Scaffoldings.—The Burgh Police (Scotland) Act of 1903 (3 Edw. VII., ch. 33) contains among its general clauses the following:—
Sec. 32.—The dean of guild court shall on the application of the burgh surveyor have power to prohibit and stop the erection, use, or employment, and to order the alteration or removal of any crane, scaffolding, staging, or shoring in or connected with the construction and erection, or the demolition, alteration, repair, or securing of any new or existing building, or in or connected with any excavation for the purpose of any work authorised by the dean of guild court, where such crane, scaffolding, staging or shoring is, or is likely to be, in the judgment of the burgh surveyor, a source of danger.
Sec. 103.—‘Dean of guild court’ shall, in this Act, as regards burghs where there is no dean of guild court, mean the town council.
The above Act applies to Scotland only, and the section mentioned first is carried out only so far as it affects the safety of the public at large.
FACTORY AND WORKSHOP ACT, 1901
Section 105 of the above Act, so far as it relates to buildings, reads as follows:—
BUILDINGS
105.—(1). The provisions of this Act with respect to—
(1) power to make orders as to dangerous machines (section 17);
(2) accidents (sections 19-22);