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Threading

of shuttles.

Metal-grind

(2) The Secretary of State may, on the application of any body representative of the employers or workers in the baking industry in any district, by special order, prohibit any person who carries on within the district the manufacture of bread or flour confectionery, or 5 any such process as aforesaid, whether he does or does not employ any other persons in his business, from being himself engaged in the manufacture or process between the hours of eleven in the evening and five in the morning.

(3) This section shall come into operation on the 10 first day of January, nineteen hundred and twenty

seven:

Provided that if a joint application is made to the Secretary of State by any body or bodies representative of the employers and of the workers in the industry in 15 any district, the Secretary of State may by special order direct that this section shall come into operation in that district at such earlier date as may be fixed by the order.

55. After five years from the commencement of this Act, there shall not be used in any factory in which is 20 carried on the weaving of cotton cloth any shuttle which is capable of being readily threaded by suction of the mouth, except in the case of such special classes of cloth as may be excepted from the operation of this section by order of the Secretary of State.

56. Where the grinding of metal implements is ing factories. carried on in a tenement factory, the following provisions shall apply:

(1) Where drums are used hand rails must be fixed over the drums and kept in proper repair:

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30 (2) Where chains, hooks, or other fastenings are used to secure a grinder's horsing or seat, such chains, hooks, and fastenings shall be maintained in an efficient condition for such purpose:

(3) In every room constructed or converted for use 35 as a grinding room after the passing of this Act, there shall be provided

(a) a minimum distance of four feet between any two grindstones, or three feet if the stones are less than two feet in diameter; 40 and

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(b) a clear space of not less than six feet A.D. 1924. between any stone and any wall towards which it runs.

These requirements shall not apply to
grindstones made up of blocks of stone inserted
in a metal frame, or prevent the use of two
grindstones in a saw-grinding or similar machine,
or the use of splash boards between a stone and
a wall:

(4) Except in pursuance of a special exemption
granted by the Secretary of State, a grindstone
shall not be run-

(a) in line with any other grindstone; or

(b) in front of and in the direction of any fireplace; and it shall be deemed to be so run if the distance between either edge of the stone and a parallel line passing through the centre of the fire is less than three feet; or

(c) so that any part of the stone is within six feet of a fire.

57.--(1) In every humid factory in which regula- Humid tions made under this Part of this Act, with respect to factories. humidity, are not for the time being in force, the following provisions shall apply :

(a) There shall be no artificial humidification in any
room at any time when the wet-bulb reading
of the hygrometer exceeds seventy-five degrees,
or in the case of rooms in which the spinning
of cotton, or in which the spinning of merino,
cashmere or wool by the French or dry process,
is carried on, eighty degrees:
(b) The humidity of the atmosphere shall not at
any time be such that the difference between
the readings of the dry and wet bulb thermo-
meters is less than that indicated in the table
of humidity set out in the First Schedule to
this Act, or such other table as may be substi-
tuted therefor by the Secretary of State by
special order:
(c)—(i) There shall be provided and maintained in
correct working order, in every room in which
artificial humidity is produced, two hygro-
meters, conforming to such conditions, as
regards construction and maintenance, as may

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(ii) One hygrometer shall be fixed in the centre and one at the side of each room, or in such other position as is directed or sanctioned by an inspector, so as to be plainly visible to the persons employed; (iii) A copy of the table of humidity shall be kept hanging up near to each hygrometer: (iv) The occupier or manager or other person authorised for the purpose shall read the hygrometers twice daily, namely, between 10 ten and eleven o'clock in the morning and between three and four o'clock in the afternoon on every day on which any persons are employed in the room in the morning or afternoon as the case may be, and shall record the readings 15 on the prescribed form provided for each hygrometer;

(v) The forms on which the readings of each hygrometer are recorded shall be kept hung up near the hygrometer, and when filled shall 20 be preserved at the factory for reference. The entries recorded in the form shall be primâ facie evidence of the humidity of the atmosphere and temperature in the factory :

Provided that where as respects any room 25
notice has been given in the prescribed manner
to the inspector for the district that it is intended
that the humidity of the atmosphere should
never be greater than will maintain a difference
of at least four degrees between the readings of 30
the dry and wet bulb thermometers, the pro-
visions of this and of the last preceding
paragraph shall not apply as respects that room
so long as at least that difference is maintained
and a copy of the said notice is kept posted 35
in the room:

(d) No water which is liable to cause injury to the
health of the persons employed, or to yield
effluvia, shall be used for artificial humidifi-
cation, and for the purpose of this provision 40
any water which absorbs from acid solution of
permanganate of potash in four hours at sixty
degrees more than half a grain of oxygen per
gallon of water, shall be deemed to be liable
to cause injury to the health of the persons 45
employed,

(2) The occupier of every humid factory shall, at A.D. 1924. or before the time at which artificial production of

humidity is commenced, give notice thereof in writing to the chief inspector.

rooms.

5 58.--(1) In the industries or processes to which Underground this section applies work shall not be carried on in any underground room which is certified by the inspector for the district to be unsuitable for the purpose as regards construction, light, ventilation, or in any other respect. 10 If the occupier feels aggrieved by any decision of an inspector under this section the matter shall, in accordance with rules as to procedure and costs (including the remuneration of the referee) made by the Secretary of State, be referred to the decision of a person appointed 15 (in default of agreement) by the judge of the county court having jurisdiction where the factory is situate.

(2) The foregoing provision shall not apply to any underground room used only for the purpose of storage or for any other purpose which may be excepted by 20 order of the Secretary of State.

(3) In this section the expression

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underground

room means any room which or any part of which is so situate that half or more than half the whole height thereof, measured from the floor to the ceiling, is below 25 the surface of the footway of the adjoining street or of the ground adjoining or nearest to the room.

(4) Any certificate issued under this section may be withdrawn by the inspector for the district if such alterations are made in the room as in his opinion to 30 render it suitable.

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(5) This section applies to the following industries and processes, namely:

Cabinet-making;

Glass bevelling;

Letter-press printing;

Laundry work;

Manufacture and repair of boots and shoes;
Making up of other wearing apparel;

Upholstering,

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The Secretary of State may by special order extend

the provisions of this section to industries and processes

other than those specified in this subsection.

59.-(1) A basement bakehouse shall not be used Basement 45 as a bakehouse unless it was lawfully so used at the bakehouses. date of the passing of this Act.

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Laundries.

Power to

make regula

tions for safety and health.

(2) For the purpose of this section "basement bakehouse " means a bakehouse any baking room of which

is so situate that the surface of the floor is more than three feet below the surface of the footway of the adjoining street, or of the ground adjoining or nearest to 5 the room; and "baking room" means any room used for baking, or for any process incidental thereto.

(3) The provisions of this section shall be enforced by the district council, and the provisions of Part I. of this Act as to the power to act in default of the district 10 council shall apply in the case of any default of the district council under this section.

60. In every laundry

(a) if mechanical power is used, a fan or other
efficient means shall be provided, maintained, 15
and used for regulating the temperature in
every ironing room, and for carrying away
the steam in every washhouse;

(b) all stoves for heating irons shall be sufficiently
separated from any ironing room or ironing 20
table, and gas irons emitting any noxious
fumes shall not be used.

Regulations.

61.-(1) Where the Secretary of State is satisfied that any manufacture, machinery, plant, process, or de- 25 scription of manual labour, used in factories is of such a nature as to require special measures to be taken for securing the safety or health of the persons employed in connexion therewith, or any class of those persons he may, subject to the provisions of this Act, make such regula- 30 tions as appear to him to be reasonably practicable and to meet the necessity of the case.

(2) Regulations so made may apply to all the factories in which the manufacture, machinery, plant, process, or description of manual labour is used (whether existing at 35 the time when the regulations are made or afterwards established) or to any specified class or description of such factories. They may provide for the exemption of any specified class or description of factories either absolutely or subject to conditions.

(3) Regulations so made may apply to tenement factories and in such in such case may impose duties on occupiers who do not employ any person.

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