{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pottery-health-and-welfare-special-regulations-1950/regulation-22",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pottery-health-and-welfare-special-regulations-1950/regulation-22.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1950/65",
  "legislation_title": "The Pottery (Health and Welfare) Special Regulations 1950",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pottery-health-and-welfare-special-regulations-1950",
  "path": "regulation/22",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "22",
  "heading": "Tile Presses",
  "text": "The following requirements shall apply in the case of tile presses used for the making of tiles by the compression of dust:—\n(a) the control handle of every tile press shall be placed as near as practicable to table level and in no case shall it be above the shoulder level of the press operator;\n(b) in any room in use as a tile press shop at the commencement of these Regulations:—\n(i) the number of tile presses shall not exceed one in proportion to every seventy square feet of the floor area of the room;\n(ii) the distance between the centres of the dies of any two presses shall not be less than five feet six inches in any direction; and\n(iii) gangways used for the conveyance of dust shall not be less than six feet in width;\n(c) in any room newly taken into use as a tile press shop after the commencement of these Regulations:—\n(i) the number of tile presses shall not exceed one in proportion to every one hundred and twenty square feet of the floor area of the room;\n(ii) the distance between the centres of the dies of any two presses shall not be less than nine feet in any direction; and\n(iii) gangways used for the conveyance of dust shall not be less than seven feet six inches in width:\nProvided that in shops in which no fettling is done by hand the distance between the centres of the dies of presses and the width of gangways need not exceed six feet six inches and six feet respectively.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/1988/1657",
      "affecting_title": "The Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 1988"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1950/65/regulation/22",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T02:26:38.241988+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."
}