Factory and Workshop Act, 1895

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Power to prohibit or restrict employment in dangerous trade.

28.—(1) Section eight of the Act of 1891 shall extend to authorise the making of special rules or requirements prohibiting the employment of, or modifying or limiting the period of employment for, all or any classes of persons in any process or particular description of manual labour which is certified by the Secretary of State in pursuance of that section to be dangerous or injurious to health, or dangerous to life or limb. Provided that any special rules or requirements under this section which relate to the employment or period of employment of adult workers shall be laid for forty days before both Houses of Parliament before coming into operation.

(2) Sections eight to twelve of [¹] the Act of 1891 are hereby declared to extend to workshops conducted on the system of not employing any child, young person, or woman therein.

[¹ See footnote 3, p. 759.]