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recreational or climatic, and for disseminating that information outside the
British Isles.
The expenditure is limited to the product of a ½d. rate in any one year.
(Since the date of this Report, this Bill has received the Royal
Assent.)
Advertisements Regulation (Amendment) Bill.
This Bill is a Private Member's Bill.
It seeks to amend the law with respect to the regulation of advertisements by
providing that the powers of a local authority for making by-laws under the
Advertisements Regulation Act, 1907, as amended shall include power to make
by-laws for regulating or restricting the exhibition of advertisements which affect
injuriously the amenities of their district.
In London the local authority for making and enforcing any by-laws made
pursuant to the powers of the Bill will be the London County Council.
(Since the date of this Report, this Bill has been dropped.)
Slaughter of Animals Bill.
This is a Private Member's Bill, the object of which is to ensure that all
animals slaughtered in slaughterhouses, whether for human food or otherwise,
shall be humanely killed or stunned by a mechanically operated instrument.
All slaughtermen are to be licensed by the local authority so that only competent
and reliable men shall be engaged in the work.
Proper inspection of slaughterhouses is to be made by persons appointed by
local authorities (in London the Borough Council) and by officers of societies for
the protection of animals.
The Ministry of Health issued, some years ago, model by-laws for slaughterhouses,
providing for the use of mechanical instruments, which may be adopted
voluntarily by local authorities, and the Bill incorporates these by-laws.
Works Councils Bill.
This is a Private Member's Bill, which seeks to provide for the establishment
of works councils in factories and workshops for the consideration of matters
of mutual concern to employers and employees. A works council shall be
constituted in respect of every undertaking carried on in a place which is a factory
or workshop within the meaning of the Factories and Workshops Acts, provided
that fifty or more persons are normally employed therein.
Local authorities may be the owners of undertakings which are factories or
workshops as above defined by reason of the fact (a) that certain of their premises
are used for the making, etc., of articles; or (b) that they own premises in which
electrical energy is generated or transformed.
The responsibility for constituting the works council is to rest upon the
proprietors of the undertaking. The Minister of Labour will prepare draft schemes
appropriate to the requirements of concerns of varying types, and to this end will
appoint a Works Councils Advisory Committee to assist her in the preparation
of such draft schemes. Not less than twelve months before the date the Bill is
to come into force, the Minister is to notify the proprietors of undertakings to
which the Act applies of their obligations and to submit to them draft schemes
appropriate to their requirements. Within six months the proprietors of the
undertaking are to notify the Minister of the acceptance of one of the draft schemes
or, alternatively, they may submit schemes of their own for the approval of the
Minister.
Every draft scheme is to provide, inter alia, for the exercise by the works
council of the functions of formulating works rules relating to hours of beginning
and ending work, holidays, payment of wages, overtime, absence from sickness,
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