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ORDER.OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
The "out-workers' section "(Sec. 27) of the Act of 1891, was materially
amended and extended by Section 42 of the Act of 1895. The Order made in 1892
under the former section was therefore recalled, and a new Order made applying
to the same industries, but giving full effect to the new provisions of the 1895 Act.
The Order is in the following terms :—
Whereas by Section 27 of the Factory and Workshop Act, 1891, it is enacted
that:—
"(1) The occupier of every factory and workshop (including any workshop
conducted on the system of not employing any child, young person, or
woman therein), and every contractor employed by any such occupier in
the business of the factory or workshop shall, if so required by the
Secretary of State by an Order made in accordance with Section 65 of
the principal Act, and subject to any exceptions mentioned in the Order,
keep in the prescribed form and with the prescribed particulars, lists
showing the names of all persons directly employed by him, either as
workman or as contractor, in the business of the factory or workshop,
outside the factory or workshop, and the places were they are employed,
and every such list shall be open to inspection by any Inspector under
the principal Act or by any Officer of a Sanitary Authority.
" (2) In the event of a contravention of this section by the occupier of a
factory or workshop, or by a contractor, the occupier or contractor shall
be liable to a fine not exceeding forty shillings."
And whereas, by Section 42 of the Factory and Workshop Act, 1895, it is
enacted that:—
" (1) Every occupier of a factory or workshop to whom Section 27 of the Act
of 1891 for the time being applies, and every contractor employed by any
such occupier in the business of the factory or workshop shall, on or
before the first day of March and the first day of September in each year,
send to the Inspector for the district in which the factory or workshop is
situate a list showing the names of all persons directly employed by him,
either as workmen or contractors, in the business of the factory or workshop,
outside the factory or workshop, and the place where they are
employed, and in default of so doing shall be liable to a fine not exceeding
forty shillings.
" (2) Section 27 of the Act of 1891, and this section shall apply to any place
from which any work of making wearing apparel for sale is given out,
and to the occupier of that place, and to every contractor employed by
any such occupier in connection with the said work, as if that place were
a workshop.''
Now I, the Right Honourable Sir Matthew White Ridley, Baronet, one of
Her Majesty's Priucipal Secretaries of State, by the Order, made under Section 65
of the Factory and Workshop Act, 1878, and Section 27 of the Factory and
Workshop Act, 1891, as amended by Section 42 of the Factory Act, 1895,
require: —