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Outwork in unwholesome premises (Section 108 of Act of
1901; Section 111 of Act of 1937).
No case arose during the year of outwork being conducted in unwholesome
premises.
Abstract of the Act.—The Medical Officer of Health is required
to give written notice to H.M. Inspector of any factory coming to his
knowledge in which no abstract of the Act is affixed in accordance
with the Act.
During the year two factories were so reported.
The Factories Act, 1937, consolidated, with amendments, the
various Acts that had been passed from 1901 to 1929 relating to
factories and workshops. It came into operation on the 1st July, 1938.
The term "workshop" has been omitted and a factory is defined by
Section 151 as, inter alia, any premises in which, or within the close
or curtilage or precincts of which, persons are employed in manual
labour in any process for or incidental to any of the following purposes,
namely:—(a) the making of any article or of part of any
article; or (b) the altering, repairing, ornamenting, finishing, cleaning,
or washing, or the breaking up or demolition of any article; or (c) the
adapting for sale of any article; being premises in which, or within the
close or curtilage or precincts of which, the work is carried on by way
of trade or for purposes of gain and to or over which the employer of
the persons employed therein has the right of access or control. Any
Workplace in which, with the permission of or under agreement with
the owner or occupier, two or more persons carry on any work which
would constitute the workplace a factory if the persons working therein
were in the employment of the owner or occupier, is to be deemed to
be a factory for the purposes of this Act.
The former principal Act of 1901 applied to some extent provisions
of the Public Health Acts to Workshops and treated defaults
as nuisances under those Acts. Under the new Factories Act this
method is abandoned. The operative provisions for factories generally
are contained in the Factories Act itself, and when these are not
observed the factory occupier or other person responsible becomes
liable to a fine on summary conviction. Thus, Section 106 of the