Factories Act, 1955

Prohibition of employment of women and young persons in certain processes connected with lead manufacture.

69.—A woman or young person shall not be employed in any factory in any of the following operations:—

(a) work at a furnace where the reduction or treatment of zinc or lead ores is carried on;

(b) the manipulation, treatment or reduction of ashes containing lead, the desilverising of lead, or the melting of scrap lead or zinc;

(c) the manufacture of solder or alloys containing more than ten per cent. of lead;

(d) the manufacture of any oxide, carbonate, sulphate, chromate, acetate, nitrate or silicate of lead;

(e) mixing or pasting in connection with the manufacture or repair of electric accumulators;

(f) the cleaning of workrooms where any of the processes aforesaid are carried on.