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Temporary Exceptions.
Until the 1st day of July, 1868, Children of eleven
years of age may be employed as Young Persons of
thirteen.
Until the 1st day of July, 1870, Children of twelve
years of age may be employed as Young Persons of
thirteen.
Until the 1st day of January, 1869, Children, Young
Persons, and Women may be employed until half past
Four o'clock on Saturday afternoon.
Until the 1st day of July, 1870, Children, Young
Persons, and Women may be employed in the manufacture
of preserves from fruit, in the same manner as they were
employed before the passing of this Act.
Until the 1st day of July, 1870, Male Young Persons
of not less than sixteen years of age, may be employed in
the manufacture of Machinery as if they were Male
Persons exceeding the age of eighteen years.
The Secretary of State is empowered to authorize the
employment of Male Young Persons at night, and the
substitution of another day for the Saturday half holiday,
where the customs or exigencies of certain trades require
such modification.
This Act does not apply to Foundries, or premises in
which power is used for the manufacture of Machinery, or
of any article of Metal, India-rubber, or Gutta-percha, nor
to the Paper, Glass, or Tobacco manufacture, nor. to
Letter-press Printing, or Book-binding, nor to any premises
in which fifty persons are employed. All these works are
under "The Factory Extension Act, 1867," which is