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Under section 26 of the Public Health (London) Act,
1891, the duties under sections 34, 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 relate 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.
Under the Factory and Workshops' Act, 1901, section
101—
(1) 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 con
formity 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, light, ventilation, and in all