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FACTORIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1965 - SECT 2

Overcrowding.

2.(1) A factory shall not, while work is carried on, be so overcrowded as to
cause risk of injury to the health of the persons employed in it.

(2) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1) but subject to
subsection (3), the number of persons employed at a time in any workroom shall
not be such that the amount of cubic space allowed for each is less than four
hundred cubic feet.

(3) If the chief inspector is satisfied that, owing to the special conditions
under which the work is carried on in any workroom in which explosive
materials are manufactured or handled, the application of subsection (2) to
that workroom would be inappropriate or unnecessary, he may by certificate
except the workroom from that subsection subject to any conditions specified
in the certificate.

Subs.(4) rep. by SR 1979/246

(5) In calculating for the purposes of this section the amount of cubic space
in any room no space more than fourteen feet from the floor shall be taken
into account and, where a room contains a gallery, the gallery shall be
treated for the purposes of this section as if it were partitioned off from
the remainder of the room and formed a separate room.

(6) If the chief inspector so requires, there shall be posted in the workroom
a notice specifying the number of persons who, having regard to the provisions
of this section, may be employed in that room.

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