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Factories are defined generally as all places
in which mechanical power is used in aid of any
manufacturing process, and there is a list of 18
classes of work which are defined to be factories
and not workshops, whether mechanical power is
used in them or not.
Factories.
In the case of factories the duties of the
Council are limited to seeing that every factory in
the district is provided with sufficient means of
escape in case of fire, and in districts where
Part III of the Public Health Acts, Amendment
Act, 1890, is in force ; the enforcement
of the requirements of Section 22 of that Act,
as to the provision of suitable and sufficient
sanitary conveniences.
The following are defined as Workshops
viz.:—
Workshops.
1. Any premises in which manual labour is
exercised for the purpose of altering, repairing, ornamenting,
finishing or adapting goods for the purpose of
gain, provided that no mechanical power is employed,
and that the employer of the persons working there
has a right of access or control.
2. Tenement Workshops. That is workplaces in
which two or more persons carry on work on their
own account, under agreement with the owner or
occupier, as in the case of journeymen tailors who
hire sittings from the owners or occupiers of workshops.
3. Laundries in which no mechanical power is
used, and which are not in connection with any
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