FACTORIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1965 - SECT 134 Prohibition of home work in places where there is infectious disease.

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FACTORIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1965 - SECT 134

Prohibition of home work in places where there is infectious disease.

134.(1) If any inmate of a house is suffering from an infectious disease to
which this section applies, the [Health and Social Services Board] for the
area in which the house is situate may make an order forbidding any work to
which this section applies to be given out to any person living or working in
that house, or such part thereof as may be specified in the order, and any
order so made may be served on the occupier of any factory, or any other place
from which work is given out, or on the contractor employed by any such
occupier.

(2) The order may be made notwithstanding that the person suffering from an
infectious disease may have been removed from the house, and the order shall
be made either for a specified time or subject to the condition that the house
or part thereof liable to be infected shall be disinfected to the satisfaction
of the [chief administrative medical officer of the
Health and Social Services Board], or that other reasonable precautions shall
be adopted.

(3) In any case of urgency the powers conferred on the [Health and Social
Services Board] by this section may be exercised by any two or more members of
the [Board] acting on the advice of the [chief administrative medical officer
of the Health and Social Services Board].

(4) If any occupier or contractor on whom an order under this section has been
served contravenes the provisions of the order, he shall be guilty of an
offence.

(5) The infectious diseases to which this section applies are the infectious
diseases required to be notified under the law for the time being in force in
relation to the notification of infectious diseases, and the work to which
this section applies is the making, cleaning, washing, altering, ornamenting,
finishing and repairing of wearing apparel and any work incidental thereto,
and such other classes of work as may be specified by order of the Ministry.

Particulars of work and wages to be given to piece-workers.

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FACTORIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1965 - SECT 134