Where the age of any person is required to be ascertained or proved for the purposes of this Act, any person shall, on presenting a written requisition in such form and containing such particulars as F2the Secretary of State or, as respects Scotland, the Secretary of State may by regulations prescribe and on payment of a fee of F3£1.50F4£3.00F5£4.00, be entitled to obtain a certified extract under the hand of a registrar or superintendent registrar of births and deaths of the entry in the register under the M1Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953 or F6the M2Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Scotland) Act 1965 of the birth of that person.

A form of such a requisition shall on request be supplied without charge by every superintendent registrar and registrar of births and deaths.

Any regulations, rules or orders made under this Act shall be made by statutory instrument, except an order applicable only to particular persons, premises, boilers, employment, operations or work or to persons employed at particular premises or on work supervised from particular premises.

Any statutory instrument containing regulations under this Act shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.

Any power conferred by this Act to make regulations, rules or orders shall include power to make different provisions in relation to different circumstances.

Any power conferred by this Act to make an order shall include power to revoke such an order by a subsequent order F8and the provisions of section 50 of the M3Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 shall apply to any such power which is exercisable by statutory instrument as they apply to a power to make regulations.

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Any power conferred by this Act to prescribe standards or impose requirements shall include power to do so by reference to the approval of the chief inspector F10or of the chief employment medical adviser or a deputy chief employment medical adviser.

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Any regulations or order made by the Minister under this Act may be made for a limited period or without limit of period and may be made subject to such conditions as he thinks fit, and may contain such supplemental and consequential provisions as he considers necessary for giving full effect to the regulations or order.

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The provisions contained in the Fifth Schedule to this Act (being provisions of the M4Factory and Workshop Act 1901 which do not apply in England . . . F11, set out with the necessary modifications) shall have effect in Scotland and . . . F11 in lieu of the corresponding provisions repealed by the M5Factories Act 1937 . . . F12

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The provisions of this section shall, in addition to any express provision for the application to Scotland of any provision of this Act, have effect for the general application of this Act to Scotland.

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All matters required by this Act to be published in the London Gazette shall, if they relate to Scotland, be published in the Edinburgh Gazette either in addition or in substitution, as the case may require.

Any offence against this Act for which the maximum penalty that may be imposed does not exceed ten pounds may be prosecuted in any court of summary jurisdiction within the meaning of the F16M6Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 having jurisdiction in the place where the offence was committed.

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Every person convicted of an offence against this Act may be found liable in expenses.

Section twenty-nine of the M7Public Health (Scotland) Act 1897 shall not apply in relation to any factory within the meaining of this Act.

Any powers exercisable by an inspector appointed by a county or town council (or, on or after 16th May 1975, by an islands or district council) under section 19 of the M8Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 shall, for the purposes of their duties under the Public Health (Scotland) Act 1897, extend to factories within the meaning of that Act.

This Act shall have effect subject to the provisions of the Sixth Schedule to this Act.

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Nothing in this Act shall affect the definition of the expressions “factory” and “workshop” for the purposes of the M9Rating and Valuation (Apportionment) Act 1928 but save as aforesaid references in any enactment to a factory or workshop within the meaning of the Factory and Workshop Acts 1901 to 1929, or any of those Acts, shall be construed as references to a factory within the meaning of this Act.

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This Act may be cited as the Factories Act 1961.

This Act shall come into force on the first day of April, nineteen hundred and sixty-two.

This Act, except subsections (1) and (2) of section seventy-seven . . . F22, does not extend to Northern Ireland.