(b) Has received a certificate or has been registered in accordance with rules from time to time laid down by the Trade Board and held subject to compliance with the conditions contained in this Section, or has made an application for such certificate or registration, which has been duly acknowledged and is still under consideration. Provided that the certification or registration of a learner may be cancelled if the other conditions of learnership are not complied with. Provided that an employer may employ a female learner on her first employment, in the branch or branches of the trade as above described, without a certificate or registration for a probation period not exceeding four weeks, but in the event of such learner being continued thereafter at her employment the probation period shall be included in her period of learnership. Provided that notwithstanding compliance with the conditions contained in this Section a person shall not be deemed to be a learner if she works in a room used for dwelling purposes and is not in the employment of her parent or guardian. (b) REGULATIONS MADE BY THE Board of Trade UNDER SECTION 18 OF THE TRADE BOARDS ACT, 1909, AS TO MODE OF GIVING NOTICE (S. R. & O., 1910, No. 430) 1. In these Regulations the following expressions shall have the respective meanings hereby assigned to them : "The Gazette" shall mean the London, Edinburgh, or Dublin Gazette, or one or more of them as the case may require. "Person shall include any body of persons corporate or unincorporate. "Employer" shall include person as hereby defined. 2. When a Trade Board proposes to fix, cancel, or vary a minimum rate of wages for time-work, or a general minimum rate of wages for piece-work in a particular trade it shall(a) Send a notice to all employers of labour engaged in the particular trade, so far as their names and addresses are known to the Trade Board, setting out the rate proposed to be fixed and requiring objections to be lodged with the Trade Board within three months; and shall also (b) Insert a statement of their intention to fix such rate in the Gazette, intimating that on application made to the Trade Board information will (if in the opinion of the Trade Board the applicant is a person likely to be affected by such rate) be given as to the rate proposed to be fixed, and that objections can be lodged with the Trade Board within the time specified in the statement aforesaid. 3. Every occupier of a factory or workshop or of any place used for giving out work to out-workers shall, on receipt of the notice mentioned in sub-paragraph (a) of the last preceding Regulation, post up a sufficient number of true copies thereof in prominent positions in every factory, workshop, or place used for giving out work, and in such a manner as to ensure that in each case the notice shall be brought to the knowledge of all workers employed by him who are affected thereby. 4. When a rate has been fixed, the Trade Board shall forward notice of the rate so fixed to every occupier as aforesaid, so far as their names and addresses are known to the Trade Board. 5. Every occupier, as aforesaid, shall, on receipt of the notice mentioned in the last preceding Regulation, post up a sufficient number of true copies thereof in prominent positions in every factory, workshop, or place used for giving out work, and in such a manner as to ensure that in each case the notice shall be brought to the knowledge of all workers employed by him who are affected thereby. APPENDIX III (CHAPTER VIII.) WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION ACT, 1906 (a) REGULATIONS AS TO INDUSTRIAL DISEASES, WITH SCHEDULE OF DISEASES. ORDER (S. R. & O., 1913, No. 814) of the SECRETARY OF STATE, DATED JULY 30, 1913, AS AMENDED BY AN ORDER OF 1st JULY, 1914 (S. R. & O., 1914, No. 1507) (1) Subject to the modifications hereinafter specified, the provisions of Section 8 of the Workmen's Compensation Act, 1906, shall extend and apply to the diseases, injuries, and processes, specified in the first and second columns of the Schedule annexed to this Order, as if the said diseases and injuries were included in the first column of the Third Schedule to the Act, and as if the said processes were set opposite in the second column of that Schedule to the diseases or injuries to which they are set opposite in the second column of the Schedule annexed hereto. (2) A glass-worker suffering from cataract shall be entitled to compensation under the provisions of the said section, as applied by this Order, for not more than six months in all, and for not more than four months, unless he has undergone an operation for cataract. (3) A person suffering from writer's cramp shall be entitled to compensation under the provisions of the said section, as applied by this Order, for not more than twelve months. (4) In the application of the provisions of Section 8 to telegraphist's cramp, so far as regards a workman employed by the Postmaster-General, the Post Office Medical Officer under whose charge the workman is placed shall, if authorised to act for the purposes of the said section by the Postmaster-General, be substituted for the Certifying Surgeon. (5) The Orders of the 22nd May, 1907, and the 2nd December, 1908, made under Section 8, Sub-section 6, of the Workmen's Compensation Act, 1906, are hereby revoked, except as regards cases arising before the date of this Order. Description of Disease or Injury. Schedule. Description of Process. Any process involving the use of a nitro- or amido-derivative of benzene or its preparations or compounds. Any process involving the use of carbon bisulphide or its preparations or compounds. Any process in which nitrous fumes are evolved. Any process in which nickel carbonyl gas is evolved. Handling of arsenic or its preparations or compounds. Handling of lead or its preparations or compounds. Any process in the manufacture of articles from Gonioma Kamassi (African boxwood). Any process involving the use of chromic acid or bi-chromate of ammonium, potassium, or SOdium, or their preparations. Handling or use of pitch, tar, bitumen, mineral oil, or paraffin, etc., etc. II. Scrotal epithelioma (chimney- Chimney-sweeping. (b) STATISTICS AS TO CERTIFIED SCHEMES OF COMPENSATION The statistics furnished by the Chief Registrar of Friendly Societies show that on 31st December, 1913, 105 certified schemes were in operation in England and Wales as follows: In addition to these there were two schemes in force in Scotland affecting factories employing 3781 men, all of whom came under the schemes. (c) REGULATIONS, DATED OCTOBER 17, 1913, MADE BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE UNDER SECTION 12 OF THE WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION ACT, 1906, AS TO RETURNS TO BE FURNISHED EACH YEAR BY EMPLOYERS IN CERTAIN INDUSTRIES WITH RESPECT TO THE COMPENSATION PAID UNDER THE ACT DURING THE PREVIOUS YEAR 1. The industries to which Section 12 of the Act shall apply shall be the industries specified in the first schedule to these Regulations. 2. The date on or before which in every year the return required under the said section shall be sent to the Secretary of State shall be the first day of March. 3. The return shall furnish the particulars and shall be made |