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FACTORY AND WORKSHOPS ACT, 1901,
SECTION 149.
The expression "Workshop" means any premises, room, or
place (not being a "Factory") in which premises any manual
labour is exercised by way of trade or for purposes of pain in or
incidental to the following purposes :-
The making of any article or part of any article, or the altering
repairing, ornamenting, or finishing of any article, or the
adapting for sale of any article.
Workshops may be divided into the following classes :-
(a) Registered Workshops.
(b) Domestic Workshops.
(c) Men's Workshops.
(a) REGISTERED WORKSHOPS.
Premises (not being domestic workshops) where women or
young persons are employed in "workshops," these are required
by law to be registered with full particulars by the Borough
Councils, and the occupier must exhibit in some conspicuous
position the prescribed abstract of the Factory Act. If the
Medical Officer of Health or one of the Sanitary Inspectors
visits one of these workshops (not a domestic workshop) where
women or young persons are employed and fails to find the
abstract posted, it becomes the duty of the officer to report the
omission to the Factory Inspector.
(b) DOMESTIC WORKSHOPS.
These are workshops carried on in a private house, room, or
place in which the only persons employed are members of the
same family dwelling there. The domestic workshop becomes
an ordinary registerable workshop directly any outside persons
are employed in addition to those dwelling in the house, if any
of the workers are women or are under 18 years of age.