Section 29. Prohibition of employment of women and children near , cotton-openers

29. Prohibition of employment of women and children near , cotton-openers. 30. Notice of certain accidents. - . .. . 31. Appeals. 32. Power of Local Government to make rules to supplement this Chapter. ; 33. Additional power to make health and safety r ~ i ~ e s - relating to- shelters during rest,- - rooms for children,- - certificates of stability,- - hazardous operations. 2 : I I I ! ACT' No. `XXV` OF 1934. ! \r [PASSED BY TEE INDIAN LEGISLATURE.] ( ~ e c k i v e d the assent of the Governor General on the 20th August, 1934.) An Act t o consolidnts and amend the law regdating labour in factorie:. W HEREAS it is expedient to consolidate and apend the law regulating labour in factories; It ie hereby enacted as follows : - 29. No woman. or chitd shall be employed in any part of factory for pressing cottoll in which o, cotton-opeoer is at work :i Prohibition of `employlnent` of W O ~ I I C n.~id ehildrcn ncar cotwn-upenors' Provided that, if the feed-end of a cotton-opener is in a room separated horn the delivery end by a partition extending to the roof, or to such height i s the Inspector map in any part,icular case specify in writing, women and children may be employed on the side of the partition where the feed-end is situated. NO&S `o` I certain acci- , `[30. ]`[Where ][in ][any factory an accident occurs which causes- ] dents. death, or which causes any bodily injury whereby any person. injured is prevented from resuming his work in the factory during the-forty-eight hours after-the accident occurred, or. which is of any nature which may be prescribed in this behalf,, the manager of the factory shall send notice thereof to such authorities, and in such form and within such time, ns may be prescribed. 31. (1) The manager of a factory on whom an order in writing by an Inspector has been served under the provisiona of this Chapter, or the occupier of the factory, may, within thirty days of the service of the order, appeal against it to the Local Government, or to such authority as the Local Government may appoinl in this behalf; and the Local Governnlent or appointed authority may, subject to rules mads in this behalf by the Local Government, confirm, modify or reverse the order. ~ p p c a ~ s . (2) The appellate authority may, and if so required in tho petition or appeal shall, hear the appeal with the a'd of assessors, one `of` whom shall be nppojnted by the appellate authority and the other by such body representing the industry concerncd as the Local Government may prescribe in this behalf : Provided? . / . I .... .. .-. . .. .-. . .-. . . ' . P . . . . ' . I...... . . , .... ;... .. . , .. h 1 " ) - ax `or' 1800.` * OF `1934.1` Factories. . Provided that if no assessor is appointed by such body, or if the assessor so appointed fails to attend at the trime and place fixed for hearing the appeal, the appellate authority may, unless satisfied that thc failure to attend is due to sufficient cause, proceed to hear the appeal without the aid of such assessor, or, if it thinks fit, without the aid of any assessor. (3) In the case of un appeal against an order under section 16 tlle appellate authorit? shall, and in any other case except an appeal against an order under sub-section `(2j` of section 26 or sub-section (2) of section 28 the appellate authority may, suspend the order appealed against pending the decision of the appeal, subject llowever to sucll conditions as to partial coinplinnce or the adoption of telnporary measures as it ]nay cllooso to impose in any case.