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CAP. 59]

Factories and Industrial Undertakings (Carcinogenic Substances) Regulations

[1986 Ed.

[Subsidiary]

L.N. 270/86.

INT

Citation.

Interpretation.

I

FACTORIES AND INDUSTRIAL UNDERTAKINGS (CARCINOGENIC SUBSTANCES) REGULATIONS

(Cap. 59, section 7)

PART I

PRELIMINARY

[14 November 1986.]

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

2. In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires- "appointed medical practitioner" means a medical practitioner

appointed under regulation 7;

"controlled substance" means any of the following chemical

compounds-

(a) alpha-naphthylamine and its salts (other than alpha- naphthylamine containing, as a by-product of a chemical reaction, more than one per cent of beta-naphthylamine); (b) ortho-tolidine and its salts;

(c) dianisidine and its salts;

(d) dichlorobenzidine and its salts;

(e) auramine; and

() magenta;

"prohibited substance" means any of the following chemical

compounds-

(a) beta-naphthylamine and its salts;

(b) benzidine and its salts;

(c) 4-aminodiphenyl and its salts;

(d) 4-nitrodiphenyl and its salts,

and any substance containing all or any one or more of these chemical compounds (other than as a by-product of a chemical reaction and in a total concentration not exceeding one per cent).

Prohibition of employment in

manufacture of certain substances and

their use.

3.

PART II

PROHIBITED SUBSTANCES

(1) No person shall be employed in any industrial under- taking in connexion with the manufacture of any prohibited sub- stance or in connexion with any process in the course of which any prohibited substance is formed.