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Section 58 Prohibition of employment of women and young persons in certain processes connected with lead manufacture.

Original text. Later amendments are not shown.

A woman or young person shall not be employed in any factory in any of the following operations :—

(a)

work at a furnace where the reduction or treatment of zinc or lead ores is carried on :

(b)

the manipulation, treatment or reduction of ashes containing lead, the desilverising of lead, or the melting of scrap lead or zinc :

(c)

the manufacture of solder or alloys containing more than ten per cent. of lead :

(d)

the manufacture of any oxide, carbonate, sulphate, chromate, acetate, nitrate, or silicate of lead:

(e)

mixing or pasting in connection with the manufacture or repair of electric accumulators :

(f)

the cleaning of workrooms where any of the processes aforesaid are carried on.