Factories Act, 1934 — section 33Q

33Q. Additional power to make health and safety rules relating to shelters during rest..

(1)The Provincial Government may make rules requiring that in any specified factory wherein more than one hundred and fifty workers are ordinarily employed, an adequate shelter shall be provided for the use of workers during periods of rest, and such rules may prescribe the standards of such shelters.

(2)rooms for children.___The Provincial Government may also make rules

(a)requiring that in any specified factory, wherein more than fifty women workers are ordinarily employed, a suitable room shall be reserved for the use of children under the age of six years belonging to such women, and

(b)prescribing the standards for such rooms and the nature of the supervision to be exercised over the children therein.

(3)certificates of stability.___The Provincial Government may also make rules, for any class of factories and for the whole or any part of the Province, requiring that work on a manufacturing process carried on with the aid of power shall not be begun in any building or part of a building erected or taken into use as a factory after the commencement of this Act, until a certificate of stability in the prescribed form, signed by a person possessing the prescribed qualifications, has been sent to the Inspector.

(4)hazardous operations.___Where the Provincial Government is satisfied that any operation in a factory exposes any persons employed upon it to a serious risk of bodily injury, poisoning or disease, it may make rules applicable to any factory or class of factories in which the operation is carried on

(a)specifying the operation and declaring it to be hazardous,

(b)prohibiting or restricting the employment of women, adolescents or children upon the operation,

(c)providing for the medical examination of persons employed or seeking to be employed upon the operation and prohibiting the employment of persons not certified as fit for such employment, and

(d)providing for the protection of all persons employed upon the operation or in the vicinity of the places where it is carried on.] 1 [(5) The Provincial Government may also make rules requiring the occupiers or managers of factories to maintain stores of first-aid appliances and provide for their proper custody and use.] CHAPTER IV RESTRICTIONS ON WORKING HOURS OF ADULTS 34. Weekly hours. No adult worker shall be allowed to work in a factory for more than 2[forty eight] hours in any week, or, where the factory is a seasonal one, for more than 2[fifty] hours in any week : Provided that an adult worker in a 3[*] factory engaged in work which for technical reasons must be continuous throughout the day may work for fifty-six hours in any week.