(Registration). 5 11. (1) This Act may be cited as the Nursing A.D. 1927. Homes Registration Act, 1927. Short title, (2) This Act shall not apply to Scotland or Northern extent, reIreland. ment. peal and (3) Subject as hereinafter provided, so much of commenceany local Act as makes provision for the registration of any maternity home is hereby repealed, and the enactments mentioned in the Schedule to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of 10 that Schedule: Provided that any person who is immediately before the commencement of this Act registered under any enactment repealed by this Act in respect of any maternity home, shall if the authority with which he is regis15 tered under the said repealed enactment is for the purposes of this Act the local supervising authority of the area in which the home is situate, be deemed for all the purposes of this Act to be as from the commencement of this Act, a person duly registered thereunder in respect of that 20 home. (4) This Act shall come into operation on the first day of January, nineteen hundred and twenty-eight. (Registration). BILL [AS AMENDED BY STANDING COMMITTEE A] To provide for the registration and inspection of nursing homes, and for purposes connected therewith. Presented by Mrs. Philipson, supported by Mr. Gerald Hurst, Sir Basil Peto, Major Hills, Mr. Hore-Belisha, Colonel Crookshank, and Ordered, by The House of Commons, to be Printed, 26 July 1927. To be purchased directly from H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE at the following addresses: 120, George Street, Edinburgh; York Street, Manchester; 1, St. Andrew's Crescent, Cardiff; 15, Donegall Square West, Belfast; or through any Bookseller. ARRANGEMENT OF CLAUSES. Clause. 1. Sanitary condition of offices. 2. Overcrowding in offices. 3. Underground offices. 4. Sanitary conveniences and lavatories. 5. Rest rooms. 6. Provision of means of escape in case of fire. 7. Byelaws for means of escape from fire. 8. Doors of offices to open from inside. 9. Restriction of period of employment. 10. Notice of occupation of office. 11. Affixing of abstract and notice. 12. General registers. 13. Periodical return of persons employed. 14. Local sanitary authority to carry out Act. 15. Appointment of inspectors and other persons for the performance of duties under this Act. 16. Complaints. 17. Fine for not keeping office in conformity with Act. 18. Limit to cumulative fines. 19. Prosecution of offences and recovery and applica. tion of fines. 20. General definitions. 21. Application of Act to Scotland. 22. Application of Act to London. 23. Offices occupied or used for employment by or under the Crown or in a police force. 24. Short title and commencement. A BILL ΤΟ Regulate offices and the employment of young A.D. 1927. persons therein, and for other purposes connected therewith. E it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, 5 as follows: 10 15 20 1. (1) The following provisions shall apply to Sanitary every office as defined by this Act: (a) It shall be kept in a cleanly state; (c) It shall not be so overcrowded while work is (f) It shall be provided with an adequate supply of (g) Adequate measures shall be taken both by day condition of offices. |