Women Under the Factory Act: Part I.--Position of the Employer. Part. II--Position of the EmployedWilliams & Norgate, 1903 - 205 pages |
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Page 174 - Act are complied with so far as respects the factory and the persons employed therein; (e) to examine, either alone or in the presence of any other person, as he thinks fit, with respect to matters under this Act, every person whom he finds in a factory or...
Page 182 - On or before the first day of February and the first day of August...
Page 180 - July, 1902") applying the power to the following classes of work : — The making, cleaning, washing, altering, ornamenting, finishing, and repairing of wearing apparel, and any work incidental thereto ; The making, ornamenting, mending, and finishing of lace, and of lace curtains and nets ; Cabinet and furniture making, and upholstery work ; The making of electro-plate ; The making of files...
Page 174 - To make such examination and inquiry as may be necessary to ascertain whether the provisions of this act are complied with, so far as respects the factory...
Page 193 - A young person or a woman in a non-textile factory and a young person in a workshop shall not be employed continuously for more than five hours without an interval of at least half an hour for a meal.
Page 176 - Where an inspector is obstructed in the execution of his duties under this Act, the person obstructing him shall be liable to a fine not exceeding...
Page 175 - Act, every person whom he finds in a factory or workshop or such a school as aforesaid or whom he has reasonable cause to believe to be or to have been, within the preceding two months, employed in a factory or workshop and to require every such person to be so examined and to sign a declaration of the truth of the matters respecting which he is so examined ; and ((jr.) To exercise such other powers as may be necessary for carrying this Act into effect.
Page 25 - Every part of the mill gearing shall either be securely fenced or be in such position or of such construction as to be equally safe to every person employed in the factory as it would be if it were securely fenced...
Page 183 - Act, and a workshop shall, for the purposes of the law relating to public health, be deemed to be so overcrowded as to be dangerous or injurious to the health of the persons employed therein, if the number of cubic feet of space in any room therein bears to the number of persons employed at one time in the room a proportion less than two hundred and fifty or, during any period of overtime, four hundred cubic feet of space to every person.
Page 25 - A factory in which there is a contravention of this section shall be deemed not to be kept in conformity with this Act.