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rates of wages. Women are made eligible as members of Trade Boards
both representative and appointed, and in the case of a trade in which
women are largely employed at least one of the appointed members acting
must be a woman. The Board of Trade is empowered to appoint Officers
for carrying out the Act, who may be the existing inspectors of factories
under the Home Department; and it is expressly provided that, by Order
in Council, an interchange of powers may be effected between the several
departments of Government concerned. Finally the expenses of Trade
Boards and of their representative members (including compensation for
loss of time) and also the remuneration of appointed members and
secretaries, are to be paid out of monies provided by Parliament."
(Paterson's Practical Statutes.)
Oaths Act, 1909, 9 Edw. VII., cap. 39.
"By Section 5 of the Oaths Act, 1888, it is open to a person to whom
an oath is administered to swear, if he so desires, with unlifted hand, in
the form and manner in which an oath is usually administered in Scotland.
Under that Act, however, judges, magistrates, coroners and other persons
do not consider themselves justified in suggesting this form of oath to the
witness, jury or deponent; and it is a question whether the oath ought to
be so administered unless the witness, etc., voluntarily request it to be done.
Consequently, the old form of kissing the Book, to which there are many
objections, still prevails.
"The object of the present statute, which was introduced into the
House of Commons by Mr. Bramsdon, but was considerably amended in
Committee and also in the House of Lords, is to endeavour to make
universal the administration of the oath according to a new method—
namely, with the Book in the uplifted hand—by enabling the court, etc.,
to administer it in this form unless the person about to take the oath
voluntarily objects thereto." (Paterson's Practical Statutes.)
Housing, Town Planning, etc., Act, 1909, 9 Edw. VII.,
cap 44.
"The main objects of this Statute, which was for two years under
discussion by the House of Commons, and was also subjected to modification
in the House of Lords are twofold: (1) to amend the existing law
relating to the housing of the working classes by conferring wider powers,
simplifying the procedure and strengthening the authority of the Local
Government Board; (2) to introduce an entirely new method of urban