TENEMENT FACTORY.—This expression is defined by the Factory Act, 1901, as "a factory where mechanical power is supplied to different parts of the same building occupied by different persons for the purpose of any manufacturing process or handicraft, in such manner that those parts constitute in law separate factories ; and, for the purpose of the provisions of this Act with respect to tenement factories, all buildings situate within the same close or curtilage shall be treated as one building." Certain statutory regulations with regard to grinding cutlery in a tenement factory are referred to in the article on HARDWARE AND CUTLERY. Here will be noticed the duties of the owner of a tenement factory. Whether he is or is not one of the occupiers he is liable, instead of the occupier, for the observance of certain provisions of the Factory Act, and if he should fail to observe any of those provisions he renders himself liable to punishment. The provisions referred to relate to—.(i.) the cleanliness, freedom from effluvia, overcrowding and ventilation of factories, contained in Section I. of the Factory Act, including, so far as they relate to any engine-house, passage, or staircase, or to any room which is let to more than one tenant, the provisions with respect to limewashing and washing of the interior of a factory ; (ii.) the fencing of machinery, and penal compensation for neglect
to fence machinery in a factory, except so far as relates to such parts of the machinery as are supplied by the owner; (iii.) the notices to be affixed in a factory with respect to the period of employment, times for meals and system of employment of children; (iv.) the prevention of the inhalation of dust, gas, vapour or other impurity, so far as that provision requires the supply of pipes or other contrivances necessary for working the fan or other means for that purpose ; and (v.) the affixing of an abstract and notices in a factory. But any occupier may affix in his own tenement the notice with respect to the period of employment, times for meals and system of employ ment of children ; and thereupon that notice, so far as regards persons employed by that occupier, has effect in substitution for the corresponding notice affixed by the owner. The provisions of the Act with respect to the power to make orders in the case of dangerous premises apply in the case of a tenement factory as if the owner were substituted for the occupier. A certificate of the fitness of a young person or child for employment in a tenement factory is valid for his similar employment in any part of the same tenement factory. See FACTORIES.