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FACTORIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1965 - SECT 20

Self-acting machines.

20.(1) In any factory or part of a factory to which this subsection applies
any traversing part of any self-acting machine and any material carried
thereon shall not, if the space over which it runs is a space over which any
person is liable to pass, whether in the course of his employment or
otherwise, be allowed on its outward or inward traverse to run within a
distance of eighteen inches from any fixed structure which is not part of the
machine; but nothing in this subsection shall prevent any portion of the
traversing carriage of any self-acting spinning mule being allowed to run to a
point twelve inches distant from any part of the head-stock of another such
machine.

(2) Subsection (1) applies

(a)to any factory erected after the 31st December 1895; and

(b)to any factory or part of a factory reconstructed after the 24th November
1938; and

(c)to any extension of or addition to a factory made after the 24th November
1938.

(3) All practicable steps shall be taken by instructions to the person in
charge of the machine and otherwise to ensure that no person employed shall be
in the space between any traversing part of a self-acting spinning mule and
any fixed part of the machine towards which the traversing part moves on the
inward run, except when the machine is stopped with the traversing part on the
outward run.

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