5 10 (b) where different sets of persons are employed on A.D. 1926. (c) where the Secretary of State on being satisfied as same. as to fish 82.-(1) The provisions of this Part of this Act Exceptions 15 prescribing the general conditions as to hours of employment and those relating to annual holidays shall not apply and fruit to women and young persons employed in processes connected with 20 25 (a) the preserving and curing of fish; or (b) the cleaning and preparing of fruit during the months of June, July, August, and September, where such processes require to be carried out immediately on the arrival of the goods at the factory in order to prevent them from being spoiled. (2) The exceptions to which this section applies shall be subject to such conditions as the Secretary of State may by special order prescribe. preserving. 83. In the case of creameries or other factories in Exceptions. which milk is treated, or in which any food product is as to cream30 manufactured from milk, the Secretary of State may, if and so far as it appears to him to be necessary for the preservation of the milk or any product thereof, by special order vary the conditions as to hours of employment and holidays applicable to women and young persons 35 and allow their employment on Sundays: Provided that the hours worked in any week by any such woman or young person shall not exceed the total number of hours allowed by this Act. eries. 84.-(1) Where it is proved to the satisfaction of Exception 40 the Secretary of State that the customs or exigencies of as to Saturday. the trade carried on in any class or description of factories, either generally or in any particular locality, require some other day in the week to be substituted for Saturday A.D. 1926. as the short day, he may, by special order, grant to factories of that class or description a special exception, authorising the occupier of every such factory to substitute some other day for Saturday, and in that case this Part of this Act shall apply in the factory as if the 5 substituted day were Saturday, and Saturday were an ordinary work day. Exception as to Sundays and Saturdays in Jewish factories. Exceptions as to overtime. (2) In the case of newspaper printing offices, the Secretary of State may by such order authorise the substitution of some other day for Saturday in respect of 10 some of the young persons therein employed, and in the case of factories the work in which by reason of the nature thereof requires to be carried on on six full working days in the week the Secretary of State may by such order authorise the substitution of some other day 15 for Saturday in respect of some of the women or young persons therein employed. 85. Where the occupier of a factory is a person of the Jewish religion, a woman or young person of the Jewish religion may be employed on Sunday, subject to 20 the condition that the factory must be closed on Saturday and must not be open for traffic on Sunday. Where the occupier avails himself of this exception, this Part of this Act shall, as respects women and young persons of the Jewish religion, apply to the factory in 25 like manner as if in the provisions thereof respecting Sunday the word Saturday were substituted for Sunday, and in the provisions thereof respecting Saturday the word Sunday, or, if the occupier so elects, the word Friday, were substituted for Saturday. 30 86.-(1) It shall be lawful for the Secretary of State, if he thinks fit, on an application being made by a joint industrial council, trade board, organisation of employers or trade union or, where no such organisation or trade union exists, by any person or persons directly 35 concerned, or if he considers it advisable to do so as regards any such class of employment without any such application, to make a special order allowing the overtime employment of women on any day except the short day. subject to the following conditions: (a) The period of employment (including the overtime) shall not exceed twelve hours, and the total hours worked (including the overtime) shall not exceed ten on any day; 40 5 10 15 20 25 30 (b) The overtime worked in pursuance of this section A.D. 1926. as respect the several classes of employment to (2) The classes of employment to which this section applies are employment in industries (a) which are liable to extra pressure of work at (c) in which the work may require to be done (3) The overtime worked in pursuance of this section shall not exceed (a) in the case of the classes of employment specified (c) in the case of the classes of employment specified (4) The Secretary of State shall not make an order under this section unless he is satisfied that the effect of the order will not be to affect prejudicially the health of the women to whom the order relates. sons over 87.--(1) Male young persons who have attained the Exceptions 35 age of sixteen may be employed on a system of shifts as to male outside the hours specified in this Part of this Act for young perthe commencement and end of the period of employment, sixteen in the industries or processes and subject to the conditions employed in hereinafter specified, on work which by reason of the shifts. 40 nature of the industry or process requires to be carried on continuously day and night, and any such shift may end on Sunday morning not later than six or begin on Sunday evening not earlier than ten. A.D. 1926. Provision for protection of women and young per. sons em (2) The industries and processes to which this section applies are: the smelting of iron ore; the manufacture of wrought iron, steel or tin-plate; processes in which reverberatory or regenerative 5 furnaces are used in connection with smelting of ores, metal rolling, forges, manufacture of metal tubes or rods, or such other classes of work as may be specified by order of the Secretary of State, and are necessarily kept in operation day 10 and night in order to avoid waste of material and fuel; the galvanising of sheet metal or wire (except the the manufacture of glass; 15 (3) The conditions above referred to are as follows:--- (b) a period of not less than sixteen hours shall (c) no male young person shall be employed between 25 twelve midnight and six o'clock in the morning in two consecutive weeks. (4) Nothing in this Act shall prevent the employment of male young persons between the ages of fourteen and sixteen in two-day shifts in those industries in which 30 they could be lawfully so employed at the date of the commencement of this Act under section fifty-four of the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, and the Secretary of State may, by order, direct that such conditions as he may consider necessary for the purpose of safeguarding 35 the welfare and interests of the persons employed shall apply to such employment. 88. Where it appears to the Secretary of State that the adoption of any special provision is required for the protection of the health of women or young persons 40 ployed under employed in pursuance of a special exception under this Part of this Act, he may by special order direct that the adoption of the provision shall be a condition of such employment. exceptions. 89.-(1) An occupier of a factory, not less than A.D. 1926. seven days before he avails himself of any special exNotices, ception under this Part of this Act, shall serve on the registers, &c. inspector for the district, and affix in his factory, notice 5 in the prescribed form of his intention so to avail himself, special and whilst he avails himself of the exception shall keep exceptions. the notice so affixed. (2) Before the service of the notice on the inspector the special exception shall not be deemed to apply to the 10 factory, and after the service of the notice on the inspector it shall not be competent in any proceeding under this Act for the occupier to prove that the exception does not apply to his factory, unless before the event in respect of which the proceedings are taken he had 15 previously served on the inspector for the district notice that he no longer intended to avail himself of the exception. (3) The notice so served and affixed must specify the hours for the beginning and end of the period of 20 employment, and the intervals to be allowed for meals or rest to every woman and young person, where they differ from the ordinary hours or intervals. (4) An occupier of a factory shall enter in the prescribed register and report to the inspector for the district 25 the prescribed particulars respecting the employment of a woman or young person in pursuance of a special exception; and, in the case of overtime employment, he shall also cause a notice containing the prescribed particulars respecting the employment to be kept affixed in 30 the factory during the prescribed time, and shall send the report to the inspector and make the entry in the register before the commencement of the overtime employment, and the report shall be primâ facie evidence in any proceedings under this Act that the occupier has in fact 35 employed persons overtime in accordance with the report. relating to visions of 90. The Secretary of State may, in the event of Power to accident, or breakdown of machinery or plant, or other suspend unforeseen emergency, make an order suspending any of certain prothe provisions of this Part of this Act as to hours and Part VI. in 40 holidays for such period as may be specified in the order, emergency. but so far only as may be necessary to avoid serious interference with the ordinary working of the factory. |