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• Factories 
• PART I Preliminary
  • 1 Citation
  • 2 Definitions
• PART II General application
  • 3 General Application
  • 4 Application to electrical stations
  • 5 Public emergency
  • 6 Extension of definition “factory”
• PART III Safety
  • 7 Fencing of machinery
  • 8 Transmission machinery
  • 9 Part of stock bar projecting beyond head stock of lathe to be securely-fenced
  • 10 Standards for construction of machinery
  • 11 Fencing of places containing dangerous substances
  • 12 Self-acting machines
  • 13 Cleaning machines
  • 14 Training and Supervision of persons
  • 15 Chains, ropes and lifting tackle
  • 16 Cranes and lifting machines
  • 17 Fencing of doorways used for hoisting or lowering goods
  • 18 Hoists and lifts generally
  • 19 Passenger-carrying hoist or lift constructed after 1st March, 1984
  • 20 Application of sections 18 and 19
  • 21 Exemption from sections 17 to 19
  • 22 Dangerous ways, works or plant
  • 23 Floors, passages and stairs
  • 24 Safe means of access and safe means of employment
  • 25 Dangerous fumes and lack of oxygen
  • 26 Storage of gas etc.
  • 27 Precautions with respect to explosive or inflammable dust, gas, vapour or substance
  • 28 Steam boilers - restrictions on entry
  • 29 Steam boilers - attachments and construction
  • 30 Steam boilers maintenance, examination and use
  • 31 Steam receivers and steam containers
  • 32 Air receivers
  • 33 Certification by fire authority of fire escape
  • 34 Factories to which section 33 applies
  • 35 Maintenance and inspection
  • 36 Appeal against refusal of certificate
  • 37 Certificate in force where factory is not in conformity with regulations
  • 38 Safety provisions in case of fire
  • 39 Testing or examining fire warnings
  • 40 Instructions as to use of means of escape in case of fire
  • 41 Provision of fire fighting apparatus
  • 42 Power of court to make orders as to dangerous conditions
  • 43 Appeals
• PART IV Environmental
  • 44 Cleanliness
  • 45 Disposal of wastes and effluents
  • 46 Sanitary conveniences
  • 47 Overcrowding
  • 48 Lighting
  • 49 Temperature
  • 50 Ventilation
  • 51 Drainage of floors
  • 52 Noise
• PART V Welfare
  • 53 Supply of drinking water
  • 54 Washing facilities
  • 55 Lunch rooms
  • 56 Accommodation for clothing
  • 57 Rest rooms
  • 58 Sitting facilities
  • 59 First-aid
• PART VI Working Environment
  • 60 Removal of gas, dust or fumes
  • 61 Meals in certain dangerous trades
  • 62 Special protective equipment
  • 63 Underground rooms
  • 64 Laundries
  • 65 Lifting excessive weights
  • 66 Prohibition of employment of women and young persons in certain processes connected with lead manufacture
  • 67 Provisions as to employment of persons in process of involving lead compounds
• PART VII Supplementary provisions
  • 68 Importation and sale of materials and articles made with prohibited materials
  • 69 Power to take samples
• PART VIII Medical examination of young persons
  • 70 Certificate of fitness for employment of young persons
  • 71 School medical records
  • 72 Procedure where young person’s fitness not clearly determined
  • 73 Occupier of factory to file medical certificates
  • 74 Procedure where employment of young person is injurious to health
• PART IX Special Applications and Extensions of Act
  • 75 Parts of buildings let off as separate factories - fire provisions
  • 76 Part of buildings let off as separate factories - provisions other than fire provisions
  • 77 Premises, other than factories in which steam boilers are used
  • 78 Premises, other than factories, in which air receivers are used
  • 79 Written notice in respect of steam boilers and air receivers taken into use on. premises not part of factory
  • 80 Extension of sections 77 to 79
  • 81 Institutions
  • 82 Building operations and works of engineering construction
  • 83 Docks, wharves, quays and warehouses
  • 84 Ships
  • 85 Employment in lead processes in places other than factories
• PART X Notices, Returns, Records and Duties of persons employed
  • 86 Notice of occupation of factory and use of mechanical power
  • 87 Register of factories
  • 88 Posting of abstracts and notices
  • 89 Provisions as to special regulations
  • 90 General registers
  • 91 Preservation of registers and records
  • 92 Periodical return of persons employed
  • 93 Duties of employees
• PART XI Administration
  • 94 Administration generally
  • 95 Powers of inspectors
  • 96 Powers of entry of officers of Fire Service
  • 97 Designation of factory doctor
  • 98 Medical officer of health to act where no factory doctor is appointed
  • 99 Factory doctors to report to Minister each year
  • 100 Fees for factory doctors
  • 101 Information respecting factories to be confidential
• PART XII Safety Organisation
  • 102 Safety consultations
• PART XIII Regulations and Rules
  • 103 Special regulations relating to safety
  • 104 Special regulations relating to health
  • 105 Special regulations relating to welfare
  • 106 General regulations
• PART XIV Offences, Penalties and Legal Proceedings
  • 107 Contravention by occupiers and employees and companies
  • 108 Means of entry and obstruction
  • 109 General penalty
  • 110 Power of court to order contravention to be remedied
  • 111 Forgery of certificates, false entries and false declarations
  • 112 Penalty on persons actually committing offence for which occupier is liable
  • 113 Power of occupier or owner to exempt himself from liability on conviction of actual offender
  • 114 Proceedings against persons other than occupiers or owners
  • 115 Owner of machine liable in certain cases instead of occupier
  • 116 Provisions as to proceedings in prosecutions under this Act
  • 117 Limitation of time within which proceedings may be instituted
  • 118 Evidence as to employment in factory
  • 119 Prosecutions
  • 120 Power of Judge to apportion expenses
  • 121 Power of court to modify agreements
• PART XV General
  • 122 Advisers
  • 123 No charge for facilities and conveniences
  • 124 No exemption from civil or criminal liability
  • 125 Expenses