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Paragraph 1

Original text. Later amendments are not shown.

Every employer of employees who work in any factory or part thereof in which is carried on the manufacture of aerated water and processes incidental thereto shall ensure that—

(a)

all machines for filling bottles or syphons shall be so constructed, placed or fenced, as to prevent as far as possible a fragment of a bursting bottle or syphon from striking any person employed in the works; and

(b)

the fittings of a filled syphon shall not be polished unless the syphon is held in a box or case so constructed as to prevent as far as possible the escape of fragments of a bursting syphon. Provided that this sub–paragraph shall not apply in the case of syphons filled at a pressure of less than 9 bars.