Chimney Sweepers Act 1875

Chimney Sweepers Act 1875[a]
Act of Parliament
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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long titleAn Act for further amending the Law relating to Chimney Sweepers.
Citation38 & 39 Vict. c. 70
Territorial extent 
[b]
Dates
Royal assent11 August 1875
Commencement31 December 1875[c]
Repealed
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Repealed by
Relates to
Status: Repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted

The Chimney Sweepers Act 1875 (38 & 39 Vict. c. 70) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that superseded the Chimney Sweepers and Chimneys Regulation Act 1840 (3 & 4 Vict. c. 85) passed to try to stop child labour. The bills, proposed by Lord Shaftesbury, were triggered by the death of eleven-year-old George Brewster, whose master had caused him to climb and clean the chimney at Fulbourn Hospital.[1]

The 1840 act prohibited any person under 21 being compelled or knowingly allowed to ascend or descend a chimney or flue for sweeping, cleaning or coring.[2] This Act ensured all chimney-sweeps would be registered with the police, and that official supervision of their work would take place.[3] The provisions of all previous acts would now take place.[4]

Subsequent developments

The whole act was repealed for England and Wales by section 1(1) of the Chimney Sweepers Acts (Repeal) Act 1938 (1 & 2 Geo. 6. c. 58), which came into force on 29 July 1938.[5]

The whole act was repealed for Northern Ireland by section 1 of, and the part IX of the schedule to, the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1971, which came into force on 27 July 1971.[6]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Section 1.
  2. ↑ Section 3.
  3. ↑ Section 2.

References

  1. ↑ Issimdar, Mariam (22 January 2025). "Plaque for chimney sweep, 11, whose death changed law". BBC News.
  2. ↑ "History of the English Chimney Sweep". Archived from the original on 17 June 2012. Retrieved 23 June 2012.
  3. ↑ "Children and Chimneys". UK Parliament. Retrieved 6 December 2016.
  4. ↑ Strange 1982, p. 80
  5. ↑ "Chimney Sweepers Acts (Repeal) Act 1938", legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives, Geo6/1-2 c. 58
  6. ↑ "Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1971", legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives, 1971 c. 52

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