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No. S. 404.-The following Draft Regulations, which are proposed to be made when the Industrial Employment of Women, Young Persons and Children Amendment Bill is passed, are published for general information. The bill was published in the Gazette of the 18th October.

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Draft Regulations.

Regulations made by the Governor in Council under section 3 of the Industrial Employment of Women, Young Persons and Children Ordinance, 1922, Ordinance No. 22 of 1922, on the

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1. Regulation 1 of the regulations in the Schedule to the said Ordinance is amended by the addition of the following to the list of dangerous trades :-

Lead processes.

Vermilion manufacture.

2. Regulation 2 of the said regulations is amended by the insertion of the words "young person or" immediately before the word "child”.

3. The following regulation is inserted immediately after Regulation 2 of the said regulations :-

2A. No person shall employ any women in any dangerous trade without the written permission of the Protector of Labour.

4. The following regulation is added immediately after Regulation 10 of the said. regulations :-

10A. No woman or young person shall be employed in any industrial undertaking between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m.

5. The following regulation is added at the end of the said regulations:-

12. In these Regulations-

"Lead material means-

(i) material containing not less than five per cent of lead, including lead ore, bullion ore (lead ore rich in precious metals), red lead, orange lead, and flaked litharge; and

(ii) zinc ore, and material resulting from the treatment

thereof, containing not less than two per cent of lead; except ores which contain lead only in the form of sulphide of lead. retort condensing chamber mean structures as aforesaid which are used in the treatment of lead material.

'Furnace", "melting pot ",

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'Flue means a flue leading from a furnace.

"Lead process

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(i) manipulation, movement or other treatment of lead ma- terial, whether by means of any furnace, melting pot, retort, condensing chamber, flue, or otherwise; and (ii) cleaning or demolition of any furnace, melting pot, retort, condensing chamber, flue, or part thereof or reconstruction thereof with material which has formed part of any such structure.

Clerk of Councils.

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