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Under section 26 of the Public Health (London)
Act) 1891, the duties under sections 31, 35, and 81 of
the Factory and Workshops' Act, 1878, and sections 15
and 16 of the Factory and Workshops' Act Amendment
Act, 1883, which related to the cleanliness, ventilation,
and other sanitary conditions of bakehouses which are
workshops, were transferred for enforcement by the
sanitary authority of the district in which the bakehouse
is situated.
The Factory and Workshops' Act, 1901, repealed
the Factory and Workshops' Acts, 1878 and 1883, but
re-enacted the same sections with certain additional
provisions to be enforced by the sanitary authorities.
Under section 101 of the 1901 Act:—
(!) An underground bakehouse shall not be used as a bakehouse,
unless it was so used at the passing of this Act.
(2) Subject to the foregoing provision, after the first 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 the purpose:
(3) For the purpose of this section an underground bakehouse
shall mean a bakehouse, any baking 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 ground
adjoining or nearest to the room. The expression bakehouse
means any room used for baking or for any process incidental
thereto.
(4) 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;
(5) This section shall have effect as if it were included among
the provisions relating to bakehouses which are referred to in
section twenty-six of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891
(6) If any place is used in contravention of this section it
shall be deemed to be a workshop not kept in conformity with
this Act.
(7) In the event of a refusal of a certificate by the District
Council, the occupier of the bakehouse may within twenty-one
days from the refusal by complaint apply to a Court of Summary
Jurisdiction, and if it appears to the satisfaction of the Court
that the bakehouse is suitable for use as regards construction,