S.I. No. 167/1956 - Factories (Home Work - Certain Bead Ornaments) Regulations, 1956.

I, WILLIAM NORTON, Minister for Industry and Commerce, in pursuance of sections 91 and 92 of the Factories Act, 1955 (No. 10 of 1955), hereby make the following regulations :

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Factories (Home Work—Certain Bead Ornaments) Regulations, 1956.

(2) These Regulations shall come into operation on the 1st day of October, 1956.

2. Section 91 of the Factories Act, 1955 (No. 10 of 1955), (which relates to the keeping of lists of outworkers in certain trades) and section 92 of that Act (which relates to employment of persons in unwholesome premises) shall apply in the case of persons employed in the assembly of articles of personal adornment composed of beads of any description.

3. The lists of outworkers directly employed by the occupier of a factory and by every contractor employed by him, required by section 91 of the Factories Act, 1955 , to be kept, shall be kept in the form and manner and with the particulars specified in the Schedule to these Regulations.

SCHEDULE

A correct list of outworkers employed in the assembly of articles of personal adornment composed of beads of any description shall be kept, in the form and containing the particulars specified below, in the factory from which the work is given out and shall be open to inspection by an inspector or an officer of the sanitary authority.

In order that the list may be correct, the name of any person newly taken into such employment shall be immediately entered, and the name of any person ceasing from such employment shall be immediately struck out, but this shall be without prejudice to the obligation of an occupier or contractor under paragraph (c) of subsection (1) of section 91 of the Factories Act, 1955 , to send to the sanitary authority during the month of February and the month of August in each year a list showing all the outworkers employed by him in the preceding six months.

		Full postal address.......................................
Factory from which the work is given out.		Business......................................................
	Name of occupier..........................................

List of persons directly employed by.......................................* in the business of, but outside, the above factory in the class of work specified above.

*Here insert name of employer and state whether such employer is the occupier or a contractor employed by the occupier.

Name in full

Whether employed as Workman (W) or Contractor (C)

Place of Employment,i.e., place where the work is actually done.

Address. (No entry need be made in this column if the entry in column (3) is a sufficient address.)

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GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 4th day of July, 1956.

WILLIAM NORTON,

Minister for Industry and Commerce.