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Lords Amendment: In page 6, line 21, at end insert:
(6) It shall be the duty of the employer of persons for whom means of enabling them to warm themselves are provided in pursuance of subsection (3) of this section to afford them reasonable opportunities for using those means, and if he fails so to do he shall be guilty of an offence".
§ Mr. WhitelawI beg to move, That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said Amendment.
Where persons are employed in rooms where the maintenance of a reasonable temperature is not reasonably practicable or would cause deterioration of goods, subsection (3) of Clause 6 requires the provision of conveniently accessible and effective means of enabling them to warm themselves. But it was represented in another place that no duty was placed upon employers to give their employees reasonable opportunities of availing themselves of these alternative means of warming.
The Government sought to meet this point by the addition of the words in this Amendment, which, I believe, will strengthen the protection given to employees by this Clause.
§ Question put and agreed to.