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[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London, City of ]
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6. Every agent shall enter in the register of persons seeking employment particulars
of every application for employment he receives, and shall include in such particulars,
(a) the reference number of any such application that is not in strictly alphabetical order,
(b) the date of registration, (c) the name, address, and age of the applicant, (d) the
nature of the employment desired, (e) the salary, wages, or terms desired, (f) the amount
of any fee paid or payment made by the applicant and the number of the receipt given
for such fee or payment, (g) names of previous employers and nature of last employment,
(h) the name of every employer who is named to the person seeking employment
or to whom the name of the person seeking employment is given; and, when an
engagement has been made, (i) the name and address of the employer engaging, and
(j) the reference number of the employer in the register of employers, unless the
entries in that register are in strictly alphabetical order. He shall also issue to each
person seeking employment at the time of registration a printed postcard or form with
the necessary spaces for the following particulars, namely (1) the name and address of the
new employer; and (2) the date of engagement; and shall make it a condition of
registration that such person seeking employment shall return to him such postcard
or form, properly filled up, immediately an engagement takes place.
7. Every agent shall provide and keep a book of forms of numbered receipts with
counterfoils, and shall give a proper receipt for every amount received, stating his trade
name and address, the date of payment, the number in the register of employers or of
persons seeking employment, or other sufficient reference to the person making the payment,
and similar information shall be given on the counterfoil of every such receipt.
8. Every agent shall state his trade name, and the fact that he is acting as an agent,
in all advertisements or circulars issued by him, or on his behalf in connection with his
business, and shall file a copy of every such advertisement or circular.
9. No agent shall demand or receive from any person any fee or payment in respect
of employment unless before registering the application or before making the engagement
in respect of which the fee or payment is claimed he shall have furnished to such
person printed or written particulars of his fees or charges.
10. No agent shall knowingly transact business with or register any person known
to be a prostitute, or to be connected with a house of ill-fame.
11. No agent shall (a) make any false or fictitious entries in any register, (b) deceive
or attempt to deceive any person regarding any employment or any applicant for
employment, (c) suffer any person of ill-repute to frequent or otherwise use the registered
premises, or (d) permit such premises to be used for any improper purpose.
12. If, on the registered premises or upon any premises used for the purposes of or
in connection with the trade or business of an agent, accommodation or lodging is
provided for any female person seeking employment, the agent or person providing such
lodging or accommodation—
(а) Shall not suffer any room used by any such female person for sleeping to
be so occupied that there will be in such room less than 350 cubic feet of air
space for each person accommodated therein.
(b) Shall keep exhibited in a conspicuous place in each such room a legible
notice stating the total number of persons which such room will accommodate in
conformity with these bye-laws.
(c) Shall keep each such room furnished with suitable separate bedsteads and
sufficient suitable bedding for the number of persons which such room will
accommodate in conformity with these bye-laws.
(d) Shall not suffer more than one person to occupy one bed.
(e) Shall not suffer any male person, other than the person in charge of the
premises, to be in that part of any premises which female persons seeking employment
are for the time being using for sleeping accommodation.