[87 Vict. ] Factory Acts Amendment. 
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Amend the Factory Acts. A.D. 1874. 
Vy anna it is expedient to amend the Acts relating to the 
employment of children, young persons, and women in 
certain factories : 
Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and 
5 with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, 
and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the 
authority of the same, as follows : 
1. This Act shall apply to any factory as defined in * The Factory Application 
Act, 1844,” as amended by the Act of the ninth and tenth of °f Act 
10 Her Majesty, chapter forty, and by the Act of the twenty-fourth 
and twenty-fifth of Her Majesty, chapter one hundred and seventeen, 
and shall not apply to any factory other than as aforesaid. 
2. The following provisions shall have effect with respect to the Amendment 
employment of children, young persons, and females in factories to of Factory 
15 which this Act applies ; namely, Acts 
(1.) A young person or female shall not, except in recovering 
lost time, be employed in any factory for more than fifty- 
four hours in any week, or for more than nine hours and a 
half in any day : 
90 (2.) A child shall not, except in recovering lost time, or in cases 
where children may work on alternate days, be employed 
in any factory for more than five hours and a half in any 
day; and a child shall not, except in recovering lost time, 
be employed for more than ¢hirfy-three hours in any 
925 week : 
(3.) A child, young person, or female shall not, either for 
recovery of lost time or for any other purpose, be employed 
in any factory before seven o'clock in the morning in any 
day: Provided that this prohibition shall not affect the 
provisions of the Act of the twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth 
of Her Majesty, chapter one hundred and seventeen, with 
respect to the employment of youths in lace factories : 
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