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of the persons employed therein, then, if the occupier or contractor
after the expiration of one month from receipt of the notice gives
out work to be done in that place, and the place is found by the
Court having cognizance of the case to be so injurious or dangerous,
he shall be liable to a fine not exceeding ten pounds.
(2) This section shall apply in the case of the occupier of any place from
which any work is given out as if that place were a workshop.
109.—If the occupier of a factory or workshop or of any place from which
any work is given out, or any contractor employed by any such occupier,
causes or allows wearing apparel to be made, cleaned, or repaired, in any
dwelling house or building occupied therewith, whilst any inmate of the
dwelling house is suffering from scarlet fever or small-pox, then, unless he
proves he was not aware of the existence of the illness in the dwelling house
and could not reasonably have been expected to become aware of it. he shall be
liable to a fine not exceeding ten pounds.
110.—(1) If any inmate of a house is suffering from an infectious disease to
which this section applies, the District Council of the district in which
the house is situate may make an order forbidding any work to
which this section applies to be given out to any person living or
working in that house, or such part thereof as may be specified in
the order, and any order so made may be served on the occupier of
any factory or workshop or any other place from which work is given
out, or on the contractor employed by any such occupier.
(2) The order may be made notwithstanding that the person suffering from
an infectious disease may have been removed from the house, and the
order shall be made either for a specified time or subject to the
condition that the house or part thereof liable to be infected shall be
disinfected to the satisfaction of the Medical Officer of Health, or that
other reasonable precautions shall be adopted.
(3) In any case of urgency the powers conferred on the District Council
by this section may be exercised by any two or more members of the
Council acting on the advice of the Medical Officer of Health.
(4) If any occupier or contractor on whom an order under this section has
been served contravenes the provisions of the order, he shall be liable
to a fine not exceeding ten pounds.
(5) The infectious diseases to which this section applies are the infectious
diseases required to be notified under the law for the time being in
force in relation to the notification of infectious diseases, and the
work to which this section applies is the making, cleaning, washing,
altering, ornamenting, finishing and repairing of wearing apparel,
and any work incidental thereto, and such other classes of work as
may be specified by Special Order of the Secretary ol State.
The Rome Work Order of 15th August, 1905. (No. 983.)
In pursance of the powers conferred on me by Sections 107, 108, and 110,
of the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, I hereby make the following Order :—