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Thus under the division of "General Law" (Safety), clauses 2
and 4 provide power to make orders prohibiting the use of
dangerous factories or workshops or machines, under a penalty
of forty shillings a day during contravention. Clauses 7 and 8
are amendments, and clause 12 is an extension of the Act of
1878 as regards the fencing of machinery, the cleansing of
machinery in motion, and penal compensation for death or bodily
injury through neglect of fencing. Clause 9 is a regulation for
the protection of persons liable to pass near self-acting machinery.
Clause 11 provides for the representation of workmen on matters
in difference referred to arbitration under the act of 1891. Then
lollow clauses 13 and 14 (Employment), prohibiting the overtime
employment of young persons and of persons generally on Saturdays,
and restricting the overtime of women and young
persons and the employment of children, young persons and
women inside and outside of a factory or workshop on the same
day.
Clause 15 relates to Holidays. Clauses 16 to 18 (the first of
these being an amendment of section 31 of the principal Act)
treat of Notice as to Accidents; the watching of Inquests on
Accidents by the Factory Inspector or other representative of the
Secretary of State; the registration, under penalty, of Accidents;
and the granting of power to the Secretary of State to direct
formal investigation into Accidents in factories or workshops.
Under the Division of "Special Rules and Requirements,"
clause 20 extends to docks, &c., certain provisions of
the Factory Acts relating to the fencing of machinery, notice of
register of accidents, and powers of inspectors—as if such dock
were a factory, the machinery a manufacturing process, and the
occupier the occupier of a factory. Clauses 21 to 23 treat of
"Tenement Factories" (i.e., different parts of the same building
supplied with mechanical power and sub-let to different
persons, all buildings within the same curtilage being treated as
one building.) The owner of a tenement factory is made liable
instead of the cccupier for (a) the sanitary condition of the