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H.M. Inspectors of Factories are responsible for seeing that the requirements
of the Act other than those dealt with by the local authority are enforced,
and where on their visits they find contraventions of Sections 1 to 7
they bring them to our notice.
From the above summary of the Council's obligations in relation to the
large number of factories in this Borough it will be appreciated that a task
of some considerable magnitude is involved.
HOME WORK - OUTWORKERS The Secretary of State, by Regulation, specifies
the classes of work to which the provisions of the sections of the Act relating
to home work shall be applied.
SECTION 110 provides that the occupier of every factory, and every contractor
employed by any such occupier in the business of the factory shall
keep, in prescribed form, lists showing the names and addresses of persons referred
to as "outworkers" directly employed by him, either as workmen or as
contractors, in the business of the factory, outside the factory and of the
places where they are employed. The Section also directs that during the
months of February and August in each year copies of these lists, showing all
outworkers so employed by him during the preceding six months, shall be sent
to the Council.
SECTION 111 provides that, where home work is carried on in any place
which in the opinion of the Council is injurious or dangerous to the health of
the persons employed therein, the Council may give notice in writing to the
occupier of the factory or to any contractor employed by him setting out particulars
of the respects in which the place is injurious or dangerous to
health. If at the expiration of ten days from receipt of the notice the
occupier of a factory, or contractor, gives out work to be done in such a
place, he shall be, unless it is proved to the contrary, guilty of an offence
Part II of the Third Schedule of the Act sets out the provisions relating
to the carrying out of home work in premises where there is Scarlet Fever,
Smallpox or other infectious disease.