TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS (FACTORIES, &c., ACTS) ORDER, 1946.
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1946 No. 376
FACTORIES
(1) Transfer of Functions (Factories, &c., Acts)
THE TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS (FACTORIES, &C., ACTS) ORDER, 1946.PRESENT,
The King's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.
His Majesty, in pursuance of subsection (1) of section one of the Ministers of the Crown (Transfer of Functions) Act, 1946 and of the proviso to subsection (1) of section one of the Emergency Laws Transitional Provisions) Act, 1946, is pleased, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:—
Short title, interpretation and commencement.
1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Transfer of Functions (Factories, &c., Acts) Order, 1946.
(2) The Interpretation Act, 1889, applies for the interpretation of this Order as it applies for the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.
(3) This Order shall come into operation on the first day of April, nineteen hundred and forty-six.
Transfer of functions under Factories Act, 1937, etc.
1 Edw. 8 & 1 Geo. 6. c. 67.
2. Regulation two of the Defence (Functions of Ministers) Regulations, 1941,(a) which transferred to the Minister of Labour and National Service all the functions of the Secretary of State under the Factories Act, 1937, under any enactment which is to be construed as one with that Act or to have effect as if it formed part of or were incorporated in that Act, and under section three of the Hours of Employment (Conventions) Act, 1936, is hereby revoked, but the said functions are hereby transferred to the said Minister:
Provided that this Article shall not transfer to the said Minister functions exercisable under any provision of the said Act of 1937 in its application to Scotland, being functions exercisable in England by the Minister of Health.
Transfer of functions under certain other enactments.
3. There are hereby transferred to the Minister of Labour and National Service the functions of the Secretary of State under—
(a) the Truck Acts, 1831 to 1940 and Regulation fifty-nine A(b) of the Defence (General) Regulations, 1939 (which empowers the making of orders authorising the payment of wages by cheque);
(b) the Anthrax Prevention Act, 1919;
(c) the Checkweighing in Various Industries Act, 1919.
Consequential provisions.
4.—(1) All property and rights held or enjoyed by the Minister from whom functions are transferred...
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