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What it regulates
It reformed accident legislation and included a chapter on prevention and vocational rehabilitation. Its preventive provisions organised technical proposals, inspection, penalties and experimentation. It is presented as historical background, not a current framework of duties.
Who it applies to
Selection of preventive Articles 17–20 and 22, Articles 38–39 and the additional provision. Their scope must be read with the work and industries listed in Article 3 of that Act. This is not a complete reconstruction of insurance, compensation or every implementing regulation.
Key provisions
The Institute of Social Reforms was to propose regulations and measures for preventive devices and safety and hygiene conditions, with the option of seeking health advice. This describes the period’s technical organisation.
Article 17It assigned inspection of the Act, its implementing provisions and workplace safety and hygiene within the covered industries to the Institute. This historical allocation is not projected onto today’s inspectorate.
Article 18It provided for fines without excluding civil or criminal liability. Inspectors identified infringements, while first-instance judges imposed and collected fines. This is a historical allocation of powers.
Articles 19–20It envisaged an experimental workshop within the Institute to preserve preventive-device models, form a museum and test new mechanisms. Its relevance lies in historical prevention research and dissemination.
Article 22It required visible printed copies of the Act and regulations in establishments, workshops or industrial businesses. This is an early provision on access to legal information, not a substitute for modern information and training duties.
Article 39History and versions
Gaceta de Madrid publication: 11/01/1922 · Initial entry into force: Twenty days after official promulgation; no calculated date
BOE-A-1922-249Signed on 10 January 1922 and published on 11 January. The Royal Order of 24 January, published on 1 February, clarified the twenty-day rule and independence from implementing regulations. The 1926 Code incorporated preventive subject matter and repealed earlier rules within its material scope. The 1932 industrial consolidation, expressly commencing in 1933, is a later development. This entry does not exhaust developments in that period.
Original signed on 10 January 1922 and published on 11 January, pages 177–181. Chapter II concerns prevention and vocational rehabilitation.
BOE-A-1922-249Royal Order of 24 January 1922, published on 1 February: twenty days after official promulgation; Article 38’s regulatory deadline does not suspend commencement.
BOE-A-1922-701The Labour Code of 23 August 1926 incorporated prevention, inspection and experimentation rules in Articles 175–177. Article 499 repealed earlier provisions in matters covered by the Code. That is the documented relationship; no date of individually specified total repeal is assigned where the source provides no such list.
BOE-A-1926-8995Later development: Decree of 8 October 1932, a consolidated industrial-accident statute published on 12 October. Its additional article set commencement for 1 April 1933. It is cited as a later accident-law text, not as proof that the whole earlier law remained in force until then.
BOE-A-1932-7845Verified historical publications
- BOE-A-1922-249 · 11/01/1922
Transitional provisions and application notes
The Royal Order clarified commencement twenty days after official promulgation and cited publication on 11 January 1922. That rule is retained without assigning a calculated date. Publication of the Order on 1 February is not the Act’s original publication date.
Royal Order of 24 January 1922Article 38’s six months were the deadline for publishing adapted regulations. The Royal Order of 24 January 1922 rejects the idea that the Act depended on their publication; this was not a six-month commencement delay.
Article 38Supersession is documented by codification of preventive subject matter and Article 499’s subject-matter repeal clause. No named repeal list, exact individual date or current residual force is invented from the absence of such a list.
1926 Labour Code, Article 499
Official BOE legal relationships
Documented relationships are explained in the history, distinguishing reprints, amendments and later instruments. No individual date of total repeal is assigned where the sources do not establish it.
