# Rating and Valuation (Apportionment) Act 1928 (Repealed 19.5.1997), Part II.: Non–Textile Factories and Workshops.

Extent: E+W+S

21“Hat works,” that is to say, any premises in which the manufacture of hats or any process incidental to their manufacture is carried on;
22“Rope works,” that is to say, any premises being a ropery, ropewalk or rope work in which is carried on the laying or twisting or other process of preparing or finishing the lines, twines, cords or ropes and in which machinery moved by steam, water or other mechanical power is not used for drawing or spinning the fibres of flax, hemp, jute or tow and which has no internal communication with any buildings or premises joining or forming part of a textile factory, except such communication as is necessary for the transmission of power;
23“Bakehouses,” that is to say, any places in which are baked bread, biscuits or confectionery from the baking, or selling of which a profit is derived;
24“Lace warehouses,” that is to say, any premises, room or place not included in bleaching and dyeing works as herein–before defined, in which persons are employed upon any manufacturing process or handicraft in relation to lace, subsequent to the making of lace upon a lace machine moved by steam, water or other mechanical power;
25“Shipbuilding yards,” that is to say, any premises in which any ships, boats or vessels used in navigation are made, finished or repaired;
26“Quarries,” that is to say, any place, not being a mine, in which persons work in getting slate, stone, coprolites or other minerals;
27“Pit–banks,” that is to say, any place above ground adjacent to a shaft of a mine, in which place the employment of women is not regulated by the Coal Mines Regulation Act, 1887, or the Metalliferous Mines Regulation Act, 1872, whether such place does or does not form part of the mine within the meaning of those Acts.
28Dry cleaning, carpet beating and bottle washing works.
29Laundries carried on by way of trade or for the purpose of gain, or carried on as ancillary to another business or incidentally to the purposes of any public institution.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5/18-19/44/part/II. (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/rating-and-valuation-apportionment-act-1928-repealed-1951997/part-II.
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