CONTENTS PAGE. British Colonies: NATIONAL LABOUR LEGISLATION. Victoria: Factories and Shops Act, 1912. 31st December, 1912. Act to further amend the Mines Act. 17th February, 1914 Factories and Shops Acts Amendment Act, 1914. 2nd November, 1914 [Also titles of Acts respecting friendly societies, compensation, railway service hut accommodation, public service, factories and shops, inspection of boilers and workers' dwellings.] France: Decree respecting dangerous work prohibited to women and children. Germany: Notification respecting the sale of potash. 2nd February, 1914 Portugal: Act respecting the working day of commercial employees. 22nd Act respecting the working day in industrial undertakings. 22nd January, 1915. Switzerland: CANTONS: 103 105 106 106 106 109 Zurich (Town): Order respecting the giving out of contracts for work and 112 Fribourg: Decree respecting the regulation of the Cantonal Labour Exchange. 26th Basle Town: Decree respecting night-work for apprentices. 14th May, 1914 Order respecting building operations. 27th June, 1914. II. WAR EMERGENCY LEGISLATION. List of Countries : GERMANY. BELGIUM. DENMARK. FRANCE. GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. ITALY. NETHERLANDS. ROUMANIA. RUSSIA. SWEDEN. SWITZERLAND (a) Federation. Solothurn. Bulletin OF THE INTERNATIONAL LABOUR OFFICE [NOTE.-The German, French, and English editions of the Bulletin are referred to as G.B., F.B., and E.B., respectively.] National Labour Legislation 1. LAWS AND ORDERS I. British Colonies VICTORIA. 1. An Act to further amend the Friendly Societies Act, 1907 (No. 2317). 4th September, 1911. 2. An Act relating to the pension and compensation rights of certain officers and employees in the Railway Service and the reinstatement of certain persons in the Railway Service and for other purposes (No. 2329). 20th October, 1911. 3. An Act to insure the better provision of hut accommodation for shearers and others. (No. 2341). 24th October, 1911. 4. An Act to further amend the Public Service Acts and for other purposes (No. 2383). 2nd December, 1912. 5. An Act to consolidate the law relating to the supervision and regulation of factories and shops (No. 2386). 7th December, 1912.* 6. An Act to amend the Boilers Inspection Act, 1906 (No. 2436). 31st December, 1912. 7. An Act to amend the Factories and Shops Act, 1912 (No. 2447). 31st December, 1912. I. This Act may be cited as the Factories and Shops Act, 1912 (No. 2), and shall be read and construed as one with the Factories and Shops Act, 1912 (hereinafter called the Principal Act), which Act and this Act may be cited together as the Factories and Shops Act. * See footnote on page 87. Special Boards. 2. (1) In addition to the powers it already possesses, the Special Board heretofore appointed and called the Hotel Employees' Board is hereby given power to either (a) fix prices and rates to be paid to employees without taking into consideration either board or lodging; or (b) fix prices and rates to be paid to employees varying according to whether full or partial board or lodging is received by the employee. (2) When the Board makes a Determination having exercised either of these powers, it shall be an offence for any employer to accept any payment from any employee under the jurisdiction of the said Board for either board or lodging. 3. For §166 of the Principal Act there shall be substituted the following Section : 166. No Determination of a Special Board shall prevent the sons or daughters of any employer being employed by him in any capacity, whether he has or has not the full number of apprentices and improvers, and he shall not be bound to pay his sons and daughters the rates fixed by any Determination." Apprentices and Improvers. 4. §185 of the Principal Act is hereby repealed. Holidays. 5. With regard to any process, trade, business or occupation for which there is no yearly holiday fixed in the Factories and Shops Acts, the following provisions shall have effect: (1) Where a petition is presented to the Governor in Council praying that any particular day in each year shall be a holiday in any such process, trade, business, or occupation, either throughout Victoria or in any part thereof, and the Chief Inspector certifies that the petition is signed by a majority of the employers and a majority of the employees to be affected, the Governor in Council may (a) grant the prayer of the petition according to the terms thereof or with such alterations or modifications as he thinks fit; and make regulations fixing a holiday in each year accordingly; or (b) refuse to grant the prayer of the petition. (2) Every employer affected by any such regulation shall give to every employee working for him in connection with such process, trade, business or occupation a whole holiday in each year on the date so fixed. 6. Notwithstanding anything in the Factories and Shops Acts, the Governor in Council, upon receiving a petition, signed and certified as required for petitions praying for the fixing by regulations of a holiday in each year for any process, trade, business or occupation, may make regulations substituting a day to be a holiday in each year for any process trade, business or occupation in lieu of the day fixed for that purpose in the Factories and Shops Act. An Act to enable Municipal Councils to provide workers' dwellings and for other purposes (No. 2479). 3rd February, 1914. 9. An Act to further amend the Mines Act and for other purposes (No. 2489). 17th February, 1914. 31. For $130 of the Mines Act, 1897, there shall be substituted the following Section: 130. (1) Boys shall not be employed underground in any mine. (2) Boys under the age of 14 years shall not be employed about any mine and females shall not be employed in, on or about any mine. (3) No boy under the age of 18 years shall be employed in caging or uncaging trucks or skips on cages or as a lander or bracemen. (4) If it appears that a boy was employed on the representation of his parent or guardian that he was of the age at which his employment would not be in contravention of the Mines Acts, and under the belief in good faith that he was of that age, the owner and manager of the mine shall be exempted from any penalty, and the parent or guardian (as the case may be) shall for the misrepresentation be deemed guilty of an offence against the Mines Acts." 32. The owner or manager of every mine shall keep in the office at the mine a register, and shall cause to be entered in that register, in such form as the regulations prescribe or sanction, the name, age, residence and date of first employment of all boys employed above ground in connection with the mine; and shall, on request, produce the register to any inspector of mines, who shall note therein the result of his examination of such register and the date thereof. 33. (1) If any person contravenes or fails to comply with, or permits any person to contravene or fail to comply with, any provision of the Mines Acts with respect to the employment of boys, or to the register of boys, or the production of the register as aforesaid, he shall be guilty of an offence against Division I of Part III. of the Mines Act, 1897. (2) In the event of any such contravention or non-compliance by any person whomsoever the owner and manager of the mine shall each be guilty of an offence against the said Division, unless he proves that he had taken all reasonable means by publishing and to the best of his power enforcing the provisions of the Mines Acts to prevent the contravention or non-compliance. 10. An Act to provide for compensation to workers for injuries occurring in the course of their employment (No. 2496). 20th February, 1914. 11. An Act to further amend the Factories and Shops Act, 1912 (No. 2558). 2nd November, 1914.* *The Act published here is an amendment of the Factories and Shops Act, 1912, No. 2386 (for Title see No. 5 above). For lack of space it was impossible to print that extensive consolidating Act. The following synopsis will enable readers of the BULLETIN to trace the amended Sections in earlier numbers of the BULLETIN. Table A shows from which Sections of earlier Acts the several Sections of the Consolidating Act (referred to as the Principal Act) originate; Table B gives the reference numbers of these earlier Acts together with the volume and page of the BULLETIN where they are to be found. For instance: 2 =2 (1975) in Table A means that §2 of the Principal Act corresponds to §2 of the Act No. 1975, which is shown in Table B to have been printed in the E.B. II., p. 38. = = = = = = = Table A..—2 = 2 (1975); 6 ·6 (1975), 4 (2008); 10 = 9 (1975), 12 (2305); 12 = 24 (1975); 15 = 12 (1975); 24 26 (1975), 5 (2008); 26 = 7 (2008); 37 = 40 (1975), 8 (2008); 38 = 42 (1975), 9 and 10 (2008); 55 = 52 (1975); 56 = 19 (2395); 59 = 58 (1975), 23 (2305); 60 = 59 (1975); 61 60 (1975); 62 = = 35 (2137); 63 = 61 (1975); 64 = 62 (1975); 68 = 66 (1975); 79 25 (2008); 80 26 (2008); 81 = 22 (2008), 27 (2137), 22 (2241), 28 (2305); 82 = 22, 24 (2008), 27 (2137); 83 23, 24 (2008), 22 (2241); 84 26 (2137); 85 = 6 (2177), 27 (2241), 33 (2305); 86 26 (2008); 87 = 24 (2008); 96 127 (1975); 98 128 (1975), 20 (2008), 13 and 20 (2241); 99 129 (1975); 100 = 130 (1975); 101 = 131 (1975); 102 = 132 (1975), 14 and 15 (2241); 111 = 34 (2008); 112 = 7 (2184); 113 35 (2241); 114 146 (1975), 29 (2008), 22 and 23 (2137), 18 and 37 (2241), 47 and 48 (2305); 118 145 (1975), 28 (2008), 21 (2137); 119 = 20 (2137), 37 (2241), 45 (2305); 120 = 128 (1975); 121 = 20 (2137), 37 (2241), 45 (2305); 125 37 (2137); 127 = 40 (2137), 38 and 39 (2305); 130 = 42 (2305); 135 (2305); 136 = 76 (1975), 9 (2137), 7 (2305); 137 141 = = 87, 90 (1975), 9, 10, 31 (2241), 5 (2305); 157 = 120 (1975), 14 (2137); 177 = = = 16 (2008), 2 = = 124 (1975); 178 = € 77 (1975), 10 (2137), 2 and 8 (2305); 38 (2241); 170 = 113 (1975); 174 125 (1975); 181 = 33 (2137); 190 = |