Factories Act, 1955

Power to make special regulations for safety and health.

71.—(1) Where the Minister is satisfied that any manufacture, machinery, plant, equipment, appliance, process or description of manual labour, used in factories, is of such a nature as to cause risk of bodily injury to the persons employed, or any class of those persons, he may, after consultation with the Minister for Health, make such special regulations as appear to him to be reasonably practicable and to meet the necessity of the case.

(2) Special regulations under this section may, among other things,—

(a) prohibit the employment of, or modify or limit the hours of employment of, all persons or any class of persons in connection with any manufacture, machinery, plant, process, or description of manual labour,

(b) prohibit, limit or control the use of any material or process,

(c) modify with respect to any class or description of factory any provisions of Part II , Part III or this Part of this Act, being provisions imposing requirements as to health or safety,

(d) impose duties on owners, employed persons and other persons, as well as on occupiers.

(3) Special regulations under this section may apply to all factories in which the manufacture, machinery, plant, process or description of manual labour is used or to any specified class or description of such factories, and may provide for the exemption of any specified class or description of factory either absolutely or subject to conditions.