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The extension of the provisions of the Factory and Workshop
Act, 1901, to laundries carried on by way of trade or for the
purpose of gain or as an ancillary to another business or
incidentally to the purpose of any public institution.
To regulate the hours of employment of women and
young persons in laundries other than laundries ancillary to a
business carried on in any premises which, apart from the
provisions of this Act, are a factory or workshop.
Special regulations applicable to laundries for regulating
the temperature of every ironing room and for carrying away
steam in every wash-house; for controlling the use of heating
irons; for the efficient draining of floors to allow water to flow
off freely.
Butter and Margarine Act, 1907.—This Act came into
operation on the first day of January, 1908, and is the outcome
of a report of a Select Committee appointed (1906) to consider
whether any, and if so, what further legislation was required in
order to secure the better control and conduct of the trade in
butter and butter substitutes.
Registration.—Provision is made in the Act for registration
of factories and consignments. The provision of Section 9
of the Margarine Act, 1887, as amended by Section 7 of the Sale
of Food and Drugs Act, 1899, shall apply to butter factories, that
is to say any premises on which, by way of trade, butter is
blended, re-worked, or any premises on which there is manufactured
any milk-blended butter.
Inspection.—An officer if specially authorised by the
local authority, shall have power to enter at all reasonable
times any premises registered under the Sale of Food and Drugs
Act, or this Act, and take samples for analysis of any butter,
margarine, margarine cheese, milk blended butter or any