View report page

50
The occupier of every factory and workshop (including any workshop conducted
on the system of not employing any child, young person, or
woman therein) in which is carried on :—
The manufacture of articles of wearing apparel,
The manufacture of electro-plate,
Cabinet and furniture making and upholstery work, or
The manufacture of files,
And every contractor employed by any such occupier in the business of the
factory or workshop, and also
The occupier of every place from which any work of making wearing apparel
for sale is given out, and every contractor employed by any such occupier in
connection with such work, to keep in the form and with the particulars prescribed
in the schedule hereto, lists showing the names of all persons directly employed by
him, either as workmen or as contractors, in the business of the said factory,
workshop, or place, outside the factory, workshop, or place, and the places where
they are employed; and every such list shall be open to inspection by any
Inspector under the Factory and Workshops Acts, 1878 to 1895, or by any Officer
of a Sanitary Authority ; and every such occupier and contractor shall send to the
Inspector for the district a list of such out-workers on or before the first day of
March and the first day of September in each year.
The Order of 31st October, 1892, under section 27 of the Factory and Workshop
Act, 1891, is hereby revoked.
This Order shall come into effect on the first day of February, 1896, and shall
continue in force until revoked.
M. W. RIDLEY.
Whitehall.
27th January, 1896.
The occupations principally concerned are those in which wearing apparel
furniture, and upholstery are made.
The outworkers in these trades work either in workshops for mixed persons,
in workshops for adults only, in workshops for male adults only, in domestic
workshops, or in their own rooms.
Workshops for mixed persons employ children, young persons, women, and
men, the control of employment for the protected persons (that is, all except the
men) being under the supervision of the Factory Inspector and the Home Office,
and the control of the sanitary condition of the premises being under the Workshop
Inspector and the Sanitary Authority.
Workshops for adults only, employ women and men, the control of employment
of the women being under the Home Office, and the sanitary condition of the
premises under the Sanitary Authority.
Workshops for male adults only are subject only to the control of sanitary
conditions by the Sanitary Authority.
Domestic Workshops, that is, places used as workshops in which only members
of the same family dwelling there are employed, are subject to regulations with