20. The industrial authority of first instance shall be bound to communicate to the petitioner and to the competent industrial inspector, its decision in regard to the application made within 48 hours after receipt of the same at the latest (§6 of the Act).

When there is a question of granting permission for the employment of women for night work in the cases fixed in §5 of the Act, and if the circumstances of the case-as, for instance, life saving-admit of no delay, the industrial authority shall be bound to decide immediately on the matter under consideration.

The industrial authority shall further be bound to come to an immediate decision if the employer has resorted to the employment of women for night work in pursuance of $7 of the Act simultaneously with the lodging of the application, in which case it shall not only either grant or refuse to grant the said permission, but it shall also decide whether the employer was justified in resorting to the employment of women for night work without waiting for the required consent. Should the industrial authority of first instance come to the decision that he was not justified in doing so, it shall determine the necessary steps for instituting proceedings for infringement, within the meaning of §12 (b) of the Act, against the employer in question.

Should the employer apply for permission to shorten the night's rest not for isolated occasions, but for a whole season (§13), the industrial authority may, if necessary, submit in such a case the said petition to the competent Chamber of Commerce and Industry for a preliminary expression of opinion, for which said purpose it shall, however, take steps without any delay whatsoever. The Chamber of Commerce and Industry shall be bound to transmit the desired opinion to the industrial authority without delay, whereupon the latter shall be bound to come to a decision in regard to the application within 48 hours after receipt of the said opinion.

21. The under-mentioned data shall be stated in the permission granted by the industrial authority for reducing the night's rest by one hour in conformity with §3 of the Act:

(a) Name of the employer or title of the employer's firm;

(b) Kind and locality of the undertaking, the trade or work to which the said permission refers;

(c) Reasons for granting the said permission;

(d) The day or days for which the said permission has been granted. Should the permission by the industrial authority be granted for some considerable period, as, for instance, for a whole season or a whole year (§13), the employer shall be bound in the said permission to exhibit the latter (§30) in accordance with the provisions respecting regulations of working hours (§9 of the Act), as otherwise he will render himself liable to a withdrawal of the said permission (§13 of the Act).

22.

The permission for the employment of women for night work granted by the industrial authority in virtue of $5 of the Act shall state

(a) The data referred to in §21, (a) to (d);

(b) The number of women to be employed for night work, their daily working hours, the intervals of rest during the said working hours, and the duration of the uninterrupted period of rest to be granted, or in so far as full exemption from the regulations of §5, paragraph 2, of the Act has been granted, the fact that this is the case;

(c) Should the work be undertaken in shifts with weekly change of shifts, the regulations relating to the working hours and periods of rest and the intervals of rest during the working hours.

23. An interested party who is not satisfied with the decision arrived at by the industrial authority of first instance, in pursuance of §3 of the Act, with reference to the shortening of the night's rest, and in particular the employer applying for the said permission, the workers affected by the said permission, the proprietors of other similar undertakings, and, finally, the Royal industrial inspector of the district, may appeal against the decision, in accordance with the regulations relating to industrial procedure, to the industrial authority of second instance within 15 days, and against the decision of the latter to the Minister of Commerce.

Any party mentioned in paragraph I who is dissatisfied with the decision. delivered by the industrial authority in pursuance of §5 of the Act in regard to the employment of women for night work, and, in addition, the industrial district inspector may, irrespective of the legal period within which appeal may be lodged, petition for a decision by the industrial authority of second instance and thereupon for a decision by the Minister of Commerce. Should they appeal in these matters, after the same have been decided, to the authorities of first or second instance, to refer the matter to a higher authority for decision, the industrial authorities in question shall be bound to submit the application, together with the respective records immediately, without waiting for the termination of the period within which the appeals may be lodged to the competent higher industrial authority for decision.

In regard to decisions on appeals and memorials referred to in this Section, the industrial authority shall proceed irrespective of rotation.

24. Should the work in respect of which the permission has been granted in virtue of §§3 and 4 be carried on within the districts of several industrial authorities, the industrial authority of first instance acting officially shall be bound to communicate the said permission or the legal decision in regard thereto to all industrial authorities of first instance who would be competent, on account of the locality within which the work is being carried on.

Furthermore, each permission or the legal decision in regard thereto shall also be communicated to the competent Royal industrial inspector of the district (§7 of the Act).

25. If the exceptional work referred to in §5 of the Act, which necessitates the permission for the employment of women for night work, should occupy a period exceeding 14 days, the industrial authority of first instance acting officially shall submit direct to the Minister of Commerce, without delay, its decision in regard to the permission granted for a period of 14 days, as well as the petition for an extension of the said permission, together with all respective records accompanied by an exhaustive expert report.

Register to be Kept by Industrial Authorities.

26. The industrial authorities of first instance shall be bound to keep a register in conformity with the undermentioned prototype of the permissions for shortening the night's rest, in accordance with §3 of the Act, and for the employment of women for night work by way of exception in accordance with $5 of the Act (§8 of the Act).

Regulations Respecting Working Hours.

27. The employers subject to the operation of the Act shall be bound, within the meaning of §9 of the Act, to draw up rules in regard to the working hours and to submit the same in three copes to the industrial authority of first instance, for the purpose of authentication. Undertakings which were already in existence prior to the Act coming into force shall comply with the above-mentioned Order within 30 days from the date on which the Act comes into force, while those undertakings which are only established subsequently to the date on which the Act comes into force shall comply with the said requirement within 15 days from the opening of the said undertaking.

Employers who are bound to exhibit a copy of the working regulations in accordance with §113 of the Act XVII. of 1884, and who are desirous of incorporating the data instead of drawing up special regulations in regard to working hours, shall submit the working regulations correspondingly drawn up, or the appendix containing the modification, in three copies, to the industrial authority of first instance within the period fixed in the first paragraph.

28. The regulations in regard to the working hours or the working regulations shall state the hours of the women employed, the intervals for rest during the working hours, as well as the commencement and termination of the night's rest, with an accurate indication of the hours, giving this separately for each group of women, should the regulations not be identical for

all.

The stipulations of §§1, 3, 5, and 12 of the Act XIX. of 1911* shall be suitably incorporated in the regulations relating to the working hours or the working regulations (§9 of the Act).

29. The industrial authority of first instance may, if necessary, obtain the opinion of the Royal district inspectorate of industry in regard to the regulations of working hours or the modified working regulations prior to their approval or authentication.

The industrial authority of first instance shall be bound to return to the employer within 30 days the regulations in regard to the working hours or the working regulations submitted to it, after the same have been provided with the authentication clause. Should the approval of regulations in regard to the working hours or working regulations require a prolonged consideration, the industrial authority of first instance shall be empowered to authenticate the said regulations provisionally, reserving to itself the right to order any modifications which may prove necessary at a later date.

One copy of the authenticated regulations relating to working hours or working regulations shall be delivered to the employer, one copy to the competent district inspector of industry, while one copy shall remain at the registrar's office of the industrial authority of first instance.

30. The employer shall be also bound to exhibit, in the manner laid down in $9 of the Act, the decision given by the industrial authority in regard to the compulsory calculation of the working hours in pursuance of §8 of this Order, as well as the permission granted for an extended period for shortening the night's rest of women within the meaning of §13 in pursuance of the working plan, side by side with the regulations relating to the working hours and the working regulations.

* Text E.B. VII., p. 211, No: 2.

Supervision.

31. The Royal industrial inspectors shall supervise within their province, as determined by Act XXVIII. of 1893, and in accordance with the regulations standardised for the industrial supervisory procedure, the observance of the legal regulations in the undertakings specified in Sub-sections (a) and (b) of §II of the Act.

In mines and smelting works supervision shall be exercised by the mining authorities in place of the industrial inspectors, while in the industrial undertakings administered by the Royal Hungarian Ministry of Finance such supervision shall be exercised by the respective Royal administrative departments.

32. The Royal industrial inspectors shall be bound to keep a record in conformity with the prototype referred to in §26 of the permissions granted by the industrial authorities in virtue of §§3 and 5 of the Act, and to submit this record altogether with their yearly reports to the Minister of Commerce. They shall further be bound to render, in their yearly reports, a full account of the decisions given by the industrial authority in pursuance of §8 of this Order, and of the observations made by them in regard to the enforcement of the Act.

33. The industrial authorities of first instance and the authorities (§34) competent to deal with infringements defined in §13 of the Act shall likewise supervise, and in a suitable manner, as far as §§12 and 13 are concerned, the strict observance of the legal regulations and of the conditions on which permissions are granted in pursuance of §§3 and 5 of the Act. It shall, therefore, be incumbent upon them to satisfy themselves in cases where denouncements and complaints are made, and even without such being made, of the observance of the legal regulations by personally inspecting and examining the works and undertakings subject to the application of the Act.

Authorities.

34. The industrial authorities referred to in §166 of the Act XVII. of 1884 shall be competent to deal with all matters other than those relating to infringements which come within the province of the industrial authorities in accordance with this Act.

The following shall be competent to deal with all matters relating to infringements:

(1) As first instance, in small and large communes, including Rakospalota, the Chief Presiding Justice or Presiding Justice; in towns with a permanent magistrate (including Ujpest), and in municipal towns, the Chief of the Police or his deputy, or in his absence, the official appointed by the magistracy for that purpose; and finally, within the jurisdiction of Budapest, the magistracy.

(2) As second instance, in small and large communes, as well as in towns with a permanent magistracy, including Rakospalota and Ujpest, the "Vizegespan"; in municipal towns, and within the jurisdiction of Budapest, the magistracy.

(3) As third instance, the Royal Hungarian Minister of Commerce in conformity with the regulations for police proceedings in all matters of nfringement coming within the province of the administrative authorities. 35. Proceedings shall be instituted officially for infringements defined in §12.

6.

Various Regulations.

36. In pursuance of §4 of the Act, a special Order shall designate those undertakings in which raw materials or semi-manufactured goods liable to rapid deterioration are being worked up or manufactured, and in which, in consequence, women may be employed for night work.

37. The regulations of this Order shall also apply to the works and undertakings referred to under (1) and (2) of §10 of the Act.

38. This Order shall come into force on 1st January, 1912.

Industrial Authority of First Instance.

REGISTER

of permits granted by the industrial authorities for shortening the night's rest of women, and respecting their exceptional employment on night work in conformity with §§3 and 5 of the Act XIX. of 1911.

Shortening of
night's

rest.

Employment

of women

for night work by way of exception.