The Statutes Of Practical Utility

Author : Joseph Chitty
Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN 13 : 9781230090788
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book The Statutes of Practical Utility [1235-1895]; Arranged in Alphabetical and Chronological Order written by Joseph Chitty and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 edition. Excerpt: ...1892 Whereas the health of many young persons employed in shops and warehouses is seriously injured by reason of the length of the period of employment: Be rr rnsnsrons ENACTED as follows (q): 1. This act may be cited as " The Shop Hours Act, 1892." 2. This act shall come into operation on the first day of September, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two. 8.--(l) No young person shall be employed in or about a shop for a longer period than seventy-four hours, including meal times, in any one week. (2) No young person shall to the knowledge of his employer be employed in or about a shop having been previously on the same day employed in any factory or workshop, as defined by the Factory and Workshop Act, 1878 (1'), for the number of hours permitted by the said act or for a longer period than will together with the time during which he has been so previously employed complete such number of hours. 4. In every shop in which a young person is employed a notice shall be kept exhibited by the employer in a conspicuous place referring to the provisions of this act and stating the number of hours in the week during which a young person may lawfully be employed in that shop (s). 5. Where any young person is employed in or about a shop contrary to the provisions of this act, the employer shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one pound for each person so employed (1) This act re-enacts and perpetuates, with the new and very important insertion of s. 8 as to inspection, and with a few verbal alterations, the temporary Shop Hours Regulation Act, 1886 (49 6: . 50 Vict. c. 55). The act of 1886 was first limited to expire at the end of the session after 31st Dsc., 1888, but was in 1888 and afterwards continued by annual Expiring Laws...