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generating dust, under a penalty of not more than ten pounds
or less than three pounds for each offence. By section 9 of the
Act, on the complaint of any officer of health, inspector of nuisances,
or other officer appointed by a local authority, or any
superintendent of police, it appears to any justice of the peace,
that there is reasonable ground for believing that any of the provisions
of this Act or of the Sanitary Act, 1866, are contravened
in any workshop, it shall be lawful for such justice to empower
the complainant to enter into such workshop to ascertain if the
provisions of this Act or of the Sanitary Act, 1866, are carried
out. Any person refusing admission is liable to a penalty not
exceeding twenty pounds. By section 12, all penalties may be
recovered summarily before a police magistrate. By section 14
and 15 it is enacted that every child employed in a workshop
shall be sent to school by the parent for at least ten hours
every week, under a penalty of not more than one pound; aud
by section 16 the employer shall obtain a certificate of the
attendance at school, and retain it for one month under a
penalty of not more than three pounds. By section 18 it is
provided that " it shall be the duty of the local authority to
enforce within their jurisdiction the provisions of the Act, so
far as relates to any powers or authorities conferred on them by
the Act. Under these provisions the officers of the Sanitary
Staff have inspected a Targe number of workplaces, and have
served an abstract of the Act on 203 occupiers of workshops.
It has not been necessary to take out any summons for a breach
of this Act.
The provisions of the Artizans' Dwellings Act has also
been put in force for the first time within this district during
this year. The notices necessary for carrying out this Act are
numerous and difficult to frame; but your officers have not
allowed the difficulties of the Act to prevent them for doing