FACTORY BILL

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24960, 22 August 1946, Page 4

FACTORY BILL

” MANUFACT OBJECTIONS POWERS OF INSPECTOR IN QUESTION Features of the Factory Amende? Bill to which objections were were reported to the council <n » Canterbury Manufacturers Assocuu® last evening by Mr B. J. fasten," chairman of the association s couw tee which dealt with the.bHL t The committee, he said, had 4o clause 55, section 2, giving w * spector power to make decisions space allowed a person; to clause » section 6, giving the inspector to require an occupier to P ro .y® canteen (where employees couioyw chase meals) where employee! wig ing meals, numbered more than i to clause 67, section 7, giving! spector power to require ing-room accommodation for won« and to clause 91, section 1. by an inspector did not need to pr° identity as such when 'layingwj formation or making a complain any offence under the act. , Many of the clauses were not aeiw in a specific manner, Mr Master* ported, and the committee ha® . gested that with the ajn°J» formation available to-day the c . could be more definite, and . should not be necessary to na>e many provisions whereby an had power to make numg* It was recommended to W ration, he said, that steps taken to ensure that no reflß under the act should be! »»»«*« they had first been discuweor workers’ and employers or JJ n 1?f 4 e fl including the Manufacturers tl It' was also recommended cause of present-day conditions sonable time limit, say ny e r ( should be given for all struc terations required under the ■ # Mr W. A. Bascand ft association) said that it 1 the bill was left to be dealt Order-in-Council without due scr ( by the elected representatives people. It was just a " -ffldi the powers of control of Sta That was part of the P ro £ ai ? I tie qui ently accepted to-day, but he « tioned the wisdom of »•