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the complaint of an inspector (under the Factory Act) that the condition
of a factory or workshop causes danger to health, to prohibit
its continued use until the necessary works have been executed, but
this does not relieve Sanitary Authorities from taking proceedings
under the provisions of the Public Health Act.
Section (3) makes it "the duty of the Sanitary Authority to inform
the Inspector" of Factories "of the proceedings taken" by them on
any complaint made by him as to a factory or workshop under Section 4
of the Principal Act, 1878 (as regards any act, neglect or default in
relation to any drain, water-closet, earth-closet, privy, ash-pit, water
supply, nuisance or other matter in a factory or workshop, which is
punishable or remediable under the law relating to public health, but
not under the Factory Act.
Section 3 (2) compels Sanitary Authorities "within a month" to
comply with the notice of an inspector, or the inspector may take the
like proceedings, it amends Section 2 (2) of the 1891 Act which
enacts—
Where notice of an act, neglect, or default is given by an inspector
under the said Section 4—(of the 1878 Act)—as amended by this
Act, to a sanitary authority, and proceedings are not taken " within
a reasonable time " for punishing or remedying the act, neglect or
default, the inspector may take the like proceedings for punishing
or remedying the same as the sanitary authority might have taken,
and shall be entitled to recover from the sanitary authority all such
expenses in and about the proceedings as the inspector incurs, and
recovered from any other person, and have not been incurred in any
unsuccessful proceedings.
Section (4) gives power, on complaint of a factory inspector to a
Court of Summary Jurisdiction, to make order as to dangerous
machinery.
Section (5). If an employer or any contractor receives notice from