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Shoreditch 1892

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch, Parish of St. Leonard]

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No. 44.)
FACTORY AND WORKSHOP ACTS, 1878-1891
(Gazetted 4th November, 1892.)
ORDER OF SECRETARY OF STATE REQUIRING OCCUPIERS OF CERTAIN
FACTORIES AND WORKSHOPS TO KEEP LISTS OF OUTWORKERS.
WHEREAS by Section 27 (1) of the Factory and Workshop Act, 1891,
it is enacted that:—
"The occupier of every factory and workshop (including any workshop
conducted on the system of not employing any child, young person,
or woman therein) and every contractor employed by any such occupier
in the business of the factory or workshop shall, if so required by the
Secretary of State by an Order made in accordance with Section 65 of
the principal Act, and subject to any exceptions mentioned in the Order,
keep in the prescribed form and with the prescribed particulars lists
shewing the names of all persons directly employed by him, either as
workman or as contractor, in the business of the factory or workshop,
outside the factory or workshop, and the places where they are employed,
and every such list shall be open to inspection by any inspector under
the principal Act or by any officer of a sanitary authority."
Now I, the Right Honourable Herbert Henry Asquith, one of Her Majesty's
Principal Secretaries of State, by this Order, made under Section 65 of the Factory
and Workshop Act, 1878, and Section 27 of the Factory and Workshop Act, 1891,
require the occupier of every factory and workshop (including any workshop
conducted on the system of not employing any child, young person, or woman
therein), and every contractor employed by any such occupier in any of the
businesses mentioned in the schedule hereunder, to keep in the form and with the
particulars hereunder prescribed. lists shewing the names of all persons directly
employed by him, either as workman or as contractor, in the said business outside
the factory or workshop, and the places where they are employed, and every such
list shall be open to inspection by any inspector under the Factory and Workshop
Act, 1878, or by any officer of a sanitary authority.
The order of the 18th July, 1892, under the above recited enactments, is
hereby revoked.
This order shall come into effect on the twentieth day of November, 1892, and
shall continue in force until revoked.
HERBERT H. ASQUITH.
Whitehall, 31.st October, 1892.