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CAP. 59]

Factories and Industrial Undertakings (Abrasive Wheels) Regulations

[1975 Ed.

[Subsidiary]

L.N. 103/75.

FACTORIES AND INDUSTRIAL UNDERTAKINGS (ABRASIVE WHEELS) REGULATIONS

(Cap. 59, section 7)

[1st January, 1976.]

Citation.

Interpretation.

PART I

PRELIMINARY

1. These regulations may be cited as the Factories and Industrial Undertakings (Abrasive Wheels) Regulations.

2. In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires-

"abrasive wheel" means-

(a) a wheel, cylinder, disc or cone which consists wholly or partly of abrasive particles held together by mineral, metallic or organic bonds whether natural or artificial;

(b) a

(i) mounted wheel or point; or

(ii) wheel or disc, having separate segments of abrasive material;

(c) a wheel or disc-

(d)

(i) made of metal, wood or rubber; and

(ii) having any surface consisting wholly or partly of abrasive material; and

a wheel, disc or saw to any surface of which, in each case, is attached a rim or segments consisting of diamond abrasive particles,

and which is, or is intended to be, power driven and which is for use in any grinding or cutting operation;

"employee" means a person who in an industrial undertaking is employed in using any abrasive wheel in any grinding or cutting operation;

"mounted wheel or point" means a wheel or point consisting in either case of abrasive particles held together by mineral, metallic or organic bonds whether natural or artificial and securely and permanently mounted on the end of a mandrel or quill;

"overhang", in relation to a mounted wheel or point, means that part of the mandrel or quill which is exposed between the collet in which the mandrel or quill is held and the part of the abrasive material nearest to that collet.

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