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1902]
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Sanitary
regulations
for bakehouses.
Sections 97 to 102 of the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901.
(iii.) Bakehouses.
97.—(1.) It shall not be lawful to let or suffer to be occupied or to
occupy any room or place as a bakehouse, unless the following regulations
are complied with:—
(a.) A watercloset, eartbcloset, privy, or ashpit must not be
within or communicate- directly with the bakehouse;
(b.) Every cistern for supplying water to the bakehouse must be
separate and distinct from any cistern for supplying water
to a watercloset;
(c.) A drain or pipe for carrying off faecal or sewage matter must
not have an opening within the bakehouse.
(2.) If any person lets or suffers to be occupied or occupies any room
or place as a bakehouse in contravention of this section he shall be liable
to a fine not exceeding forty shillings, and to a further fine not exceeding
five shillings for every day during which any room or place is so occupied
after conviction under this section.
Penalty for
bakehouse
being unfit
on sanitary
grounds.
98.—(1.) Where a court of summary jurisdiction is satisfied on the
prosecution of an inspector or a district council that any room or place
used as a bakehouse is in such a state as to be on sanitary grounds unfit
for use or occupation as a bakehouse, the occupier of the bakehouse shall
be liable to a fine not exceeding, for the first offence, forty shillings, and
for any subsequent offence five pounds.
(2.) The court of summary jurisdiction, in addition to or instead of
inflicting a fine, may order means to be adopted by the occupier, within
the time named in the order, for the purpose of removing the ground of
complaint. The court may, on application, enlarge the time so named,
but if after the expiration of the time as originally named or enlarged
by subsequent order the order is not complied with, the occupier shall be
liable to a fine not exceeding one pound for every day that the noncompliance
continues.
Limewashing,
painting
and washing
of bakehouses
99.—(1.) All the inside walls of the rooms of a bakehouse, and all
the ceilings or tops of those rooms (whether those walls, ceilings, or tops
are plastered or not), and all the passages and staircases of a bakehouse,
must either be painted with oil or varnished or be limewashed, or be partly
painted or varnished and partly limewashed; and
(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.
(2.) A bakehouse in which there is a contravention of this section
shall be deemed not to be kept in conformity with this Act.
Provision as
to sleeping
places near
bakehouses.
100.—(1.) A place on the same level with the bakehouse, and forming
part of the same building, may not 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