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Factories Act 1937
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35Regulations and byelaws as to means of escape in case of fire.
(1)The Secretary of State may make regulations as to the means of escape in case of fire to be provided in factories or any class or description of factory.
It shall be the duty of the district council to see that the regulations are complied with, and the provisions of Part I of this Act as to the power to act in default of a district council shall apply in the case of any default of the district council under this subsection.
(2)If a certificate has been issued under the last foregoing section in respect of a factory which is not in conformity with the regulations under this section, the district council shall serve a notice on the occupier of the factory requiring him to make, within a specified period, such alterations as they consider necessary to bring the factory into conformity with the regulations, and the provisions of the last foregoing section shall apply in relation to any such notice as they apply to a notice of the district council under that section.
(3)Every district council shall, in addition to any powers which they possess with reference to the prevention of fire, have power to make byelaws as to the means of escape in case of fire to be provided in factories or any class or description of factory, but such byelaws shall be void in so far as they contain any provisions inconsistent with any regulations made by the Secretary of State under this section.
(4)The Minister of Health shall be the confirming authority for any byelaws made by a district council under this section.
(5)This section shall in its application to the administrative county of London have effect as if references to the London County Council were therein substituted for references to the district council, except in the last foregoing subsection which shall not apply to London, and as if the matters with respect to which byelaws may be made under this section were included in the matters with respect to which the London County Council may make byelaws under section four of the [25 & 26 Geo. 5. c. xcii.] London Building Act (Amendment) Act, 1935, and as if any byelaws made under this section were made under the said section four.
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