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(3.) A factory in which there is a contravention of the provisions
of this section shall be deemed not to be kept in conformity with
the principal Act, and a workshop in which there is a contravention
of the provisions of this section shall be deemed to be a nuisance
liable to be dealt with summarily under the law relating to public
health.
Sec. 16.—Every district council shall keep a register of all workshops
situate within their district.
Sec. 17.—The medical officer of health of every district council
shall, in his annual report to them, report specifically on the
administration of the Factoty Acts in workshops and workplaces,
and he shall send a copy of his annual report, or so much of it
as deals with this subject, to the Secretary of State.
Sec. 28.—(1.) After the first day of January one thousand nine hundred
and four, an underground bakehouse shall not be used unless certified
by the district council to be suitable for that purpose, and for the
purpose of this section an underground bakehouse shall mean a
bakehouse, any room of which is so situate that the surface of the
floor is more than three feet below the surface of the footway of
the adjoining street, or of the ground adjoining or nearest to the
room.
(2.) An underground bakehouse shall not be certified as suitable
unless the district council is satisfied that it is suitable as regards
construction, light, ventilation, and in all other respects.
(3.) This section shall have effect as if it were included among
the provisions of the Factory Acts relating to bakehouses which
are referred to in section seventeen of the Act of 1883 and in
section twenty-six of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891.