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Sec. 35.—Where a bakehouse is situate in any city, town, or place containing, according to
the last published Census for the time being, a population of more than five thousand persons, a
place on the same level with the bakehouse, and forming part of the same building, shall not
be used as a sleeping place, unless it is constructed as follows, that is to say—
Unless it is effectually separated from the bakehouse by a partition extending from the
floor to the ceiling, and —
Unless there be an external glazed window of at least nine superficial feet in area, of
which at the least four-and-a-half superficial feet are made to open for ventilation.
Any person who lets or occupies or continues to let, or knowingly suffers to be occupied
any place contrary to this section shall be liable to a fine not exceeding, for the first offence,
twenty shillings, and for every subsequent offence five pounds.
Sec. 81—If a factory or workshop is not kept in conformity with this Act, the oocupier
thereof shall be liable to a fine not exceeding ten pounds.
The Court of Summary Jurisdiction, in addition to or instead of inflicting such fine, may
order certain means to be adopted by the occupier, within the time named in the order, for the
purpose of bringing his factory or workshop into conformity with this Act; the Court may, upon
application, enlarge the time so named, but if, after the expiration of the time as originally
named or enlarged by subsequent order, the order is not complied with, the occupier shall be
liable to a line not exceeding one pound for every day that such non-compliance continues.
FACTORY AND WORKSHOP ACT, 1883.
Sec. 15.—It shall not be lawful to let or suffer to be occupied as a bakehouse, or to occupy
as a bakehouse, any room or place which was not so let or occupied before the first day of June,
one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three, unless the following regulations are complied with: —
(1) No water-closet, earth-closet, privy, or ashpit, shall be within or communicate
directly with the bakehouse.
(2) Any cistern for supplying water to the bakehouse shall be separate and distinct
from any cistern for supplying water to a water-closet.
(3) No drain or pipe for carrying off foecal or sewage matter shall have an opening within
the bakehouse.
Any person who lets or suffers to be occupied or who occupies any room or place as a
bakehouse in contravention of this section shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not
exceeding forty shillings, and to a further fine not exceeding five shillings for every day during
which any room or place so occupied after a conviction under this section.
Sec. 16.—Where a Court of Summary Jurisdiction is satisfied on the prosecution of an
Inspector or a Local Authority, that any room or place used as a bakehouse (whether the same was
or was not so used before the passing of this Act) is in such a state as to be on sanitary grounds
unfit for use or occupation as a bakehouse, the occupier of the bakehouse shall be liable, on
summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding forty shillings, and on a second or any subsequent
conviction, not exceeding five pounds.
The Court of Summary Jurisdiction, in addition to or instead of inflicting such fine, may
order means to be adopted by the occupier, within the time named in the order, for the purpose
of removing the ground of complaint. The Court may, upon application, enlarge the time so
named, but if, after the expiration of the time as originally named or enlarged by subsequent
order, the order is not complied with, the occupier shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one
pound for every day that such non-compliance continues.
Section 25.—(1) Where, on the certificate of a Medical Officer of Health or
Sanitary Inspector, it appears to any Sanitary Authority that the limewashing,
cleansing, or purifying of any workshops (other than a bakehouse), or of any part
thereof, is necessary for the health of the persons employed therein, the Sanitary
Authority shall serve notice in writing on the owner or occupier of the workshops
to limewash, cleanse or purify the workshops or part, as the case requires, within
the time specified in the notice, and if the person on whom notice is so served fails