PART II.

SECTION 2 (2) OF THE FACTORY AND WORKSHOP ACT, 1901,

AS CONTINUED IN FORCE.

2.-(2) Every workplace within the meaning of 5 the Public Health Act, 1875, must be kept free from effluvia arising from any drain, watercloset, earth-closet, privy, urinal, or other nuisance, and unless so kept shall be deemed to be a nuisance liable to be dealt with summarily under the law relating to public health.

A.D. 1926.

3RD SCH. -cont.

PROVISIONS OF THE FACTORY AND WORKSHOP ACT, 1901,
ADMINISTERED BY THE MINISTER OF HEALTH.

61. An occupier of a factory shall not knowingly allow a Prohibition woman or girl to be employed therein within four weeks after of employ 15 she has given birth to a child.

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ment of women after childbirth.

regulations

97.-(1) It shall not be lawful to let or suffer to be Sanitary occupied or to occupy any room or place as a bakehouse, unless the following regulations are complied with :

(a) A watercloset, earthcloset, privy, or ashpit must not be
within or communicate directly with the bakehouse;
(b) Every cistern for supplying water to the bakehouse.
must be separate and distinct from any cistern for
supplying water to a watercloset;

(c) A drain or pipe for carrying off fæcal or sewage matter
must not have an opening within the bakehouse.

(2) If any person lets or suffers to be occupied or occupies any room or place as a bakehouse in contravention of this section he shall be guilty of an offence, and liable to a fine not excceding forty shillings, and to a further fine not exceeding five shillings 30 for every day during which any room or place is so occupied after a conviction under this section.

for bakehouses.

Penalty for

bakehouse being unfit on sanitary

98.-(1) Where a court of summary jurisdiction is satisfied on the prosecution of an inspector or a district council that any room or place used as a bakehouse is in such a state as to be on 35 sanitary grounds unfit for use or occupation as a bakehouse, the occupier of the bakehouse shall be liable to a fine not exceeding, grounds. for the first offence, forty shillings, and for any subsequent offence five pounds.

A.D. 1926.

4TH SCH. -cont.

Colourwashing, painting, and washing

of bakehouses.

Provision as to sleeping places near bakehouses.

Making of wearing apparel where there is scarlet fever or small-pox.

(2) The court of summary jurisdiction, in addition to or instead of inflicting a fine, may order means to be adopted by the occupier, within the time named in the order, for the purpose of removing the ground of complaint. The court may, on application, enlarge the time so named, but if after the 5 expiration of the time as originally named or enlarged by subsequent order the order is not complied with, the occupier shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one pound for every day that the non-compliance continues.

99.-(1) All the inside walls of the rooms of a bakehouse, 10 and all the ceiling or tops of those rooms (whether those walls, ceilings, or tops are plastered or not), and all the passages and staircases of a bakehouse, must either be painted with oil or varnished or be colourwashed, or be partly painted or varnished and partly colourwashed; and

(a) where the bakehouse is painted with oil or varnished,
there must be three coats of paint or varnish, and the
paint or varnish must be renewed once at least in
every seven years, and must be washed with hot water
and soap once at least in every six months; and
(b) where the bakehouse is limewashed, the limewashing
must be renewed once at least in every six months.
100.-(1) A place on the same level with a bakehouse, and
forming part of the same building, may not be used as a sleeping
place, unless it is constructed as follows; that is to say

(a) is effectually separated from the bakehouse by a par-
tition extending from the floor to the ceiling; and
(b) has an external glazed window of at least nine super-
ficial feet in area, of which at the least four and a half
superficial feet are made to open for ventilation.

(2) If any person lets or occupies or continues to let or knowingly suffers to be occupied any place contrary to this section, he shall be guilty of an offence, and liable to a fine not exceeding, for the first offence, twenty shillings, and for any subsequent offence five pounds.

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109. If the occupier of a factory or of any place from which any work is given out, or any contractor employed by any such occupier, causes or allows wearing apparel to be made, cleaned, or repaired, in any dwelling-house or building occupied therewith, whilst any inmate of the dwelling-house is suffering 40 from scarlet fever or small-pox, then, unless he proves that he was not aware of the existence of the illness in the dwellinghouse, and could not reasonably have been expected to become aware of it, he shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding ten pounds.

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4TH SCH. -cont.

Prohibition of home

110.-(1) If any inmate of a house is suffering from an A.D. 1926. infectious disease to which this section applies, the district council of the district in which the house is situate may make an order forbidding any work to which this section applies to 5 be given out to any person living or working in that house, or such part thereof as may be specified in the order, and any order work in so made may be served on the occupier of any factory, or any places where other place from which work is given out, or on the contractor there is employed by any such occupier.

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(2) The order may be made notwithstanding that the person suffering from an infectious disease may have been removed from the house, and the order shall be made either for a specified time or subject to the condition that the house or part thereof liable to be infected shall be disinfected to the satisfaction of 15 the medical officer of health, or that other reasonable precautions shall be adopted.

(3) In any case of urgency the powers conferred on the district council by this section may be exercised by any two or more members of the council acting on the advice of the medical 20 officer of health.

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(4) If any occupier or contractor on whom an order under this section has been served contravenes the provisions of the order, he shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding ten pounds.

(5) The infectious diseases to which this section applies are the infectious diseases required to be notified under the law for the time being in force in relation to the notification of infectious diseases, and the work to which this section applies is the making, cleaning, washing, altering, ornamenting, finishing and 30 repairing of wearing apparel and any work incidental thereto, and such other classes of work as may be specified by order of the Minister of Health.

infectious

disease.

provisions of Part I.

10. Powers of inspector

as to to sanitary defects. remediable by district council.

11. Powers in case of default of a district council. 12. Power to make orders for special medical supervision.

Hoists and lifts.

22. Chains, ropes and cranes.

23.

Construction and maintenance of passages and stairs.

24. Safe means of access.