68. Power to make regulations
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Where the Minister is satisfied that any manufacture, machinery, plant, equipment, appliance, process or description of manual labour used in factories is of such a nature as to cause risk of bodily injury to the persons employed or any class of those persons, he may make such regulations as appear to him to be reasonably practicable and to meet the necessity of the case.
machinery
“machinery” includes all oil engines, gas engines, steam engines, and any other machines in which mechanical movement, either linear or rotated or both, takes place, steam boilers, gas cylinders, air receivers, steam receivers, steam containers, cast-iron underfired vulcanisers, refrigerating plant pressure receivers, all appliances for transmission of power by ropes, belts, chains, driving straps or bands or gearing, electrical generators and electrical motors; but does not include any machinery used for the propulsion of vehicles or office machines;
The regulations so made may, among other things —
prohibit the employment of, or modify or limit the hours of employment of, all persons or any class of persons in connection with any manufacture, machinery, plant, process or description of manual labour;
prohibit, limit or control the use of any material or process;
modify or extend with respect to any class or description of factories any provisions of Part IV, V, VI or this Part, being provisions imposing requirements as to health or safety; and special regulations so made may apply to all factories in which the manufacture, machinery, plant, equipment, appliance, process or description of manual labour is used or to any specified class or description of such factories and may provide for the exemption of any special class or description of factories either absolutely or subject to conditions;
prescribe maximum weights which may be lifted, carried or moved by persons employed in factories; and any such regulations may prescribe different weights in different circumstances and may relate either to persons generally or to any class of persons or to persons employed in any class or description of factories or in any process; and
prescribe the qualifications of persons who are employed at any machine or plant, or the training in work at the machine or plant to be received by such persons.
The regulations so made may impose duties on owners, employed persons and other persons as well as on occupiers.
All regulations made under this section shall be published in the Gazette and shall be presented to Parliament as soon as possible after publication.[61