Subsidiary Legislation · 2000 Revised Edition
Employment (Female Workmen) Regulations
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reg 1Citation
These Regulations may be cited as the Employment (Female Workmen) Regulations.
reg 2Definition
In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, “night” means the period between 11 o’clock in the evening and 6 o’clock the following morning.
reg 3Employment of pregnant female workmen
No female workman who is pregnant shall be employed to work during the night or part thereof unless she has for this purpose consented in writing and is not certified unfit by a medical officer or a registered medical practitioner.
A female workman who is pregnant shall give written notice of that fact to her employer.
The notice under paragraph (2) shall be accompanied by a certificate from a medical officer or a registered medical practitioner certifying that the female workman is pregnant.
Subregulation 1
No female workman who is pregnant shall be employed to work during the night or part thereof unless she has for this purpose consented in writing and is not certified unfit by a medical officer or a registered medical practitioner.
Subregulation 2
A female workman who is pregnant shall give written notice of that fact to her employer.
Subregulation 3
The notice under paragraph (2) shall be accompanied by a certificate from a medical officer or a registered medical practitioner certifying that the female workman is pregnant.
reg 4Offence
Any person who employs a pregnant female workman in contravention of regulation 3(1) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $5,000 and, in the case of a second or subsequent conviction under that regulation within one year, to a fine not exceeding $10,000.