Section 27
Prohibition of employment of women and children near cotton-openers.
About this Act
An Act to consolidate and amend the law regulating labour in factories.
No woman or child
shall be employed in any part of a factory for pressing cotton in which a cotton opener is at work:
Provided that if the feed-end of a cotton-opener is in a room separated from the delivery end by a partition extending to the roof or to such height as the Inspector may in any particular case specify in writing, women and children may be employed on the side of the partition where the feed-end is situated.
Provided that if the feed-end of a cotton-opener is in a room separated from the delivery end by a partition extending to the roof or to such height as the Inspector may in any particular case specify in writing, women and children may be employed on the side of the partition where the feed-end is situated.