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HOSIERY MANUFACTURE (WAGES) ACT 1874

HOSIERY MANUFACTURE (WAGES) ACT 1874 - LONG TITLE

An Act to provide for the payment of Wages without Stoppages in
the Hosiery Manufacture.{1}
[30th July 1874]
Preamble rep. by SLR 1893 (No.2)

HOSIERY MANUFACTURE (WAGES) ACT 1874 - SECT 1
Wages to be paid without any stoppages whatever.

1. In all contracts for wages the full and entire amount of all
wages the earnings of labour in the hosiery manufacture shall be
actually and positively made payable in net, in the current coin of
the realm, and not otherwise, without any deduction or stoppage of
any description whatever, save and except for bad and disputed
workmanship.

HOSIERY MANUFACTURE (WAGES) ACT 1874 - SECT 2
Contracts to stop wages and for frame rents illegal.

2. All contracts to stop wages, and all contracts for frame rents
and charges, between employer and artificers, shall be and are
hereby declared to be illegal, null, and void.

HOSIERY MANUFACTURE (WAGES) ACT 1874 - SECT 3
Penalty for bargaining to deduct and for deducting from wages.

3. If any employer shall bargain to deduct, or shall deduct,
directly or indirectly, from the wages of any artificer in his
employ any part of such wages for frame rent and standing or other
charges, or shall refuse or neglect to pay the same or any part
thereof in the current coin of the realm, he shall forfeit a sum
of five pounds for every offence, to be recovered by the said
artificer... suing for the same in the county court in the district
where the offence is committed, with full costs of suit.

HOSIERY MANUFACTURE (WAGES) ACT 1874 - SECT 4
Penalty for using frame otherwise than for the purpose for which
same lent.

4. If any frame or machine which shall have been entrusted to any
artificer or other person by his employer for the purpose of being
used in the hosiery manufacture for such employer, or in any
process incident to such manufacture, shall, whilst the same shall
be so entrusted, be worked, used, or employed without the consent
in writing of such employer or other person so entrusting such
frame or machine, in the manufacture of any goods or articles
whatever for any other person than the person by whom such frame
or machine shall have been so entrusted, then and in every such
case the artificer or other person to whom the same shall have
been so entrusted shall forfeit and pay the sum of [50p] for every
day on any part of which any such frame or machine shall have
been so worked, used, or employed, to be recoverable by and for
the benefit of the person who shall have so entrusted the same, in
the county court for the district where the offence shall have been
committed, with full costs of suit.

HOSIERY MANUFACTURE (WAGES) ACT 1874 - SECT 5
No action in respect of illegal contracts.

5. No action, suit, or set off between employer and artificer shall
be allowed for any deduction or stoppage of wages, nor for any
contract hereby declared illegal.

HOSIERY MANUFACTURE (WAGES) ACT 1874 - SECT 6
Employer may recover debt due from artificer.

6. Nothing in this Act contained shall extend to prevent the
recovery in the ordinary course of law, by suit brought or
commenced for the purpose, of any debt due from the artificer to
the employer.

HOSIERY MANUFACTURE (WAGES) ACT 1874 - SECT 7
Definition of terms.

7. Within the meaning and for the purposes of this Act, all
workmen, labourers, and other persons in any manner engaged in the
performance of any employment or operation, of what nature soever,
in or about the hosiery manufacture, shall be and be deemed
"artificers"; and, within the meaning and for the purposes aforesaid,
all masters, foremen, managers, clerks, contractors, sub-contractors,
middlemen, and other persons engaged in the hiring, employment, or
superintendence of the labour of any such artificers shall be and
be deemed to be "employers"; and, within the meaning and for the
purposes of this Act, any money or other thing had or contracted
to be paid, delivered, or given as a recompense, reward, or
remuneration for any labour done or to be done, whether within a
certain time or to a certain amount, or for a time or for an
amount uncertain, shall be deemed and taken to be the wages of
such labour; and, within the meaning and for the purposes aforesaid,
any agreement, understanding, device, contrivance, collusion, or
arrangement whatsoever on the subject of wages, whether written or
oral, whether direct or indirect, to which the employer and
artificers are parties, or are assenting, or by which they are
mutually bound to each other, or whereby either of them shall have
endeavoured to impose an obligation on the other of them, shall be
and be deemed a "contract."

S.8 rep. by SLR 1893 (No.2)

HOSIERY MANUFACTURE (WAGES) ACT 1874 - SECT 9
Short title.

9. This Act may be cited for all purposes as "The Hosiery
Manufacture (Wages) Act, 1874."