5 10 15 20 25 25 "Ship," "vessel," and "harbour" have the same A.D. 1926. meaning as in the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894 : Steam boiler" means any closed vessel in which "Steam receiver " means any vessel or apparatus purposes: "Transmission machinery means every shaft, wheel, "Woman" means a woman who has attained the "Young person means a person who has attained the age of fourteen but has not attained the age of eighteen. (2) A woman, young person, or child who works in a factory, whether for wages or not, either in a process or in cleaning any part of the factory used for any process, or in cleaning or oiling any part of the machinery, 30 or in any other kind of work whatsoever incidental to or connected with the process, or connected with the article made or otherwise the subject of the process therein, shall, save as is otherwise provided by this Act, be deemed to be employed therein within the meaning 35 of this Act. (3) For the purposes of this Act an apprentice shall be deemed to be a person employed. (4) Where any operation or thing is required under this Act to be performed or done at specified intervals, 40 each such interval shall be deemed to commence as from the date on which the operation or thing was last performed or done. A.D. 1926. Application to factories belonging to the Crown and public authorities. Inspection of certain premises. PART, XIV. SUPPLEMENTARY. 133.-(1) This Act applies to factories belonging to the Crown and to building operations and engineering works undertaken by or on behalf of the Crown; but 5 in case of any public emergency the Secretary of State may, by order, to the extent and during the period named by him, exempt from this Act any factory belonging to the Crown or any building operation or engineering work undertaken by or on behalf of the 10 Crown, or any factory in respect of work which is being done on behalf of the Crown under a contract specified in the order. (2) A factory belonging to or in the occupation of the Crown or any municipal or other public authority, 15 and a building operation or engineering work undertaken by or on behalf of the Crown or any such authority, shall not be excluded from the operation of this Act by reason only that it is not carried on or undertaken by way of trade or business or for the purpose of gain. 20 (3) The powers conferred by this Act on a district council shall, in the case of a factory belonging to or in the occupation of the Crown, be exercised by an inspector under this Act; and any notice required by this Act to be sent to a district council shall in any 25 such case be sent to the inspector for the district. 134. Where in any premises which are subject to inspection by or under the authority of any Government department any manual labour is exercised, otherwise than for the purposes of instruction, in or incidental to 30 the making, altering, repairing, ornamenting, finishing, washing, cleaning, or adapting for sale, of any article, and the premises do not constitute a factory by reason that the work carried on therein is not carried on by way of trade or for the purposes of gain, or by reason that 35 the persons employed in the work are not working under a contract of service or apprenticeship, the Secretary of State may arrange with the department that the premises shall, as respects the matters dealt with by this Act, be inspected by an inspector appointed under this Act, and 40 where such an arrangement is made, such inspectors shall have, as respects such matters as aforesaid, the 10 15 like right of entry and inspection as is conferred on inspectors of the department concerned. A.D. 1926. 135. The expenses of the Secretary of State in Expenses of carrying this Act into effect shall be defrayed out of Secretary 5 moneys provided by Parliament. 20 25 30 35 10 of State. 136. This Act shall apply to Scotland subject to Application the following modifications:- (1) The Scottish Board of Health shall be sub- (2) In subsection (4) of the section of this Act (3) The expression "district council" and the 66 66 (4) The expression "sanitary inspector means 66 to Scotland. A.D. 1926. دو 56 the expression attending before a court of record means attending an inquiry under the last-mentioned Acts; the expression "Master of the supreme court" means the auditor of the sheriff court; references to sections one 5 hundred and eighty-two to one hundred and eighty-six of the Public Health Act, 1875, shall be construed as references to sections one hundred and eighty-three to one hundred and eighty-seven of the Public Health (Scotland) 10 Act, 1897; the reference to section twenty-two of the Public Health Acts Amendment Act, 1890, shall be construed as a reference to section twenty-nine of the Public Health (Scotland) Act, 1897; the reference to the Ministry of 15 Health Act, 1919, shall be construed as a reference to the Scottish Board of Health Act, 1919; the expression "recognised efficient school" means any public or other school under government inspection; the expression "owner" 20 means the person for the time entitled to receive or would, if the same were let, be entitled to receive the rents of the premises, and includes a trustee, factor, tutor or curator, and in the case of public or municipal property, applies to 25 the persons to whom the management thereof is entrusted; the expression poor law medical officer means the medical officer appointed by the parish council; the expression Births and Deaths Regulation Acts, 1836 to 1901," 30 means the Births Deaths and Marriages (Scotland) Acts, 1854 to 1910; references to a justice or to a superintendent registrar shall not apply. (5) The section of this Act relating to inquests in case of death by accident or industrial disease 35 in a factory shall not apply. ور 66 66 (6) All matters required by this Act to be published (7) All offences under this Act shall be prosecuted 5 10 (Scotland) Acts at the instance of the procurator A.D. 1926. (8) The court may make and may alter or vary by the procurator fiscal or by an inspector (9) It shall not be an objection to the competency 137. Subject as hereinafter provided the enactments Repeals. referred to in Part I. of the Third Schedule to this Act 15 are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that Schedule: Provided that any order, regulation, requirement, appointment, or agreement made or certificate or notice given under any enactment repealed by this Act which is 20 in force at the date of the commencement of this Act shall continue in force and shall have effect as though it had been made or given under this Act, except that the regulations made under the Factory and Workshop (Cotton Cloth Factories) Act, 1911, shall be subject 25 to 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. 138.—(1) The Board of Trade shall by order modify Application 30 the provisions of this Act for the purpose of their appli- of Act to cation to such quarries and pit banks as are not factories quarries and pit banks. as defined by this Act in such manner as to cause the said provisions to correspond to the provisions of the Acts repealed by this Act applicable thereto, and the 35 provisions of this Act shall, as so modified, apply accordingly as if the expression "factory" included any such quarry or pit bank and as if references to the Board of Trade were therein substituted for references to the Secretary of State. 40 66 (2) In this section the expression " quarry means any place, not being a mine, in which persons work in getting slate, stone, coprolites, or other minerals; and the expression "pit bank 'pit bank" means any place above |