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FACTORY AND WORKSHOP ACT, 1901.
Part VI.—Home Work.
107.—In the case of persons employed in such classes of work as may from
time to time be specified by Special Order of the Secretary of State:—
(1) The occupier of every factory and workshop, and every contractor
employed by any such occupier in the business of the factory or
workshop shall—
(a) Keep in the prescribed form and manner, and with the
scribed particulars, lists showing the names and addresses
of all persons directly employed by him, either as workmen
or as contractors, in the business of the factory or workshop
outside the factory or workshop, and the places where they
are employed; and
(b) Send to an inspector such copies of or extracts from those
lists as the Inspector may from time to time require; and
(c) Send on or before the first day of February and the first day
of August in each year, copies of those lists to the District
Council of the district in which the factory or workshop is
situate.
(2) Every District Council shall cause the lists received in pursuance of
this section to be examined, and shall furnish the name and place of
employment of every outworker included in any such list whose place
of employment is outside its district to the Council of the District in
which his place of employment is.
(3) The lists kept by the occupier or contractor shall be open to inspection
by any Inspector under this Act, and by any officer duly authorised
by the District Council, and the copies sent to the Council and the
particulars furnished by one Council to another shall be open to
inspection by any Inspector under this Act.
(4) This section shall apply to any place from which any work 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.
(5) In the event of a contravention of this section by the occupier of a
factory, workshop, or place, or by a contractor, the occupier or
contractor shall be liable to a fine not exceeding forty shillings, and
in the case of a second or subsequent offence not exceeding five
pounds.
108.—(1) If the District Council within whose district is situate a place in
which work is carried on for the purpose of or in connection with the
business of a factory or workshop give notice in writing to the
occupier of the factory or workshop or to any contractor employed by
any such occupier, that that place is injurious or dangerous to the
health of the persons employed therein, then, if the occupier or
contractor after the expiration of one month from receipt of the notice