FACTORIES ORDINANCE
Arrangement of Sections
1. Short title.
PART I
Registration of Factories and Approval of Factory Buildings
2. Registration of factories and approval of buildings.
3. Power to make regulations.
4. Notice of intention to commence the occupation of or the use of any premises as a factory and notice to be furnished in respect of a factory established before the date notified by the Ministry under section 2.
5. Notice of suspension and resumption of work in a factory.
5A. Local authorities not to issue licence in respect of factories registered under this Ordinance.
PART II
Health (General Provisions)
6. Cleanliness.
7. Overcrowding.
8. Regulations increasing amount of cubic space allowance for each person.
9. Calculation of amount of cubic space in rooms.
10. Notice of number of persons employed to be posted in each work.
11. Temperature.
12. Ventilation.
13. Lighting.
14. Drainage of floors.
15. Sanitary conveniences.
16. Power to require medical supervision.
PART III
Safety (General Provisions)
17. Prime movers.
18. Transmission machinery.
19. Other machinery.
20. Provisions as to unfenced machinery.
21. Construction and maintenance of fencing.
22. Construction and sale of new machinery.
23. Vessels containing dangerous substances.
24. Self-acting.
25. Cleaning of machinery by women and young persons.
26. Training and supervision of young person’s working at dangerous machines.
27. Hoists and lifts.
28. Chains, ropes and lifting tackle.
29. Cranes and other lifting machines.
30. Construction and maintenance of floors, passages and stairs.
31. Safe means of access and safe place of employment.
32. Precautions in places where dangerous fumes are liable to be present or where deficiency of oxygen is liable to occur.
33. Precautions with respect to explosive or inflammable dust, gas, vapour or substance.
34. Steam boilers.
35. Steam receivers and steam containers.
36. Air receivers.
36A. Gas receivers.
37. Exceptions as to steam boiler steam receivers and containers air and gas receivers.
38. Precautions as respects water-sealed gasholders.
38A. Regulations.
39. Means of escape in case of fire.
40. Regulations as to means of escape in case of fire.
41. Safety provisions case of fire.
42. Instruction as to use of means of escape in case of fire.
42A. Regulations requiring the installation of firefighting appliances.
43. Power of Commissioner to require special safety arrangements for the prevention of accidents.
44. Power to make orders as to dangerous conditions and practices.
44A. Power to make orders as to safety of factory premises.
45. The use of other machinery.
PART IV
Welfare (General Provisions)
46. Supply of drinking water.
47. Regulations as to washing facilities.
48. Accommodation for clothing.
49. Facilities for resting for female workers.
50. First-aid.
PART V
Health, Safety and Welfare (Special Provisions and Regulations)
51. Removal of dust or fumes.
51A. Precautions where asphyxiate or irritant gas or vapour is used or is liable to be present.
52. Meals in certain dangerous trades.
53. Protection of eyes.
53A. Protection from radiation and vibration.
54. Shuttle threading by mouth suction.
55. Prohibition of use of white phosphorus in manufacture of matches.
56. Underground rooms.
57. Laundries.
58. Lifting excess weights.
58A. Prevention of noise.
58B. Precautions to be taken in factories where electricity is generated.
Special Regulations for Safety and Health
59. Power to make special regulations for safety and health.
Supplementary Provisions
60. Power to photograph take samples.
PART VI
Notification and Investigation of Accounts and Industrial Diseases
61. Notification of accidents.
62. Power to extend to dangerous occurrences provisions as to notice of accidents.
63. Notification of industrial diseases.
64. Investigation into case of death by accident or industrial disease.
65. Power to direct formal investigation of accidents and cases of disease.
66. Duty of authorised factory doctor to investigate a report in certain cases.
66A. Insurer to furnish information to the Chief Factory Inspecting Engineer.
PART VII
Employment of Workers
67. General conditions as to hours of employment of women and young persons.
67A. Employment of women at night in a factory or an industrial undertaking.
68. Overtime employment of women and young person’s over sixteen.
69. Definition of “overtime employment”.
70. Register of overtime.
71. Restriction of employment inside and outside factory on same day.
72. Prohibition of use of rooms during intervals.
73. Weekly and annual holidays.
74. Exception as to workers holding positions of management.
75. Power to suspend certain provisions of Part VII in emergency.
76. Provision for protection of women and young person’s employed under exceptions.
77. Repealed.
78. Power of Factory Inspecting Engineer to require certificate of fitness for work.
78A. Definition of worker.
PART VIII
Special Applications and Extensions Premises in Respect of Which Owner is Liable
79. Parts of buildings let off as separate factories.
79A. Tenement factories.
Electrical Stations
80. Application of Ordinance to electrical stations.
Institutions
81. Institution.
Docks, Wharves, Quays, Warehouses and Ships
82. Docks.
83. Ships.
Building and Other Construction Works
84. Building and other construction works.
85. Repealed.
Lead Processes Carried on in Places Other than Factories
86. Employment of women and young persons in places other than factories in processes connected with lead manufacture or involving the use of lead Compounds.
PART IX
Home Work
87. Lists of outworkers to be kept in certain trades.
88. Employment of persons in unwholesome premises.
PART X
Miscellaneous
89. Notice of use of mechanical power.
90. Posting of abstract of Ordinance and notices.
91. Provisions as to special regulations.
92. General registers.
93. Preservation of registers and records.
94. Periodical return of persons employed.
95. Duties of persons employed.
96. Prohibition of deductions from wages.
97. Weights, measures and weighing and measuring instruments used in ascertaining wages.
PART XI
Administration
98. Administration of the Ordinance.
99. Industrial Safety and Health Advisory Committee.
100. Appointment of Chief Factory Inspecting Engineer and other officers.
101. Powers of Chief Factory Inspecting Engineer and other officers.
102. Powers of Factory Inspecting Engineer to be exercised by other officer in certain cases.
103. Certificate of person appointed under section 100.
104. Appointment and duties of authorised factory doctor.
105. Regulations.
PART XII
Repealed
106. Repealed.
107. Repealed.
PART XIII
Supplementary Offences, Penalties and Legal Proceedings
108. Liability of occupier, owner, employed person of a factory.
109. Fines for offences for which no express penalty is provided.
110. Power of court to order cause of contravention to be remedied.
111. Fines in case of death or injury.
112. Fine for offence by parent.
113. Forgery of certificates, false entries, and false declarations.
114. Penalty on persons actually committing offence for which occupier is liable.
115. Power of occupier or owner to exempt himself from liability on conviction of the actual offender.
116. Proceedings against persons other than occupiers or owners.
117. Owner of machine liable in certain cases instead of occupier.
118. Prosecution of offences and recovery and application of fines.
119. Special provisions as to evidence.
120. Service and sending of documents.
121. Repealed.
122. Power of District Court to modify agreements.
123. Power of District Court to apportion expenses.
PART XIV
Application of Ordinance
124. General application of Ordinance.
125. Application to factories belonging to the State.
PART XV
Interpretation and General Interpretation
126. Interpretation of expression factory.
127. General interpretation.
128. Application of Ordinance to young person’s employed in factories in certain occupations.
General
129. Inspection of certain premises.
130. Expenses of Commissioner.
131. Mines and Machinery Protection Ordinance, 1896, to cease to apply to factories.
45 of 1942,
22 of 1946,
12 of 1976,
54 of 1961,
32 of 1984,
18 of 1998,
33 of 2000,
19 of 2002,
4 of 2021.
AN ORDINANCE to make provision for the safety and welfare of workers in Factories.
[Date of Commencement: 1st January, 1950]
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