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(a) Where the bakehouse is painted with oil or varnished there must be three coats
of paint or varnish, and the paint or varnish must be renewed once at least in every seven
years, and must be washed with hot water and soap once at least in every six months; and
(b) Where the bakehouse is limewashed, the limewashing must be renewed once at
least in every six months.
6. No place on the same level with a bakehouse, and forming part of the same building,,
be used as a sleeping place unless it is constructed as follows, that is to say :—
(a) Is effectually separated from the bakehouse by a partition extending from the
floor to the ceiling ; and
(b) Has an external glazed window of at least nine superficial feet in area, of which
at the least four and a half superficial feet are made to open for ventilation; and unless
such sleeping room (if separately occupied) comply with the requirements as to underground
rooms (so occupied) laid down in the Public Health Acts.
B.—Administrative.
1. The bakehouse to be kept at all times periodically cleansed and in a cleanly state,
and free from offensive effluvia arising from drains, w.c.s, urinals or other nuisance.
2. Nothing to be stored within the underground bakehouse itself, and no sweepings,
ashes, or other refuse matters to be allowed to remain and accumulate, but to be removed from
such underground bakehouse immediately after the day's work be concluded or shift changed.
3. All utensils, troughs, &c., to be kept at all times scrupulously clean.
4. No animal to be kept in a bakehouse on any pretence whatever.
5. No overcrowding to be allowed at any time within a bakehouse, a minimum 250 cubic
feet of space being allowed for each person employed therein during ordinary work, and 400
cubic feet of space during overtime.
6. The bakehouse is never to be used for any other purpose except that for which it is
intended. No laundry or other work is to be carried on in the bakehouse.
(7) In the part of a bakehouse in which the process of baking bread is carried on, the
period of employment for any male young person above the age of sixteen years may be between
five o'clock in the morning and nine o'clock in the evening if he is employed in accordance with
the following conditions, viz. :—
(a) Where he is employed on any day before the beginning or after the end of the
ordinary period of employment there must be allowed him for meals and absence from
work between the above mentioned hours of five in the morning and nine in the evening
not less than seven hours ; and
(b) Where he is employed on any day before the beginning of the ordinary period of
employment he must not be employed on the same day after the end of that period ; and
(c) Where he is employed on any day after the end of the ordinary period of employment
he must not be employed next morning before the beginning of the ordinary period
of employment.
(d) For the purpose of this exception the ordinary period of employment means the
period of employment for women or young persons under the age of sixteen years in the
bakehouse, or, if none are employed, means such period as can under this Act be fixed for
the employment of women and young persons under the age of sixteen years in the
bakehouse, and notice of that period shall be affixed in the bakehouse.