Factories : hair and wool regulations 1966.

  • United Kingdom
Date:
1966
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Credit: Factories : hair and wool regulations 1966. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    material which has been disinfected at the Government Wool Disinfecting Station)— (i) if the material is to be spun, before that material undergoes the process of drawing, or, if there is no such process, of spinning; (ii) 1f the material is not to be spun, before the completion of such one or more of the following processes as are carried out in the case of that material, namely, opening, garnetting, willeying, washing, card- ing, combing, or other process similar to any of the foregoing processes being a similar process which, in the case of material which is spun, is carried out before the process of spinning. (3) References in these Regulations to any enactment shall be construed as references to that enactment as amended by or under any other enactment. Application of Regulations 3.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2) of this Regulation, these Regulations shall apply— (a) to all factories as defined in section 175 of the principal Act in which any scheduled material is handled or processed or any certificated goat hair is processed; and (b) (except Regulations 14 and 15) to all warehouses to which the provisions of Part IV of the principal Act with respect to special regulations for safety and health are applied by section 125 of that Act, being warehouses which are used wholly or mainly for the storage of scheduled material. (2) Nothing in these Regulations shall apply as respects goods which by virtue of the provisions of Article 7 of the Order of 1961 are for the time being exempt from any of the provisions of that Order. (3) The provisions of these Regulations shall be in addition to and not in substitution for or in diminution of other requirements imposed by or under the principal Act. Obligations under Regulations 4.—(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2) of this Regulation, it shall be the duty of the occupier of every factory and warehouse to which these Regulations apply to comply with the requirements of these Regulations. (2) In the case of any warehouse to which these Regulations apply— (a) the duty to comply with the requirements of Regulations 16, 17, 19, 20 and 29 shall be upon each employer as respects the persons employed by him; and (b) the duty to comply with Regulations 18 and 28 shall be upon the person having the general management and control of the warehouse or, where some other person has the exclusive right to occupation of the warehouse or any part thereof, shall be as respects that warehouse or that part (as the case may be) upon that other person. Exemption Certificates 5. The Chief Inspector may (subject to such conditions as may be specified therein) by certificate in writing (which he may at his discretion revoke at any time) exempt from all or any of the requirements of these Regulations— (a) any factory or warehouse or part of any factory or warehouse; or 3
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