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(2) Also any premises, room or place, not being a factory
within the meaning of this Act, in which premises, room or place,
or within the close, or curtilage, or precincts of which premises,
any manual labour is exercised by way of trade, or for purposes of
gain, in or incidental to the following purposes or any of them,
that is to say:
(a) In or incidental to the making of any article or of any
part of an article; or
(b) In or incidental to the altering, repairing, ornamenting,
or finishing of any article: or
(c) In or incidental to the adapting for sale of any
article.
and to which or over which premises, room, or place, the employer
of the persons working therein has the right of access or control."
'It is further enacted in the same section that "any premises or
place shall not be excluded from the definition of a workshop by reason
only that such premises or place are, or is, in the open air."
'A shorter definition of a "workshop" is, that it is a workplace in
which no "power" is used, a "factory" being a workplace wherein or
within the close, or curtilage or precincts of which, steam, water or
other mechanical power is used in aid of the manufacturing process
carried on there. The Act of 1895 classes a laundry (other than a
steam or power laundry) as a "workshop."
'The duty of preventing overcrowding, and of enforcing cleanliness,
lime washing, ventilation and freedom from effluvia in workshops,
was removed from the Factory Inspector, and laid upon the Sanitary
Authority, by the Factory and Workshop Act, 1891, Section 3; and it is
the duty of the Sanitary Authority in London, to deal with these matters
in workshops, when necessary, as nuisances under the Public Health
(London) Act, 1891, sec. 2, sub-sec. (1) (g).
'In the Factory and Workshop Act, 1891, it is enacted (in effect)
that where a Sanitary Authority neglect to carry out the duties
devolving upon them with regard to preventing overcrowding
enforcing cleanliness, limewashing. and freedom from effluvia in any
workshops, or class of workshops, or laundries, the Home Secretary
may, "by order authorise and direct" a Factory Inspector to take over
during such period as may be mentioned in the order, the powers and
duties of the Sanitary Authority with respect to workshops, and a
Factory Inspector so authorised is entitled to recover from the defaulting
Sanitary Authority all the expenses he may incur in so doing.
Factory and
Workshop Act,
1891, sec. 3.
Factory and
Workshop Act,
1891, sec. 1 (1)
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