A.D. 1924.

Repeals.

officer means the medical officer appointed by the parish council; the expression

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Births

and Deaths Regulation Acts, 1836 to 1901," means the Births Deaths and Marriages (Scotland) Acts, 1854 to 1910; references to a justice or to 5 a superintendent registrar shall not apply.

(5) The section of this Act relating to inquest in case of death by accident or industrial disease in factory shall not apply.

(6) All matters required by this Act to be published 10
in the London Gazette shall, if they relate to
Scotland, be published in the Edinburgh Gazette
either in addition or in substitution as the case
may require.

(7) All offences under this Act shall be prosecuted 15
and all penalties under this Act shall be recovered
under the provisions of the Summary Jurisdiction
(Scotland) Acts at the instance of the procurator
fiscal or of any inspector.

(8) The court may make and may alter or vary 20
summary orders under this Act on application

by the procurator fiscal or by an inspector
presented in common form.

(9) It shall not be an objection to the competency
of an inspector to give evidence as a witness in 25
any prosecution for an offence against this Act
that the prosecution is brought at his instance.
(10) Every person convicted of an offence against
this Act may be found liable in expenses.

142. Subject to the provisions of this section the 30
enactments referred to in Part I. of the Third Schedule
to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent specified
in the third column of that Schedule:

Provided that

(a) The foregoing repeal shall not affect the 35
operation of any enactments repealed by this
Act, so far as those enactments apply to any
quarries or pit banks as defined by the Factory
and Workshop Act, 1901; and

(b) any order, regulation, requirement, appoint- 40
ment,or agreement made or certificate or notice
given under any enactment repealed by this

Act shall continue in force as though it had A.D. 1924.
been made or given under the corresponding
provision of this Act; and

(c) the regulations made by the Secretary of
State under the Factory and Workshop (Cotton
Cloth Factories) Act, 1911, and in force at
the date of the commencement of this Act,
shall continue in force as though they were
regulations made under Part IV. of this
Act but with the modification that fifty
degrees during the first half hour of work
and fifty-five degrees thereafter shall be
substituted as the minimum temperature to
be maintained in every humid and dry shed;
and

(d) Subsection (2) of section two of the Factory
and Workshop Act, 1901, as set out in Part II.
of the Third Schedule to this Act, shall
continue in force as respects work places
within the meaning of the Public Health Act,
1875; and

(e) the provisions of the Factory and Workshop
Act, 1901, which are set out with the necessary
modifications in the Fourth Schedule to this
Act (being provisions the administration of
which has under the Ministry of Health Act,
1919, and the Scottish Board of Health Act,
1919, been transferred to the Minister of
Health in England and Wales and to the
Scottish Board of Health in Scotland), shall
continue in force as though enacted in this
Act, and shall continue to be so administered;
but the Minister of Health or in Scotland the
Scottish Board of Health may by order,
delegate any powers under the said provisions
to such local authorities as he or they may
think proper.

143.-(1) This Act may be cited as the Factories Short title, Act, 1924.

commencement and

(2) This Act shall come into operation on the first extent. day of January, nineteen hundred and twenty-five.

(3) This Act shall not except where otherwise expressly provided extend to Northern Ireland.

A.D. 1924.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

1. Before the Secretary of State makes any regulations he shall publish, in such manner as he may think best adapted for informing persons affected, notice of the proposal to make the regulations, and of the place where copies of the draft regula- 5 tions may be obtained, and of the time (which shall be not less than twenty-one days) within which any objection made with respect to the draft regulations by or on behalf of persons affected must be sent to the Secretary of State.

2. Every objection must be in writing and state

(a) the draft regulations or portions of draft regulations objected to;

(b) the specific grounds of objection; and

(c) the omissions, additions, or modifications asked for.

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3. The Secretary of State shall consider any objection made 15 by or on behalf of any persons appearing to him to be affected which is sent to him within the required time, and he may, if he thinks fit, amend the draft regulations, and shall then cause the amended draft to be dealt with in like manner as an original draft.

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4. Where the majority of the occupiers of the factories. affected by the proposed regulations dispute the reasonableness of the requirements in the proposed regulations, and the Secretary of State does not amend or withdraw the draft regulations, he shall before making the regulations direct an 25 inquiry to be held in the manner hereinafter provided. The Secretary of State may also direct an inquiry to be held in regard to any objection, though not made by the majority of the occupiers, if he thinks desirable.

5. The Secretary of State may appoint a competent person 30 to hold an inquiry with regard to any draft regulations, and to report to him thereon.

6. The inquiry shall be held in public, and the chief inspector and any objector and any other person who, in the opinion of the person holding the inquiry, is affected by the 35 draft regulations, may appear at the inquiry either in person or by counsel, solicitor, or agent.

7. The witnesses on the inquiry may, if the person holding it thinks fit, be examined on oath.

8. Subject as aforesaid, the inquiry and all proceedings 40 preliminary and incidental thereto shall be conducted in accordance with rules made by the Secretary of State.