FACTORIES ACT

Chapter IV - Safety

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Section 27 : Prohibition if employment of women and children near cotton openers

No woman or child shall be employed in any part a factory for pressing cotton in which a cotton-opener is at work:
Prohibition that it 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.