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SCHEDULE A (p).

REGISTER of the TIME during which every YOUTH, employed on any Day before 6 a.m. or after 6 p.m., has been employed during the Week ending [Sept. 10, 1862] by [John Armstrong & Co.] at the [

Street], [Nottingham], or [in the Parish or Township of[

] Lace Factory, situate in []

] in the County of [

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[The hours of actual work are to be registered after the manner described in the above Schedule, as the case may be.]

(p) See s. 2, supra.

180

THE FACTORY ACTS EXTENSION

ACT, 1864.

27 & 28 VICT. An Act for the Extension of the Factory [25th July, 1864.]

48.

Acts (a).

WHEREAS it is expedient to provide for the effectual cleansing and ventilation of the factories in which are carried on the manufactures and employments specified in the first schedule hereto,

(a) This Act was passed in consequence of the recommendations contained in the first report of the Children's Employment Commission (1862); whose inquiries resulted in disclosures of a painful character respecting the physical and moral condition of children engaged in the manufactures affected by this Act.

The Act accordingly extends the provisions of the Factory Acts, subject to the few variations specified in s. 6, infra, and with the addition of the new provisions respecting sanitary measures and special rules for the regulation of workmen (ss. 4, 5, infra), to the following manufactures and employments, namely:

The manufacture of earthenware, except bricks and tiles, not
being ornamental tiles;

The manufacture of lucifer matches;
The manufacture of percussion caps;
The manufacture of cartridges;
The employment of paper staining;

The employment of fustian cutting.

The term "factory," as applied to each of these several manufactures and employments receiving respectively a special definition. Infra, ss. 2, 6, sub-s. (1).

As to the manufacture of bricks and tiles (which are excepted from the operation of this Act, vide supra), see now 34 & 35 Vict. c. 104 (The Factory and Workshop Act, 1871), s. 5; post.

c. 43.

and for the regulation of the labour of the chil- 27 & 23 VICT. dren, young persons, and women employed therein: Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

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I. This Act may be cited for all purposes as Short title. the "Factory Acts Extension Act, 1864."

II. This Act shall apply only to the several Application manufactures and employments mentioned in the of Act. said first schedule (b).

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III. The Factory Acts shall mean such provi- Definition of sions as are now in force of the Acts following (c); (that is to say),

An Act passed in the fourth year of the reign of
His late Majesty, chapter one hundred and
three, intituled An Act to regulate the Labour
of Children and Young Persons in the Mills
and Factories of the United Kingdom:
An Act passed in the seventh year of the reign
of Her present Majesty, chapter fifteen, inti-
tuled An Act to amend the Laws relating to
Labour in Factories:

An Act passed in the fourteenth year of the
reign of Her present Majesty, chapter fifty-
four, intituled An Act to amend the Acts
relating to Labour in Factories:

An Act passed in the seventeenth year of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter one hundred and four, intituled An Act further

(b) See infra, p. 189; and s. 6, infra.

Factory 2 Acts"

(c) All these Acts are set out in this work; see ante. See 34 & 35 Vict. c. 104, s. 2, as to the term "The Factory Acts, 1833 to 1871;" post.

27 & 23 VICT. C.13.

Factory to be well

cleansed and ventilated.

to regulate the Employment of Children in Factories.

An Act passed in the twentieth year of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter thirty-eight, intituled An Act for the further Amendment of the Laws relating to Labour in Factories.

Sanitary Measures (d).

IV. Every factory to which this Act applies shall be kept in a cleanly state, and be ventilated in such a manner as to render harmless so far as is practicable any gases, dust, or other impurities generated in the process of manufacture that may be injurious to health (e).

If the occupier of any factory fails to keep the same in conformity with this section, he shall be deemed to be guilty of an offence against this Act, and to be subject in respect of such offence to a penalty not exceeding ten pounds nor less than three pounds (f).

(d) As to the duty of the occupier to limewash, &c., the rooms in which young persons and children are employed, see 7 & 8 Vict. c. 15, s. 18; ante.

(e) This and the next sections are incorporated with the Factory Acts Extension Act, 1867; and, consequently, are in force in every factory within the operation of that Act. 30 & 31 Vict. c. 103, ss. 5, 6; post. Whereby, moreover, an extension of the above provision relating to ventilation has been made as to factories where grinding, glazing, or polishing on a wheel, or any other process, is carried on, by which dust is generated and inhaled by the workmen to an injurious extent. Id., s. 9; post. So, also, the provisions of this and the next sections have been extended and applied for the purpose of preventing overcrowding. Id., sch., par. 10; post.

(f) The next section assists the occupier in keeping the factory properly cleansed, &c, by empowering him to make special rules for the workmen, and to fix penalties for the breach thereof; which

c. 48.

Sect. 4.

The Court (g) having jurisdiction under this 27 & 28 VICT. Act may, in addition to or instead of inflicting any penalty in respect of an offence under this section, make an order (h) directing that within. a certain time to be named in such order certain means are to be adopted by the occupier for the purpose of bringing his factory into conformity with this section; the Court may upon application enlarge any time appointed for the adoption of the means directed by the order, but any noncompliance with the order of the Court shall, after the expiration of the time as originally limited or enlarged by subsequent order, be deemed to be a continuing offence, and to be punishable by a penalty not exceeding one pound for every day that such non-compliance continues (i).

penalties are recoverable before justices, like other penalties under the Factory Acts. See s. 7, infra, and n. (y) there.

(g) See the definition of the term "Court." Id.

(k) For a form of this order, see Oke's "Formulist," 431 (No. 4). (i) It may here be observed, that provision has been made, under the Public Health Acts, for securing sufficient water-closet or privy accommodation in factories; it having been enacted, that where it appears to the Local Board of Health of a district, upon the report of the surveyor, that any house is used, or intended to be used, as a factory, or building in which persons of both sexes, and above twenty in number, are employed, or intended to be employed at one time in any manufacture, trade, or business, the said Local Board shall have power, if they shall think fit, by notice in writing to the owner or occupier of such house, to require them, or either of them, within a time to be specified in such notice, to construct a sufficient number of water-closets or privies for the separate use of each sex; and whosoever neglects or refuses to comply with any such notice, shall be liable for each default to a penalty not exceeding £20, and a further penalty not exceeding forty shillings for every day during which

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