A.D. 1926.

Duty of appointed doctor to investigate and report in certain cases.

(2) The Secretary of State may cause the report of the court to be made public at such time and in such manner as he may think fit.

70.-(1) It shall be the duty of the appointed doctor to investigate and report—

(a) upon cases of death or injury caused by exposure to fumes or other noxious substances, or due to any other special cause specified in instructions of the Secretary of State as requiring investigation; and

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(b) upon any case of death or injury which the
inspector for the district in pursuance of any
general or special instructions of the Secretary
of State may refer to him for that purpose; and
(c) upon any case of disease of which notice is sent 15
under this Act.

(2) The appointed doctor, for the purpose of an investigation under this section, shall have the same powers as an inspector, and shall also have power to enter any room in a building to which the person killed, 20 injured, or affected has been removed.

Prohibition

PART VI.

EMPLOYMENT (WOMEN, YOUNG PERSONS AND
CHILDREN).

Prohibition of Employment of Children.

71. (1) A child shall not be employed in a factory

of employ- or about the business of any factory.

ment of children.

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(2) The provisions of this section shall be in addition to and not in derogation of any provisions contained in the Education Act, 1918, the Education (Scotland) 30 Act, 1918, or any other enactment prohibiting the employment in a factory of persons who are under an obligation to attend school, and references in those provisions to the Factory and Workshop Acts, 1901 to 1911, shall be construed as references to this Act.

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Hours and Holidays.

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hours of em

72.-(1) Subject to the special exceptions allowed General conunder this Part of this Act the period of employment ditions as to and intervals for meals and rest for every woman or ployment of 5 young person employed in a factory shall conform with the following conditions, namely :

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(a) the total hours worked, exclusive of intervals
allowed for meals and rest, shall not exceed nine
in any day or forty-eight in any week;
(b) the period of employment shall not exceed eleven
hours in any day and shall not begin earlier
than six o'clock in the morning and shall not
end later than eight o'clock in the evening, or,
on Saturday, two o'clock in the afternoon;
(c) a woman or young person shall not be employed
continuously for a spell of more than four and
a half hours without an interval of at least half
an hour for a meal:

Provided that where a rest interval of not less
than fifteen minutes is allowed in the course of
a spell, the spell may be increased by the length
of the interval so allowed;

(d) a woman or young person shall not be employed
during any interval allowed for meals or rest;
(e) the period of employment and intervals allowed
for meals and rest shall be the same for all
women and young persons employed in the
factory.

(2) For the purposes of this Part of this Act-
(a) "period of employment" means the period
on any day between the hour at which the
employment first commences and the hour at
which the employment finally ends; and
(b) employment shall be deemed to be continuous
unless interrupted by an interval of at least
half an hour.

(3) The foregoing provisions shall not apply to any person holding a responsible position of management, and not usually employed in manual labour.

women and young per

sons.

A.D. 1926. Notice fix

ing hours of employment.

Restriction of employment inside and outside

factory on same day.

Prohibition of use of

certain rooms during meal times.

Prohibition

of Sunday

employment.

73.-(1) The occupier shall fix within the limits allowed by this Part of this Act, and shall specify in a notice which shall be affixed in the factory

(a) the period of employment for the women and young persons employed in the factory;

(b) the intervals allowed for meals or rest to such women and young persons;

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and, subject to the special exceptions allowed under this Part of this Act, no woman or young person shall be employed otherwise than in accordance with the notice. 10

(2) Different periods of employment and different intervals may be fixed for different days of the week.

(3). A change in the said periods or intervals shall not be made until the occupier has served on the inspector for the district, and affixed in the factory, notice of his 15 intention to make the change, and shall not be made oftener than once in three months, unless for special cause allowed in writing by the inspector.

(4) Where an inspector, by notice in writing, names a public clock, or some other clock open to public view, for 20 the purpose, the period of employment and the intervals allowed for meals or rest in that factory shall be regulated by that clock.

74.-(1) A woman or young person shall not, except during the period of employment, be employed by the 25 occupier outside the factory on any day during which the woman or young person is employed in the factory.

(2) For the purposes of this section a woman or young person to or for whom any work is given out or who takes out any work to be done by him or her 30 outside a factory, shall be deemed to be employed outside the factory on the day on which the work is so given or taken out.

75. Subject to the special exceptions allowed under this Part of this Act, a woman or young person shall not 35 during any part of the intervals allowed for meals be allowed to remain in a room in which a process is then being carried on.

76. A woman or young person shall not (subject to the special exceptions allowed under this Part of this Act) 40 be employed on Sunday in a factory or about the business of a factory.

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77.-(1) Subject to the special exceptions allowed A.D. 1926. under this Part of this Act, the occupier of a factory Annual shall allow in each year to every woman and young person employed in the factory the following holidays :

In England and Wales

the whole of Christmas Day, Good Friday, and every
bank holiday, unless, in lieu of any of those days,
another whole holiday, fixed by the occupier, be
allowed;

In Scotland—

(a) In burglis, as whole holidays, the two days,
set apart by the Church of Scotland for the
observance of the sacramental fast in the parish,
or, if those fast days have been abolished or
discontinued, two days, not less than three
months apart, to be fixed by the town council;
elsewhere, two whole holidays, not less than
three months apart, fixed by the occupier;
and

(b) Four whole holidays fixed by the occupier.
(2) At least half of the said whole holidays shall be
allowed between the fifteenth day of March and the first
day of October in every year.

(3) A notice of every whole holiday shall be affixed 25 in the factory not less than four weeks before the holiday and unless the notice has been so affixed cessation from work on that day shall not be deemed to be a whole holiday : Provided that no such notice shall be required in England or Wales if the whole holiday is Christmas Day 30 or Good Friday or a bank holiday.

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(4) A woman or young person shall not be employed in the factory or about the business of the factory on a whole holiday fixed by or in pursuance of this section.

Special Exceptions.

holidays.

78. The period of employment in the case of a male Exception young person who has attained the age of sixteen years relating to may begin at five o'clock in the morning in that part of male young a bakehouse in which the process of bread baking is carried on.

persons employed in bakehouses.

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79. The provisions of this Part of this Act which Exceptions require that all the women and young persons employed in a factory shall have the intervals allowed for meals or rest at the same hour of the day shall not apply

as to simultaneous hours for meals and

rest.

Exceptions

as to em

ployment during

intervals.

Exceptions

as to use of certain

rooms during meal times.

(a) to persons employed in any process on which by 5 reason of the nature thereof work requires to be carried on continuously; or

(b) to different sets of persons employed on different

processes:

Provided that all persons employed in the 10
same set have their intervals for meals and
rest at the same time, and that, if the inspector
for the district so require, a list of women or
young persons employed in the factory, or in
any set in the factory, and the times allowed 15
for meals or rest for each set shall be affixed
in the factory;

(c) where a mess-room or canteen is provided and
maintained by the occupier to the satisfaction of
the inspector for the district and it is necessary to 20
divide the persons employed into sets for the
purpose of taking meals therein; or

(d) where the Secretary of State on being satisfied
as respects any class or description of factories
or parts of factories that it is necessary by reason 25
of any special circumstances to except factories
of such class or description or such parts thereof
from those provisions, and that the exception
can be made without injury to the health of the
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makes a special order excepting the same.

80. The provisions of this Part of this Act with respect to the prohibition of employment during any interval allowed for meals or rest shall not apply to any male young persons employed in the manufacture of 35 wrought iron, steel or tinplate, or in the manufacture of paper or in the melting, blowing or annealing of glass.

81. The provisions of this Part of this Act with respect to the prohibition of the use of certain rooms during meal times shall not apply

(a) where persons are employed in any process on which by reason of the nature thereof work requires to be carried on continuously; or

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