{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/factories-act-1937/section-58",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/factories-act-1937/section-58.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Edw8and1Geo6/1/67",
  "legislation_title": "Factories Act 1937",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/factories-act-1937",
  "path": "section/58",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "58",
  "heading": "Prohibition of employment of women and young persons in certain processes connected with lead manufacture.",
  "text": "A woman or young person shall not be employed in any factory in any of the following operations :—\n(a) work at a furnace where the reduction or treatment of zinc or lead ores is carried on :\n(b) the manipulation, treatment or reduction of ashes containing lead, the desilverising of lead, or the melting of scrap lead or zinc :\n(c) the manufacture of solder or alloys containing more than ten per cent. of lead :\n(d) the manufacture of any oxide, carbonate, sulphate, chromate, acetate, nitrate, or silicate of lead:\n(e) mixing or pasting in connection with the manufacture or repair of electric accumulators :\n(f) the cleaning of workrooms where any of the processes aforesaid are carried on.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Edw8and1Geo6/1/67/section/58",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:34:00.484732+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}