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Print works. Any premises in which any persons are employed to print figures, patterns, or designs upon any cotton, linen, woolen, worsted, or silken yarn, or upon any woven or felted fabric not being paper: placed first on the list of 'non-textile factories,' and regulated as such by the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901 (1 Edw. 7, c. 22), 'letter-press print works' being in the same list (Sch. Vi.) described separately as 'any premises in which the process of letter-press printing is carried on....
Restaurant
Restaurant, as any tavern, public house or place trading for profit by provision to the public of food or refreshment with or without entertainment, Grape Bay Ltd. v. Attorney-General of Bermud, (2000) 1 WLR 574.Means any premises in which is carried on principally or wholly the business of supplying meals or refreshments to the public or a class of the public for consumption on the premises but does not include a restaurant attached to a theatre. [Weekly Holidays Act, 1942 (18 of 1942), s. 2 (c)]...
Nuisance
Nuisance [fr. nuire, Fr., to hurt], something noxious of offensive. Any unauthorised act which, without direct physical interference, materially impairs the use and enjoyment by another of his property, or prejudicially affects his health, comfort, or convenience, is a nuisance.Nuisance may be distinguished from negligence in that nuisance is an act or omission causing injury, the injury itself giving rise to an action for damages, while a person suffering from damage due to negligence must prove that the damage was caused by some want of care, according to its degree which was required in the particular circumstances of the case. Actions against persons or public undertakings for damage under statutory powers are generally founded on negligence. Where the actual method of exercising the power creating a nuisance is indicated by the statute negligence in the authorised method may be actionable. The onus appears to be on a defendant pleading that the nuisance was inevitable and compulso...
Theatre
Theatre, a place kept for the public performance of stage-plays (see STAGE-PLAY), which expression includes 'every tragedy, comedy, farce, opera, burletta, interlude, pantomine, or other entertain-ment of the stage.' By the Theatres Act, 1843 (6 & 7 Vict. c. 68), such a place may not be had or kept without a licence from the Lord Chanberlain of the Household of the sovereign in the metropolis, and from the justices of the peace elsewhere, s. 2 of the Act enacting that:-2. It shall not be lawful for any person to have or keep any house or other place of public resort in Great Britain, for the public performance of stage plays, without authority by virtue of letters-patent from Her Majesty, her heirs and successors, or predecessors, or without licence from the Lord Chamberlain of Her Majesty's household for the time being, or from the justices of the peace as hereinafter provided; and every person who shall offend against this enactment shall be liable to forfeit such sum as shall be awa...
Bleaching and Dyeing
Bleaching and Dyeing. These works were at first regulated by 23 & 24 Vict. c. 78; 25 & 26 Vict. c. 8; 26 & 27 Vict. c. 38; and 27 &28 Vict. c. 98. By 33 & 34 Vict. c. 62, however, all these Acts are repealed after January 1, 1872, and the (English) Factory Acts made to apply to them; and they are now regulated, along with other factories, by the consolidating (English) Factory and Workshop Act, 1901 (1 Edw. 7, c. 22). By Schedule VI., bleaching and dyeing works are a non-textile factory and are defined as 'any premises in which the process of bleaching, beetling, dyeing, calendering, finishing, hooking, lapping, and making up and packing any yarn or cloth of any material or the dressing or finishing of lace or any one or more of such processes or any process incidental thereto are or is carried on.' S. 28 deals with hours of employment; s. 40 deals with mealtimes; and s. 53 with overtime employment. See FACTORY....
Dairy
Dairy.--By the (English) Public Health Acts Amendment Act, 1907, s. 13--The expression 'dairy' includes any farm, farmhouse, cowshed, milk store, milk shop, or other place from which milk is supplied or in which milk is kept for the purposes of sale within (unless otherwise expressed) the district of the local authority:By the same Act dairymen must furnish (s. 53) a list of their sources of supply, and notify (s. 54) when any infectious disease exists among their servants.As to the power of the Ministers of Health and Agriculture and Fisheries to make orders for the registration of dairymen and regulations for carrying on their trade, see the (English) Milk and Dairies (Consolidation) Act, 1915, and the (English) Milk and Dairies (Amendment) Act, 1922, as amended by the (English) Milk Act, 1934, amending and consolidating the general law on the subject of dairies and the milk trade. See also (English) Sale of Goods (Weights and Measures) Act, 1926 (16 & 17 Geo. 5, c. 63) and the (Engl...
Installation
Installation, means any premises wherein any place has been specially prepared for the manufacture (filling) or storage of compressed gas cylinder. [Gas Cylinders Rule, 2004, R. 2(xxviii)]Installation, the ceremony of inducting or investing with any charge, office, or rank, as the placing of a bishop into his see, a dean or prebendary into his stall or seat, or a knight into his order.Means any composite electrical unit used for the purpose of generating, transforming, transmitting, converting, distributing or utilizing energy. [Indian Electricity Rules, 1956, R. 2 (1) (y)]...
Trade effluent
Trade effluent, includes any liquid, gaseous or solid substance which is discharged from any premises used for carrying on any industry operation or process, or treatment and disposal system, other than domestic sewage. [Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974 (6 of 1974), s. 2 (k)]...
Electrical plant
Electrical plant, s. 2(22) 'electrical plant' means any plant, equipment, apparatus or appliance or any part thereof used for, or connected with, the generation, transmission, distribution or supply of electricity but does not include:-(a) an electric line; or(b) a meter used for ascertaining the quantity of electricity supplied to any premises; or(c) an electrical equipment, apparatus or appliance under the control of a consumer. [Electricity Act, 2003 (36 of 2003), s. 2(22)]...
Horses
Horses. The buying of stolen horses is attempted to be checked by 2 & 3 P. & M. c. 7 and 31 Eliz. c. 12, which require a record of sales at markets; see, as to these Acts, Moran v. Pitt, (1873) 42 LJ QB 47. As to the limitation of the liability of railway and canal companies for the carriage of horses, see s. 7 of the Railway and Canal Traffic Act, 1854 (17 & 18 Vict. c. 31). As to larceny of horses, see Larceny Act, 1916, s. 3.Cruelty to horses is punishable on summary convic-tion by fine or imprisonment, under the Protection of Animals Act, 1911, s. 1, as amended by the Protection of Animals, etc., Act. 1912, and 9 & 10 Geo. 5, c. 54, requiring the use of anesthetics in certain cases.The slaughter of injured horses by, or by order of, the police is authorized by the same Act, s. 11; while the business of a 'knackers,' defined as a person whose trade it is to kill horses, is strictly regulated by ss. 5 and 6 of the Act and the regulations in the First Schedule thereto. As to Scotland,...
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