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THE VACCINATION ACT 1907.
The Vaccination Act of 1907 has so amended the Act of 1898
as to substitute a statutory "declaration of conscientious belief" for
the provision as to satisfying two justices of such belief which
formerly obtained, and the modification in question came into operation
at the beginning of 1908.
THE FACTORY AND WORKSHOPS ACT, 1907.
This Act amends the Factory and Workshops Act of 1901 with
respect to laundries, and it extends that Act to certain institutions.
Some further conditions as to the hours of employment of women
and young persons in laundries are included. The provisions of
the principal Act are made to apply to institutions carried on for
charitable or reformatory purposes, and not being premises subjected
to inspection by Government officials. If, however, any institution
can satisfy the Secretary of State that the only persons working
therein are inmates of and supported by the institution or persons
engaged in the supervision of the work or management of machinery,
and that such laundry work is carried on in good faith with the purpose
of the support, education, training or reformation of persons
engaged in it, the Secretary of State may, by Order, direct that the
principal Act shall apply to the institution subject to certain
modifications.
The Secretary of State may arrange that premises which are
subject to inspection under any Government Department, and which
are not factories or workshops (because the work carried on therein
is not with the object of trade or gain) shall, as respects matters dealt
with by the principal Act, be inspected by a Factory Inspector, and
that the latter shall have the usual rights of entry.