(4) No person shall be precluded by any agreement A.D. 1924. from doing, or be liable under any agreement to any penalty or forfeiture for doing, such acts as may be necessary in order to comply with the provisions of any 5 regulation so made. 10 15 (5) Regulations so made may, among other things,— the period of employment of, all persons or (b) prohibit, limit, or control the use of any (c) modify or extend any provisions of this Part of and may impose duties on owners, managers and workers (6) The provisions contained in the Second Schedule 20 to this Act shall apply to regulations made under this section. Supplementary Provisions. prohibited 62. (1) Where by any regulations made under this Importation Act the use of any material or process is prohibited, of articles 25 His Majesty may by Order in Council prohibit the made with importation into Great Britain or Northern Ireland of materials. any articles in the manufacture of which the material or process has been employed. (2) It shall not be lawful to import into Great 30 Britain or Northern Ireland matches made with white phosphorus. (3) Any article the importation of which is prohibited by or under this section shall be deemed to be included amongst the goods enumerated and described 35 in the table of prohibitions and restrictions contained in section forty-two of the Customs Consolidation Act, 1876. 63.-(1) It shall not be lawful for any person to sell Sale and imor to offer or expose for sale, or to have in his possession portation of 40 for the purposes of sale, any matches made with white certain phosphorus, and, if any person contravenes the provisions &c. of this section, he shall be guilty of an offence and liable materials, A.D. 1924. to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds, and shall forfeit any such matches in his possession, and any matches so forfeited shall be destroyed or otherwise dealt with as the court may think fit. Power to take samples. (2) Where under any regulations made under this 5 Act the use of any material or process is prohibited, and the importation of any article in the manufacture of which the material or process has been employed is prohibited, the Secretary of State may by order extend the provisions of this section to any such article. 64.-(1) An inspector may at any time take for analysis sufficient samples of any material in use or mixed for use in the manufacture of matches. 10 (2) An inspector may at any timè take for analysis sufficient samples of any substance used in a factory 15 which he suspects to be used in contravention of any regulation made under this Part of this Act, or to be injurious to the persons employed. (3) If the occupier of a factory refuses to allow an inspector to take samples in pursuance of this section, 20 or to give him facilities for the purpose, he shall be deemed to have obstructed the inspector in the execution of his duties: Provided that the occupier may, at the time when a sample is taken under this section, and on providing the 25 necessary appliances, require the inspector to divide the sample into two parts and to mark and seal and deliver to him one such part. (4) A certificate purporting to be a certificate by the Government Chemist at the Government laboratory as to 30 the result of an analysis of a sample under this section shall in any proceedings under this Act be evidence of the matters stated therein, but either party may require the person by whom the analysis was made to be called as a witness. 35 (5) It shall not be lawful for any person, except in so far as is necessary for the purposes of a prosecution for an offence under this Act, to publish or disclose to any person the results of an analysis made under this section. If any person acts in contravention of this 40 provision he shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds. PART V. NOTIFICATION AND INVESTIGATION OF ACCIDENTS AND A.D. 1924. 65.-(1) Where any accident occurs which Notification 5 either (a) causes loss of life to a person employed; or (b) disables any such person for more than three 10 written notice of the accident, in the prescribed form and (2) Where loss of life has immediately resulted from an accident, the place where the accident occurred shall 15 be left as it was immediately after the accident, until the expiration of at least three days after the sending of such notice as aforesaid of the accident, or until the visit to the place by an inspector, whichever first happens, unless compliance with this enactment would tend to increase or 20 continue the danger or would seriously impede the carrying on of business at the factory. (3) Where any accident causing disablement is notified under this section, and after notification thereof results in the death of the person disabled, notice in writing 25 of the death shall be sent to the inspector for the district as soon as the death comes to the knowledge of the occupier of the factory. (4) Where any accident to which this section applies occurs to a person employed and the occupier of the 30 factory is not the actual employer of the person killed or injured, the actual employer shall immediately report the same to the occupier, and in default shall be guilty of an offence, and liable to a fine not exceeding five pounds. of accidents in factories. extend provisions as to notice of 35 66.--(1) If the Secretary of State considers that, Power to by reason of the risk of serious injury to persons employed, it is expedient that notice should be given under the foregoing section of this Act in every case of any special class of explosion, fire, collapse of buildings, dangerous 40 accidents to machinery or plant, or other occurrences occurrences. in a factory, the Secretary of State may by order accidents or A.D. 1924. extend the provisions of that section to any such class of occurrences, whether death or disablement is caused or not. Notification of industrial diseases. (2) The Secretary of State may by any such order allow the required notice of any occurrence to which 5 the order relates, instead of being sent forthwith, to be sent within the time limited by the order. 67.-(1) Every medical practitioner attending on or called in to visit a patient whom he believes to be suffering from lead, phosphorus, arsenical or mercurial 10 poisoning, or anthrax, contracted in any factory, shall (unless such a notice has been previously sent) send to the chief inspector of factories at the Home Office, London, a notice stating the name and full postal address of the patient and the disease from which, in the opinion of 15 the medical practitioner, the patient is suffering, and the name and address of the factory in which he is employed or in which the disease was contracted, and shall be entitled in respect of every notice sent in pursuance of this section to a fee of two shillings and sixpence, to be 20 paid as part of the expenses incurred by the Secretary of State in the execution of this Act. (2) If any medical practitioner, when required by this section to send a notice, fails forthwith to send the same, he shall be guilty of an offence, and liable 25 to a fine not exceeding forty shillings. (3) Written notice of every case of lead, phosphorus, or arsenical or mercurial poisoning, or anthrax, occurring in a factory shall forthwith be sent by the occupier in the prescribed form and accompanied by the 30 prescribed particulars to the inspector for the district. (4) The Secretary of State may, by special order, apply the provisions of this section to any other disease contracted in a factory. Inquest in 68.-(1) Where a coroner holds an inquest on 35 case of death the body of any person whose death may have been by accident caused by any accident or disease of which notice is required to be given by this Part of this Act, the coroner shall adjourn the inquest unless an inspector or some person on behalf of the Secretary of State is present to 40 watch the proceedings. or industrial disease in factory. 5 (2) The coroner, at least four days before holding A.D. 1924. the adjourned inquest, shall send to the inspector for the district notice in writing of the time and place of holding the adjourned inquest. (3) The coroner, before the adjournment, may take evidence to identify the body, and may order the interment thereof. (4) If the inquest relates to the death of not more than one person, and the coroner has sent to the 10 inspector notice of the time and place of holding the inquest at such time as to reach the inspector not less than twenty-four hours before the time of holding the same, it shall not be imperative on him to adjourn the inquest in pursuance of this section if the majority 15 of the jury think it unnecessary so to adjourn. (5) An inspector shall be at liberty at any such inquest to examine any witness, subject nevertheless to the power of the coroner to disallow any question which, in his opinion, is not relevant or is otherwise not a proper 20 question. (6) Where evidence is given at an inquest at which an inspector is not present of any neglect as having caused or contributed to the accident or disease, or of any defect in or about the factory appearing to the 25 coroner or jury to require a remedy, the coroner shall send to the inspector for the district notice in writing of such neglect or defect. (7) Any person having a personal interest in or employed in or about or in the management of the 30 factory in or about which the accident or disease occurred or was contracted shall not be qualified to serve on the jury empannelled on the inquest; and it shall be the duty of the constable or other officer not to summon any person disqualified under this provision, and it shall 35 be the duty of the coroner not to allow any such person to be sworn or to sit on the jury. (8) Any relative of any person in respect of whose death the inquest is being held, and the occupier of the factory in which the accident or disease occurred or was 40 contracted, and any person appointed by the order in writing of the majority of the persons employed in the factory, and any person appointed in writing by any association of persons to which the deceased at the time of |