{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/factories-act-1961/section-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/factories-act-1961/section-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Eliz2/9-10/34",
  "legislation_title": "Factories Act 1961",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/factories-act-1961",
  "path": "section/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Ventilation.",
  "text": "(1) Effective and suitable provision shall be made for securing and maintaining by the circulation of fresh air in each workroom the adequate ventilation of the room . . . .\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 4 repealed (1.1.1993 with respect to certain premises and 1.1.1996 with respect to certain further premises) by S.I. 1992/3004, regs. 1(2)(3), 2, 3, 27(1), Sch. 2 Pt.I (with reg. 27(2))."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words repealed by S.I. 1988/1657, reg. 19(1), Sch. 8 Pt. II"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Ss. 1(5), 2(4), 3(3), 4(2), 5(2), 7(2), 9, 10, 14(3)(4)(6), 17(3)–(5), 18(5)(6), 25(4), 53–55, 58(2)–(4), 59(2)(3), 62, 66, 70, 71, 72(2), 73(2), 76, 81, 83, 121(7), 122(6), 124(2)(3), 129(1), 134, 137(5), 142, 145, 149, 150, 153(3), 159, 164(3), 174(2), 177, 179, 180(5)(7)(8)(10), 181(2), 182(5)(6), Schs. 3, 4 repealed by S.I. 1974/1941, reg. 7, Sch. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/9-10/34/section/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:10:19.831204+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."
}