Explanatory note

Section 46 of the Factories Act, 1937, enables the Minister of Labour and National Service to make special regulations where, owing to the conditions and circumstances of employment or the nature of the processes carried on in a particular factory or in factories of a particular class or description, it appears to him that provision requires to be made with regard to matters relating to the welfare of persons employed, including arrangements for preparing or heating and taking meals.

By subsection (6) of that section, the Minister is empowered by regulations to extend the matters with respect to which the section applies, and accordingly these regulations add to those matters arrangements for canteens.