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Section 1. (1) Fixes the minimum cubic feet of space allowed
to each person in a factory or workshop at 250 cubic feet, or, during
overtime, 400 cubic feet. (2) Provides that the Secretary of State
may by order modify these figures for any period during which
artificial light, other than electric light, is used, or as regards any
particular manufacturing process or handicraft, substitute higher
figures than 250 and 400 respectively. (3) Provides that a notice
shall be affixed in each room of factory or workshop, specifying
the number of persons who may be employed therein.
Section 2. (1) A court of summary jurisdiction may, on complaint
by an inspector, prohibit any place being used as a factory or
workshop on being satisfied that any manufacturing process carried
on there is dangerous to health, life, or limb, until works have
been executed which, in the opinion of the Court, would remove the
danger. (2) But where proceedings might be taken by or at the
mstance of any Sanitary Authority under the provision of the law
relating to Public Health, proceedings shall not be taken under
(his section, unless the inspector is authorised to take proceedings
in pursuance of Sec. 1 or 2 of the Act of 1891. (2) Contravention
of any order under this section will render the occupier of the
place liable to a fine not exceeding 40 shillings a day during such
contravention.
Section 3 (1) Provides that where a notice of any act, neglect,
or default has been given by the factory inspector to the local
authority, it shall be the duty of the Sanitary Authority to inform
the inspector of the proceedings taken in consequence of the notice.
(2) Substitute for the words "within a reasonable time," in Section
2 of the principal Act, the words "within one month."
Section ft (1) This provides that if any occupier of a factory or
workshop or contractor employed by him gives out work to be done
in any place after the expiration of one month from the receipt of a
notice from a factory inspector, that such place is dangerous or
injurious to the health of the persons employed therein, and the