines.

(5.) Legal Proceedings.

87. Prosecution of offences and recovery and application of fines. 88. Appeal to quarter sessions.

89. Limitation of time and general provisions as to summary

proceedings.

90. Evidence in summary proceedings.

PART IV.

DEFINITIONS, SAVINGS, APPLICATION TO SCOTLAND AND
IRELAND, AND REPEAL.

(1.) Definitions.

91. Factories and workshops to which Act applies.

92. Definition of employment and working for hire.

93. Definition of certified efficient school.

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94. General Definitions. "Child." " Young person." "Woman." "Parent." "Treasury." "Secretary of State." "Education Department." 'Sanitary authority." "Person." "Week.' Night." "Prescribed." "Summary Jurisdiction Acts." "Court of summary jurisdiction." "Mill-gearing."

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Special exemption of certain Trades.

95. CLAUSE D. Exemption of handicrafts in Schedule in private houses.

96. CLAUSE E. Exemption of certain home-work.

(2.) Savings.

97. Saving as to liability of hirer of machine where not occupier. 98. Saving for person employed in repair of machinery or of factory or workshop, or in process of curing fish.

Clause.

99. Application to factories and workshops of 38 & 39 Vict. c. 55.

100.

Construction of enactments referring to Factory or Workshop
Acts.

(3.) Application of Act to Scotland and Ireland.

101. Temporary saving for employment of children under 10 and children over 13 in Scotland and Ireland.

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106. CLAUSE F. Exception for factories driven by water-power.

SCHEDULES.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

SPECIAL PROVISIONS FOR HEALTH.

Factories or Workshops in which Employment of Young Persons and Children is restricted.

1. Young persons and children in processes tending to destroy health.

2. Children and female young persons in parts of glass works.

3. Girls under 16 in certain unsuitable employments.

4. Children in metal grinding and lucifer match making.

5. Child under 11 in fustian cutting.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

SPECIAL RESTRICTIONS.

Places forbidden for Meals.

Parts of factories or workshops in which by reason of the special unhealthiness of the process children, young persons, and women are forbidden to take meals.

THIRD SCHEDULE.
SPECIAL EXCEPTIONS.

PART ONE.

Period of Employment.

Employment of children, young persons, and women between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. in certain trades in which the customs or exigencies of the trade, either generally or in any particular locality, require it.

PART TWO.

Meal Hours.

Cases in which meals are allowed to be taken at different times

by reason of the continuous nature of the process or of special circumstances.

Cases and extent to which persons are allowed during meal time to be employed in the factory or workshop by reason of the continuous nature of the process or of special circumstances.

PART THREE.
Overtime.

Factories and workshops in which young persons and women may be allowed to work for 14 hours a day under certain restrictions by reason of the material being liable to be spoilt by weather or of press of work arising at recurring seasons, or of liability to sudden press of orders from unforeseen events.

PART FOUR.

Additional Half Hour.

Factories and workshops in which a child, young person, or woman may be employed for an additional half hour where the process is in an incomplete state because the time for the completion of the process cannot, by reason of the nature thereof, be accurately fixed.

PART FIVE.

Overtime for Perishable Articles.

Factories and workshops in which women may be employed for fourteen hours a day by reason of the perishable nature of the materials which are the subject of the manufacturing process or handicraft.

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