§ 48. Mr. John Hyndasked the Minister of Labour whether, as the Guide to the Factories Act, 1937, has been of great value to trade union and other bodies but is now out of print and has been superseded by the Factories Act, 1948, and many statutory instruments, he will consider publishing a new guide.
§ Mr. IsaacsA guide of the kind suggested already exists in the prescribed abstract, Factory Form No. 1, which broadly summarises the main operative provisions of the 1937 Act, as amended by the 1948 Act. I am having this abstract printed in leaflet form.
§ Mr. HyndIs the Minister aware that the 1937 guide has been of inestimable value to works councils and trade union bodies, and if the new extract to which he refers will give the precise and concise information necessary it will be received with great satisfaction all over the country?
§ Mr. IsaacsWe did not want to go to the length of reprinting the old abstract, and if, when my hon. Friend sees the extract, he does not think it covers the entire field, perhaps he will have a word with me to see what can be done.