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What it regulates
It combined accident liability and compensation with preventive measures: study of protective devices, a technical catalogue, safety and hygiene rules and display of the legislation. This entry preserves that historical contribution, focusing on its preventive provisions.
Who it applies to
Historical scope: industries and work covered by Article 3. The selection covers Articles 6–9 and 21 and the preventive connection in Article 5(5). Historical compensation, exclusions and worker categories are not presented as current entitlements or criteria.
Key provisions
It provided for a technical board to study accident-prevention devices. This is a precursor to technical assessment of safeguards, not an institution with current functions.
Article 6The board had to prepare a catalogue of accident-prevention devices and submit it to the Interior Ministry within four months. That deadline concerned initial implementation of the law.
Article 7It entrusted the Government with regulating when machinery required protective devices and which safety and hygiene conditions each industry needed.
Article 8It envisaged an experimental workshop to retain preventive models, test new devices and recommend additions to the catalogue: a historical precedent for technical testing and dissemination.
Article 9It required printed copies of the Act and its implementing regulation to be displayed visibly at covered establishments. This is an early provision on workplace access to legal information.
Article 21History and versions
Gaceta de Madrid publication: 31/01/1900 · Initial entry into force: No exact date asserted; see historical notes
BOE-A-1900-664Enacted on 30 January 1900 and published on 31 January, with official reproductions in February and April. The amended Act of 10 January 1922 required its regulations to be adapted. The 1926 Labour Code gathered preventive rules and repealed earlier provisions in codified matters. The 1932 industrial text is a later development. This entry does not reconstruct the entire legislative succession or assign an individual date of total repeal.
Original published on 31 January 1900, signed on 30 January; pages 363–364. No calculated commencement date is assigned.
BOE-A-1900-664Reproduction of 9 February 1900, pages 493–494; its introduction explains that the 31 January edition had sold out.
BOE-A-1900-887Further reproduction of 29 April 1900, pages 495–496, after earlier editions sold out. It is not a new instrument.
BOE-A-1900-2822Amended Act of 1922: Article 38 requires the 1900 Act’s regulations to be aligned with the new law. This proves reform, not a named total-repeal clause.
BOE-A-1922-249The 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-1900-664 · 31/01/1900
- BOE-A-1900-887 · 09/02/1900
- BOE-A-1900-2822 · 29/04/1900
Transitional provisions and application notes
The increase in compensation for missing protective devices was a historical rule of this Act. Its percentage and scope must not be transferred to current surcharges, benefits or liability.
Article 5.5The publications of 9 February and 29 April 1900 identify themselves as reproductions after earlier copies sold out. They are editions of the same 30 January Act, not two new laws or new enactment dates.
1900 reproductionsThe 1922 reform alone does not establish a date of complete repeal of the 1900 Act. The 1926 Code evidences repeal by codified subject matter; this entry confines its conclusion to that scope and does not assert an individual date of total repeal.
1922 reform and 1926 codification
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.
