# Factories Act 1937, Section 58: Prohibition of employment of women and young persons in certain processes connected with lead manufacture.


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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Edw8and1Geo6/1/67/section/58 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/factories-act-1937/section-58
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