Factories Act 1948

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Factories Act 1948 [a]
Act of Parliament
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Long title An Act to amend the Factories Act, 1937, and provide for matters consequential on the amendment of that Act.
Citation 11 & 12 Geo. 6. c. 55
Territorial extent  United Kingdom
Dates
Royal assent 30 July 1948
Commencement
  • 1 October 1948: Sections 1–5 and 11–14
  • 1 October 1950: Section 6
  • 30 July 1948: rest of act
[b]
Repealed1 April 1962
Other legislation
AmendsFactories Act 1937
Amended byFactories Act 1959
Repealed by Factories Act 1961
Relates to Statutory Instruments Act 1946
Status: Repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted

The Factories Act 1948 (11 & 12 Geo. 6. c. 55) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed in the United Kingdom by the Labour government of Clement Attlee. It was passed with the intention of safeguarding the health of workers. It extended the age limits for the medical examination of persons entering factory employment, while also including male workers in the regulations for providing seats and issuing extensive new building regulations. [1]

Contents

Under the act, young persons under the age of eighteen became subject to medical examination not only on entry to the place of work, but annually thereafter. Certificates of fitness were also made a requirement for young people employed in the loading, unloading and coaling of ships and other kinds of work in ships on harbour or wet dock, engineering construction and building operations as well as for factory employees. [2]

Subsequent developments

The whole act was repealed by section 183(2) of, and the seventh schedule to, the Factories Act 1961 (9 & 10 Eliz. 2. c. 34).

See also

Factories Act,1948, India

Notes

  1. Section 16(1).
  2. Section 16(3).

References

  1. Industrialisation and society: a social history, 1830–1951 by Eric Hopkins
  2. The Social Services of Modern England (International Library of Sociology). New York: Routledge. 2003. ISBN   0-415-17725-1.