§ "(1.) A young person shall not be employed overtime in pursuance of Section 53 of the principal Art.
§ "(2.) A woman shall not be employed overtime in pursuance of Section 53 of the principal Act for more than three days in any one week, or for more than 30 days in any 12 months, and shall not be employed overtime in pursuance of Section 56 of the principal Act for more than 60 days in any 12 months; and accordingly, in Section 53 the words 'three days' and 'thirty days' shall be substituted for the words 'five days' and 'forty-eight days,' and in Section 56 the words 'sixty days' shall be substituted for the words 'ninety-six days.'
§ "(3.) Section 58 of the principal Act shall apply only to male young persons of 14 years of age or upwards, and the powers of the Secretary of State under Section 63 of the principal Act shall extend to making orders as to the total number of hours of employment in each week, the periods of employment, and the intervals between such periods, which are to be conditions of the employment of young persons at night, and to rescinding such orders.
§ "(4.) Section 58 of the principal Act shall not authorise in any factory specified in Part 6 of the Third Schedule to the principal Act, the employment during the night of young persons in any process other than a process incidental to the business of the factory as described in Part 1 of the Fourth Schedule to that Act.
139§ "(5.) Section 60 of the principal Act shall apply only to male young persons of 14 years of age and upwards, and nothing in that section shall be construed as authorising the employment of any person on Sunday.
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"(6.) For paragraph (4) of the said Section 60, shall be substituted the following Subsection:—
'(4.) Such young person shall not be employed continuously for more than five hours without an interval of at least half an hour for a meal.'
§ '(7.) Nothing in the Factory Acts shall be construed as authorising work during overtime on Saturday, or on any day substituted for Saturday as a half holiday, but work in accordance with Section 50 of the principal Act shall not be deemed work during overtime."
§ MR. ASQUITH moved, in page 6, line 20 after "shall" to insert "from and after the 1st day of January 1897." He thought that this met the point raised as to the employment of young people.
§ Amendment agreed to.
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MR. ASQUITH moved, in the same clause, to insert after Subsection 4 the following:—
(5.) A young person shall not, in pursuance of Section 59 of the principal Act, be employed more than 12 hours continuously.
This Amendment also, he said, was in conformity with a promise given in Committee not to employ young persons beyond a certain number of hours. He hoped the House would agree to it.
§ Amendment agreed to.
§ MR. ASQUITH moved, in the same clause, page 6, line 33 after "shall" to insert "from and after the 1st January, 1897."
§ Amendment agreed to.
§ Clause 16:—