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                                              FACTORIES, OFFICES AND SHOPS ACT, 
                                              1970 (ACT 328)</span></p>
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                                              As Amended by</span></p>
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                                              FACTORIES, OFFICES AND SHOPS ACT 
                                              (AMENDMENT) LAW, 1983 (PNDCL 66).1</span></p>
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                                              FACTORIES, OFFICES AND SHOPS 
                                              (AMENDMENT) LAW, 1991 (PNDCL 
                                              275).2</span></p>
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                                              GHANA NATIONAL FIRE SERVICE ACT, 
                                              1997 (ACT 537).3</span></p>
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                                              ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS</span></p>
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                                              Section</span></p>
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                                              PART 1&#8212;REGISTRATION OF FACTORIES</span></p>
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                                              1. Register of factories</span></p>
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                                              2. Registration of existing 
                                              factories</span></p>
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                                              3. Registration of new factories</span></p>
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                                              4. Alterations and building of new 
                                              factories</span></p>
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                                              5. Offences.</span></p>
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                                              PART 2&#8212;REGISTERS AND PRESCRIBED 
                                              ABSTRACT</span></p>
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                                              6. General registers</span></p>
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                                              7. Preservation of registers and 
                                              records</span></p>
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                                              8. Prescribed abstract, 
                                              regulations and notices</span></p>
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                                              PART 3&#8212;PARTICULARS OF OFFICES AND 
                                              SHOPS</span></p>
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                                              9. Particulars to be given on 
                                              request</span></p>
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                                              PART 4&#8212;NOTIFICATION OF ACCIDENTS</span></p>
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                                              10. Notification of accidents</span></p>
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                                              11. Notification of dangerous 
                                              occurrences</span></p>
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                                              12. Notification of industrial 
                                              diseases</span></p>
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                                              PART 5&#8212;HEALTH AND WELFARE</span></p>
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                                              13. Cleanliness</span></p>
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                                              14. Overcrowding</span></p>
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                                              15. Ventilation</span></p>
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                                              16. Washing facilities</span></p>
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                                              17. Lighting</span></p>
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                                              18. Drainage of floors</span></p>
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                                              19. Sanitary conveniences</span></p>
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                                              20. Drinking water</span></p>
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                                              21. Accommodation for clothing</span></p>
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                                              22. Sitting facilities</span></p>
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                                              23. Removal of dust or fumes</span></p>
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                                              24. Taking of meals</span></p>
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                                              25. Protective clothing and 
                                              appliances</span></p>
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                                              26. Noise and vibrations</span></p>
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                                              27. Prohibition of lifting 
                                              excessive weights</span></p>
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                                              28. First aid</span></p>
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                                              29. Power to require medical 
                                              supervision</span></p>
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                                              30. Health and wealth regulations</span></p>
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                                              PART 6&#8212;SAFETY</span></p>
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                                              31. Prevention of fire</span></p>
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                                              32. Fire alarms</span></p>
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                                              33. Safety provisions in case of 
                                              fire</span></p>
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                                              34. Safe means of access and safe 
                                              place of employment</span></p>
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                                              35. Floors, passages and stairs</span></p>
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                                              36. Training and supervision</span></p>
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                                              37. Cleaning of machinery</span></p>
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                                              38. Fencing of dangerous machinery</span></p>
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                                              39. Safeguards for transmission 
                                              machinery</span></p>
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                                              40. Construction and maintenance 
                                              of fencing</span></p>
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                                              41. Construction and sale of 
                                              machinery</span></p>
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                                              42. Vessels containing dangerous 
                                              liquids</span></p>
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                                              43. Self-acting machines</span></p>
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                                              44. Hoists and lifts</span></p>
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                                              45. Chains, ropes and lifting 
                                              tackle</span></p>
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                                              46. Cranes and other lifting 
                                              machines</span></p>
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                                              47. Register of chains, ropes, 
                                              lifting tackle and machines</span></p>
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                                              48. Dangerous fumes and lack of 
                                              oxygen</span></p>
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                                              49. Explosive or inflammable 
                                              substances</span></p>
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                                              50. Steam boilers, receivers and 
                                              containers, and air receivers</span></p>
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                                              51. Safety regulations</span></p>
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                                              PART 7&#8212;DANGEROUS CONDITIONS AND 
                                              PRACTICES</span></p>
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                                              52. Dangerous conditions and 
                                              practices</span></p>
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                                              53. Dangerous premises</span></p>
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                                              54. Appeal to High Court</span></p>
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                                              PART 8&#8212;SPECIAL APPLICATIONS AND 
                                              EXTENSIONS</span></p>
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                                              55. Part of building as separate 
                                              factory or shop</span></p>
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                                              56. Docks, wharves, quays and 
                                              warehouses</span></p>
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                                              57. Building operations and works 
                                              of engineering construction</span></p>
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                                              58. Premises in which steam 
                                              boilers are used</span></p>
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                                              59. Institutions</span></p>
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                                              PART 9&#8212;OFFENCES AND LEGAL 
                                              PROCEEDINGS</span></p>
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                                              60. Liability for contravention</span></p>
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                                              61. Liability of actual offender</span></p>
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                                              62. Liability of owner of machine</span></p>
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                                              63. General penalty</span></p>
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                                              64. Offences continued after 
                                              conviction</span></p>
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                                              65. Court order to remedy 
                                              contravention</span></p>
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                                              66. Penalty for death or injury</span></p>
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                                              67. Forgery, uttering and 
                                              personation</span></p>
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                                              68. Prosecution of offences</span></p>
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                                              69. Special provisions as to 
                                              evidence</span></p>
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                                              70. Service of documents, etc.</span></p>
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                                              71. Power to modify agreement</span></p>
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                                              72. Power to apportion expenses</span></p>
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                                              73. Inspector may conduct court 
                                              proceedings</span></p>
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                                              PART 10&#8212;ADMINISTRATION</span></p>
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                                              74. Appointment of Inspectors</span></p>
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                                              75. Powers of Inspectors</span></p>
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                                              76. Obstruction of Inspector</span></p>
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                                              77. Power to take samples</span></p>
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                                              PART 11&#8212;GENERAL</span></p>
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                                              78. Duties of persons employed</span></p>
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                                              79. Notices and certificates</span></p>
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                                              80. Deductions from wages 
                                              prohibited</span></p>
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                                              81. Exemption</span></p>
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                                              82. Application</span></p>
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                                              83. Definition of factory</span></p>
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                                              84. Definition of an office</span></p>
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                                              85. Definition of a shop</span></p>
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                                              86. Interpretation</span></p>
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                                              87. Repeal and savings</span></p>
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                                              88. Commencement</span></p>
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                                              88A. Commencement</span></p>
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                                              SCHEDULES</span></p>
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                                              First Schedule</span></p>
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                                              Second Schedule</span></p>
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                                              Third Schedule</span></p>
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                                              Fourth Schedule</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
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                                              THE THREE HUNDRED AND 
                                              TWENTY-EIGHTH</span></p>
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                                              ACT OF THE PARLIAMENT OF THE 
                                              REPUBLIC OF GHANA ENTITLED</span></p>
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                                              THE FACTORIES, OFFICES AND SHOPS 
                                              ACT, 1970.</span></b></p>
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                                              AN ACT to provide for the 
                                              registration of factories, the 
                                              health, welfare and safety of 
                                              persons employed in factories, 
                                              offices, shops and other places, 
                                              and matters connected therewith.</span></p>
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                                              DATE OF ASSENT:&nbsp; 12th May, 1970</span></p>
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                                              BE IT ENACTED by the Presidential 
                                              Commission and the National 
                                              Assembly in this present 
                                              Parliament assembled as follows:&#8212;</span></p>
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                                              PART 1&#8212;REGISTRATION OF FACTORIES</span></p>
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                                              Section 1&#8212;Register of Factories.</span></b></p>
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                                              The Chief Inspector shall keep a 
                                              register of factories in which he 
                                              shall cause to be entered such 
                                              particulars in relation to every 
                                              factory required to be registered 
                                              under this Act as he may consider 
                                              necessary or desirable.</span></p>
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                                              Section 2&#8212;Registration of Existing 
                                              Factories.</span></b></p>
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                                              (1) Every person who occupies a 
                                              factory shall within one month 
                                              after the commencement of this Act 
                                              apply for its registration by 
                                              sending to the Chief Inspector a 
                                              notice containing the particulars 
                                              set out in the First Schedule.</span></p>
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                                              (2) On receipt of such notice the 
                                              Chief Inspector shall register the 
                                              factory and shall issue to the 
                                              occupier a Certificate of 
                                              Registration upon the payment by 
                                              the occupier of the prescribed 
                                              fee. [As amended by Factories, 
                                              Offices and Shops (Amendment) Law, 
                                              1983 (PNDCL 66) s. 1(a)]</span></p>
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                                              (3) Every certificate of 
                                              registration issued under this 
                                              section shall be an annual 
                                              certificate and shall expire on 
                                              the 31st day of December of the 
                                              year in which it is issued. [As 
                                              inserted by Factories, Offices and 
                                              Shops (Amendment) Law, 1983 (PNDCL 
                                              66) s. 1(b)]</span></p>
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                                              <b>
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                                              Section 3&#8212;Registration of New 
                                              Factories.</span></b></p>
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                                              (1) Any person who intends to 
                                              occupy or use any premises as a 
                                              factory after the commencement of 
                                              this Act shall, not less than one 
                                              month before he begins to occupy 
                                              or use the premises as a factory, 
                                              apply for the registration of the 
                                              premises by sending to the Chief 
                                              Inspector a notice containing the 
                                              particulars set out in the First 
                                              Schedule.</span></p>
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                                              (2) On receipt of such notice the 
                                              Chief Inspector shall, within 
                                              three months, register the factory 
                                              and shall issue to the occupier a 
                                              Certificate of Registration upon 
                                              the payment by the occupier of the 
                                              prescribed fee. [As amended by 
                                              Factories, Offices and Shops 
                                              (Amendment) Law, 1983 (PNDCL 66) 
                                              s. 1(c)]</span></p>
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                                              (3) Every certificate of 
                                              registration issued under this 
                                              section shall be an annual 
                                              certificate and shall expire on 
                                              the 31st day of December of the 
                                              year in which it is issued. [As 
                                              inserted by Factories, Offices and 
                                              Shops (Amendment) Law, 1983 (PNDCL 
                                              66) s. 1(d)]</span></p>
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                                              Section 3A&#8212;Renewal of Certificate 
                                              of Registration.</span></b></p>
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                                              The provisions of this part which 
                                              relate to the issue of a 
                                              certificate of registration shall 
                                              apply to any application for the 
                                              renewal of a certificate of 
                                              registration and to such renewal. 
                                              [As inserted by Factories, Offices 
                                              and Shops (Amendment) Law, 1983 (PNDCL 
                                              66) s. 1(e)]</span></p>
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                                              Section 4&#8212;Alterations and Building 
                                              of New Factories.</span></b></p>
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                                              (1) No person shall commence or 
                                              permit or cause to be commenced&#8212;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (a) the building of any premises 
                                              intended to be used as a factory; 
                                              or</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (b) any works to alter or add to 
                                              any factory or premises intended 
                                              to be used as a factory,</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              unless he has first submitted to 
                                              the Chief Inspector or to the 
                                              Inspector for the district not 
                                              less than one month before such 
                                              commencement proper plans of such 
                                              building works, alterations or 
                                              additions accompanied by the 
                                              particulars set out in the Second 
                                              Schedule.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (2) The Chief Inspector may 
                                              require such changes to be made in 
                                              the building plans as are 
                                              reasonably necessary to ensure 
                                              compliance with the provisions of 
                                              this Act relating to health, 
                                              welfare and safety, and may, in 
                                              the case of the building of a new 
                                              factory, refuse to register the 
                                              factory under section 3 until his 
                                              requirements have been complied 
                                              with.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 5&#8212;Offences.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Any person who contravenes any 
                                              provision of section 2(1), 3(1) or 
                                              4(1) shall be guilty of an offence 
                                              and liable on conviction to a fine 
                                              not exceeding two hundred thousand 
                                              cedis. [As amended by the 
                                              Factories, Offices and Shops 
                                              (Amendment) Law, 1991 (PNDCL 275) 
                                              s.1(a)]</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              PART 2&#8212;REGISTERS AND PRESCRIBED 
                                              ABSTRACT</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 6&#8212;General Registers.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (1) There shall be kept in every 
                                              factory a general register in the 
                                              prescribed form, and there shall 
                                              be entered in or attached to that 
                                              register&#8212;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (a) the Certificate of 
                                              Registration of the factory;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (b) every other certificate issued 
                                              in respect of the factory by the 
                                              Chief Inspector;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (c) the prescribed particulars 
                                              relating to the cleanliness of the 
                                              factory;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (d) the prescribed particulars of 
                                              every accident and case of 
                                              occupational disease occurring in 
                                              the factory;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (e) all reports and particulars 
                                              required by this Act to be entered 
                                              in or attached to the general 
                                              register;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (f) such other matters as may be 
                                              prescribed.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (2) The occupier of a factory 
                                              shall send to an Inspector such 
                                              extracts from the general register 
                                              as he may require for the 
                                              execution of his duties under this 
                                              Act.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 7&#8212;Preservation of 
                                              Registers and Records.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              The general register and every 
                                              other register or record kept in 
                                              pursuance of this Act shall be 
                                              preserved and kept available for 
                                              inspection by any Inspector for 
                                              two years after the date of the 
                                              last entry therein.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 8&#8212;Prescribed Abstract, 
                                              Regulations and Notices.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (1) There shall be kept posted in 
                                              a prominent position in every 
                                              factory&#8212;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (a) the prescribed abstract of 
                                              this Act;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (b) a notice of the address of the 
                                              Chief Inspector and of the nearest 
                                              Inspector and labour officer;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (c) printed copies of any 
                                              regulations made under this Act 
                                              which are in force in the factory, 
                                              or the prescribed abstracts 
                                              thereof; and</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (d) every other notice or document 
                                              required by this Act to be posted 
                                              in the factory.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (2) The Secretary may by 
                                              legislative instrument make 
                                              regulations&#8212;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (a) prescribing the abstracts of 
                                              this Act which shall be kept 
                                              posted in pursuance of this 
                                              section;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (b) prescribing any regulations or 
                                              abstracts thereof made under this 
                                              Act which are in force in the 
                                              factory, and which shall be kept 
                                              posted in pursuance of this 
                                              section;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (c) prescribing fees in respect of 
                                              certificates of registration and 
                                              their renewal;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (d) for otherwise giving effect to 
                                              the principles and purposes of the 
                                              Act. [As substituted by the 
                                              Factories, Offices and Shops 
                                              (Amendment) Law, 1983, (PNDCL 66), 
                                              s.1(g)].</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              PART 3&#8212;PARTICULARS OF OFFICES AND 
                                              SHOPS</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 9&#8212;Particulars to be given 
                                              on Request.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Every person who occupies any 
                                              office or shop to which this Act 
                                              applies shall, if so requested by 
                                              an Inspector, within one month 
                                              serve on the Chief Inspector a 
                                              notice containing the particulars 
                                              set out in the Third Schedule.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              PART 4&#8212;NOTIFICATION OF ACCIDENTS</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 10&#8212;Notification of 
                                              Accidents.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (1) Where an accident in any 
                                              factory, office or shop&#8212;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (a) causes the death of a person 
                                              employed therein; or</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (b) disables any such person for 
                                              more than three days from earning 
                                              full wages at work at which he was 
                                              employed,</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              the occupier shall forthwith send 
                                              written notice of the accident, in 
                                              the prescribed form and containing 
                                              the prescribed particulars, to the 
                                              Chief Inspector or the Inspector 
                                              for the district.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (2) Where an accident causing 
                                              disablement is notified under this 
                                              section, and after notification 
                                              results in the death of the person 
                                              disabled, the occupier shall, as 
                                              soon as the death comes to his 
                                              notice, send written notice of the 
                                              death to the Chief Inspector or 
                                              the Inspector for the district.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (3) Where any accident to which 
                                              this section applies occurs to a 
                                              person employed to work in any 
                                              factory, office or shop and the 
                                              occupier of the premises is not 
                                              the actual employer of the person 
                                              killed or injured, the actual 
                                              employer shall, if he fails to 
                                              report the accident to the 
                                              occupier immediately, be guilty of 
                                              an offence and liable on 
                                              conviction to a fine not exceeding 
                                              one hundred thousand cedis. [As 
                                              amended by the Factories, Offices 
                                              and Shops (Amendment) Law, 1991 (PNDCL 
                                              275), s.1(b)]</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 11&#8212;Notification of 
                                              Dangerous Occurrences.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (1) Written notice of every 
                                              dangerous occurrence to which this 
                                              section applies occurring in any 
                                              factory, office or shop shall, 
                                              whether death or disablement is 
                                              caused or not, forthwith be sent 
                                              by the occupier in the prescribed 
                                              form containing the prescribed 
                                              particulars to the Chief Inspector 
                                              or the Inspector for the district.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (2) The dangerous occurrences to 
                                              which this section applies are&#8212;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (a) all cases of explosion, fire 
                                              and collapse of buildings;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (b) accidents to machinery or 
                                              plant likely to cause risk of 
                                              serious bodily injury to persons 
                                              employed;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (c) collapse, overturning or 
                                              failure of a crane, derrick, 
                                              winch, hoist or other appliance 
                                              used in raising or lowering 
                                              persons or goods;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (d) bursting of a revolving 
                                              vessel, wheel, grindstone or 
                                              grinding wheel moved by mechanical 
                                              power.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 12&#8212;Notification of 
                                              Industrial Diseases.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (1) Written notice of every case 
                                              of industrial disease to which 
                                              this section applies occurring in 
                                              a factory or shop shall forthwith 
                                              be sent by the occupier in the 
                                              prescribed form and containing the 
                                              prescribed particulars to the 
                                              Chief Inspector or the Inspector 
                                              for the district.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (2) The industrial diseases to 
                                              which this section applies are 
                                              lead, phosphorus, manganese, 
                                              arsenical and mercurial poisoning, 
                                              toxic anaemia, toxic jaundice, 
                                              anthrax, ulceration and any other 
                                              prescribed illness or disease.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              PART 5&#8212;HEALTH AND WELFARE</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 13&#8212;Cleanliness.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (1) Every factory, office and shop 
                                              and all furniture, furnishing and 
                                              fittings therein shall be kept in 
                                              a clean state.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (2) Accumulations of dirt and 
                                              refuse shall be removed daily from 
                                              the floors and benches of 
                                              workrooms, and from staircases and 
                                              passages.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (3) The floor of every office, 
                                              shop and workroom shall be cleaned 
                                              at least once a week by washing, 
                                              sweeping or some other suitable 
                                              and effective method.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (4) In every factory, all inside 
                                              walls and partitions, and all 
                                              ceilings or tops of rooms, and all 
                                              walls, sides and tops of passages 
                                              and staircases shall&#8212;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (a) where they have a smooth 
                                              impervious surface, be washed with 
                                              hot water and soap or otherwise 
                                              suitably cleaned at least once in 
                                              every twelve months;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (b) where they are varnished or 
                                              painted with oil paint, be 
                                              revarnished or repainted at least 
                                              once in every five years, and at 
                                              least once in every twelve months 
                                              be washed with hot water and soap 
                                              or otherwise suitably cleaned; and</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (c) in other cases, be whitewashed 
                                              or colour-washed at least once in 
                                              every twelve months.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (5) Where the Chief Inspector is 
                                              satisfied that any provision of 
                                              this section is inappropriate in 
                                              relation to any premises, he may 
                                              by certificate in writing exempt 
                                              those premises from such 
                                              provision.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 14&#8212;Overcrowding.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (1) No room comprised in or 
                                              constituting a factory, office or 
                                              shop shall, while work is carried 
                                              on therein, be so overcrowded as 
                                              to cause risk of injury to the 
                                              health of persons working therein; 
                                              and in determining whether any 
                                              such room is overcrowded or not, 
                                              account shall be taken not only of 
                                              the number of persons who may be 
                                              expected to be working in the room 
                                              at any time but also of the space 
                                              in the room occupied by furniture, 
                                              furnishings, fittings, machinery, 
                                              plant, equipment and appliances.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (2) The floor area (in square 
                                              feet) or capacity (in cubic feet) 
                                              for each person habitually 
                                              employed to work in any room to 
                                              which this section applies shall 
                                              not be less than 40 square feet or 
                                              400 cubic feet respectively.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (3) Every workroom shall be not 
                                              less than nine feet in height, 
                                              measured from the floor to the 
                                              lowest point of the ceiling or, 
                                              where there is no ceiling to the 
                                              lowest point of the roofing 
                                              material.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (4) Where the Chief Inspector is 
                                              satisfied that the special 
                                              conditions under which work is 
                                              carried on in any workroom render 
                                              the application of subsection (2) 
                                              or (3) inappropriate or 
                                              unnecessary, he may by certificate 
                                              in writing exempt the workroom 
                                              from those provisions subject to 
                                              any conditions specified in the 
                                              certificate.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (5) In calculating for the 
                                              purposes of this section the cubic 
                                              space in any room, no space more 
                                              than fourteen feet from the floor 
                                              shall be taken into account.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 15&#8212;Ventilation.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Effective and suitable provision 
                                              shall be made in all factories, 
                                              offices and shops to secure and 
                                              maintain by the circulation of 
                                              fresh air in each workroom the 
                                              adequate ventilation of the room.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 16&#8212;Washing Facilities.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (1) Adequate and suitable washing 
                                              facilities, conveniently 
                                              accessible for the use of all 
                                              persons employed, shall be 
                                              provided and maintained in a clean 
                                              and orderly condition in every 
                                              factory, office and shop.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (2) Where the Chief Inspector is 
                                              satisfied that, by reason of the 
                                              difficulty of obtaining an 
                                              adequate supply of water or any 
                                              other special circumstances, the 
                                              application of this section to any 
                                              premises would be unreasonable, he 
                                              may by certificate in writing 
                                              exempt those premises from the 
                                              requirements of this section.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 17&#8212;Lighting.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (1) Effective provision shall be 
                                              made to secure and maintain 
                                              sufficient and suitable lighting, 
                                              whether natural or artificial, in 
                                              every part of any factory, office 
                                              or shop in which persons are 
                                              working or passing.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (2) All apparatus installed for 
                                              producing artificial lighting 
                                              where lighting is required&nbsp; by 
                                              this section shall be properly 
                                              maintained.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (3) All glazed windows and 
                                              skylights used for the lighting of 
                                              any part of a factory, office or 
                                              shop shall, so far as practicable, 
                                              be kept clean on both the inner 
                                              and outer surfaces and free from 
                                              obstruction; but this subsection 
                                              shall not affect the whitewashing 
                                              or shading of windows or skylights 
                                              to mitigate heat or glare.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 18&#8212;Drainage of Floors.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Where any process is carried on in 
                                              any factory or shop which renders 
                                              a floor liable to be wet to such 
                                              an extent that the water is 
                                              capable of being removed by 
                                              drainage, effective means shall be 
                                              provided and maintained to drain 
                                              off the water.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 19&#8212;Sanitary Conveniences.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (1) Adequate and suitable sanitary 
                                              conveniences conveniently 
                                              accessible to persons employed 
                                              shall be provided, maintained and 
                                              kept clean in every factory, 
                                              office and shop, and effective 
                                              provision shall be made for their 
                                              lighting and ventilation.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (2) Where persons of both sexes 
                                              are employed (except where the 
                                              only persons employed are members 
                                              of the same family, or where less 
                                              than five persons are employed), 
                                              separate conveniences shall be 
                                              provided for males and females.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (3) The Minister may by executive 
                                              instrument direct that the 
                                              provisions of this section shall, 
                                              in any area, be enforced by the 
                                              local authority.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (4) Where an Inspector finds any 
                                              act or default in relation to any 
                                              drain, sanitary convenience or 
                                              water supply, or any nuisance or 
                                              other matter in any premises to 
                                              which this Act applies, which 
                                              appears to him to be the concern 
                                              of the local authority under this 
                                              section or under any other 
                                              enactment, he shall give notice 
                                              thereof in writing to the local 
                                              authority.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 20&#8212;Drinking Water.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (1) An adequate supply of 
                                              wholesome drinking water shall be 
                                              provided and maintained at 
                                              suitable points conveniently 
                                              accessible to all persons employed 
                                              in every factory, office or shop.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (2) Where a supply of drinking 
                                              water is not piped, it shall be 
                                              contained in suitable vessels and 
                                              shall be renewed at least daily; 
                                              and all practicable steps shall be 
                                              taken to preserve the water and 
                                              vessels from contamination.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (3) A drinking water supply, 
                                              whether piped or not, shall in 
                                              such cases as an Inspector may 
                                              direct be clearly marked &quot;Drinking 
                                              Water&quot;.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 21&#8212;Accommodation for 
                                              Clothing.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Adequate and suitable 
                                              accommodation for clothing not 
                                              worn during working hours shall be 
                                              provided and maintained at 
                                              suitable places for the use of all 
                                              persons employed in any factory, 
                                              office or shop.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 22&#8212;Sitting Facilities.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (1) Where persons employed in any 
                                              factory, office or shop have in 
                                              the course of their work 
                                              reasonable opportunities for 
                                              sitting without detriment to their 
                                              work, there shall be provided and 
                                              maintained for their use, at 
                                              suitable places conveniently 
                                              accessible to them, suitable 
                                              facilities for sitting sufficient 
                                              to enable them to take advantage 
                                              of those opportunities.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (2) Where a substantial proportion 
                                              of such work can properly be done 
                                              sitting&#8212;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (a) there shall be provided and 
                                              maintained for any employed person 
                                              doing that work a seat of a design 
                                              construction and size suitable for 
                                              him and the work, together with a 
                                              footrest on which he can readily 
                                              and comfortably support his feet 
                                              if he cannot do so without one;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (b) the arrangements shall be such 
                                              that the seat is adequately and 
                                              properly supported while in use 
                                              for the purpose for which it is 
                                              provided.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 23&#8212;Removal of Dust or 
                                              Fumes.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (1) Where in any factory process 
                                              there is given off dust, fumes or 
                                              other impurities of such a 
                                              character or to such an extent as 
                                              to be likely to be injurious or 
                                              offensive to the persons employed, 
                                              or any substantial quantity of 
                                              dust of any kind, all practicable 
                                              measures shall be taken to protect 
                                              the persons employed against 
                                              inhalation of the dust, fumes or 
                                              other impurities and to prevent 
                                              them accumulating in any workroom, 
                                              and in particular, where the 
                                              nature of the process makes it 
                                              practicable, exhaust appliances 
                                              shall be provided and maintained, 
                                              as near as possible to the point 
                                              of origin of the dust, fumes or 
                                              other impurities, so as to prevent 
                                              them entering the air of any 
                                              workroom.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (2) No stationary internal 
                                              combustion engine shall be used in 
                                              any factory unless provision is 
                                              made to conduct the exhaust gases 
                                              from the engine into the open air.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 24&#8212;Taking of Meals.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (1) Where in any room of a factory 
                                              or shop any poisonous or otherwise 
                                              injurious substance is so used as 
                                              to give rise to dust or fumes, no 
                                              person shall be allowed to take 
                                              food to drink in that room.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (2) Suitable provision shall be 
                                              made to enable persons employed in 
                                              any such room to take their meals 
                                              elsewhere in the premises.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 25&#8212;Protective Clothing and 
                                              Appliances.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (1) Where in any factory or shop 
                                              workers are employed in any 
                                              process involving excessive 
                                              exposure to wet or to any 
                                              injurious or offensive substance, 
                                              suitable protective clothing and 
                                              appliances, including, where 
                                              necessary, suitable gloves, 
                                              footwear, goggles and head 
                                              coverings, shall be provided and 
                                              maintained for their use.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (2) In the case of any of the 
                                              processes specified in the Fourth 
                                              Schedule, suitable goggles or 
                                              effective screens shall be 
                                              provided to protect the eyes of 
                                              persons employed in the process.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (3) Where in any factory electric 
                                              arc welding is carried on, 
                                              effective provision shall be made, 
                                              by screening or otherwise, to 
                                              prevent persons employed (other 
                                              than persons employed in the 
                                              welding process) being exposed to 
                                              the electric arc flash.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 26&#8212;Noise and Vibrations.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Noise and vibrations likely to 
                                              affect the health of persons 
                                              employed in any factory, office or 
                                              shop shall be reduced as far as 
                                              possible by appropriate and 
                                              practicable measures.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 27&#8212;Prohibition of lifting 
                                              Excessive Weights.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              No person shall in the course of 
                                              his work be required to lift, 
                                              carry or move any load so heavy as 
                                              to be likely to cause injury to 
                                              him.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 28&#8212;First Aid.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (1) A first aid box or cupboard of 
                                              the prescribed standard shall be 
                                              provided and maintained in every 
                                              factory, office and shop so as to 
                                              be readily accessible, and where 
                                              more than 150 persons are employed 
                                              an additional box or cupboard 
                                              shall be provided for each 
                                              additional 150 persons.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (2) Nothing except appliances or 
                                              requisites for first aid shall be 
                                              kept in a first aid box or 
                                              cupboard.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (3) Each first aid box or cupboard 
                                              shall be placed under the charge 
                                              of a responsible person, who shall 
                                              if possible be a person with 
                                              knowledge of first aid and who 
                                              shall always be readily available 
                                              during working hours.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (4) There shall be displayed in 
                                              the premises so as to be easily 
                                              seen and read by the persons 
                                              employed to work therein a notice 
                                              stating the name of the person in 
                                              charge of the box or cupboard.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 29&#8212;Power to require 
                                              Medical Supervision.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Where it appears to the Minister 
                                              that in any factory, shop, or 
                                              class of factory or shop&#8212;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (a) cases of illness have occurred 
                                              which he has reason to believe may 
                                              be due to the nature of a process 
                                              or other conditions of work; or</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (b) by reason of alteration of any 
                                              process, or the introduction of 
                                              any new process or new substance 
                                              for use in a process, there may be 
                                              risk of injury to the health of 
                                              persons employed in that process; 
                                              or</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (c) young persons are or are about 
                                              to be employed in work which may 
                                              cause risk of injury to their 
                                              health; or</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (d) there may be risk of injury to 
                                              the health of persons employed 
                                              from any substance or material 
                                              brought to the factory or shop to 
                                              be used or handled therein, or 
                                              from any change in the conditions 
                                              of work or other conditions in the 
                                              factory or shop,</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              he may by written notice require 
                                              such reasonable arrangements to be 
                                              made for the medical supervision 
                                              of persons employed therein as he 
                                              may specify.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 30&#8212;Health and Welfare 
                                              Regulations.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (1) The Minister may by 
                                              legislative instrument make 
                                              regulations&#8212;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (a) modifying or extending for any 
                                              class of factory, office or shop 
                                              any provision of this Act imposing 
                                              requirements as to health or 
                                              welfare, where he is satisfied 
                                              that such modification or 
                                              extension is necessary to secure 
                                              the health or welfare of persons 
                                              employed;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (b) regulating the preparing and 
                                              taking of meals, ambulance and 
                                              first aid arrangements, rest 
                                              rooms, supply of protective 
                                              clothing, and the supply and use 
                                              of seats in workrooms;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (c) increasing the number of cubic 
                                              feet which must be allowed for 
                                              each person under section 14;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (d) prescribing standards of 
                                              adequate and suitable ventilation, 
                                              washing facilities, lighting and 
                                              sanitary conveniences;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (e) providing for the control of 
                                              noise and vibrations and 
                                              safeguarding the health of persons 
                                              subjected to noise and vibrations;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (f) prescribing the maximum 
                                              weights which may be lifted, 
                                              carried or moved by any person, 
                                              either generally or in relation to 
                                              particular circumstances;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (g) providing for the protection 
                                              of persons or any class of persons 
                                              working in any factory, office or 
                                              shop against risk of bodily injury 
                                              or injury to health arising out of 
                                              the use of any machinery, plant, 
                                              equipment, appliance or substance, 
                                              the carrying on of any operation 
                                              or the use of any process;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (h) otherwise for carrying out the 
                                              principles and purposes of this 
                                              Part.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (2) Regulations made under this 
                                              section may impose duties on 
                                              owners, employed persons and other 
                                              persons, as well as on occupiers.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              PART 6&#8212;SAFETY</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 31&#8212;Prevention of Fire</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              [Repealed by the Ghana National 
                                              Fire Service Act, 1997 (Act 537), 
                                              s.33(b)].</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 32&#8212;Fire Alarms</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              [Repealed by the Ghana National 
                                              Fire Service Act, 1997 (Act 537), 
                                              s.33(b)].</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 33&#8212;Safety Provisions in 
                                              Case of Fire.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              [Repealed by the Ghana National 
                                              Fire Service Act, 1997 (Act 537), 
                                              s.33(b)].</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 34&#8212;Safe Means of Access 
                                              and Safe Place of Employment.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (1) There shall, so far as is 
                                              reasonably practicable, be 
                                              provided and maintained safe means 
                                              of access to every place at which 
                                              any person has at any time to 
                                              work, and every such place shall, 
                                              so far as is reasonably 
                                              practicable, be made and kept safe 
                                              for any person working there.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (2) Where any person has to work 
                                              at a place from which he will be 
                                              liable to fall a distance more 
                                              than eight feet, means shall be 
                                              provided, so far as is reasonably 
                                              practicable, by fencing or 
                                              otherwise, to ensure his safety, 
                                              unless the place is one which 
                                              affords secure foot-hold and, 
                                              where necessary, secure hand-hold.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (3)&nbsp; Sufficient clear and 
                                              unobstructed space shall be 
                                              maintained at every machine while 
                                              in motion to enable the work to be 
                                              carried on without unnecessary 
                                              risk.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (4) Every teagle opening or 
                                              similar doorway used for hoisting 
                                              or lowering goods or materials, 
                                              whether by mechanical power or 
                                              otherwise, shall be securely 
                                              fenced, and shall be provided with 
                                              a secure hand-hold on each side of 
                                              the opening or doorway.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (5) The fencing referred to in 
                                              subsection (4) shall be properly 
                                              maintained and shall, except where 
                                              the hoisting or lowering of goods 
                                              or materials is being carried on 
                                              at the opening or doorway, be kept 
                                              in position.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 35&#8212;Floors, Passages and 
                                              Stairs.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (1) All floors, steps, stairs, 
                                              passages and gangways shall be of 
                                              sound construction and properly 
                                              maintained and shall, so far as is 
                                              reasonably practicable, be kept 
                                              free from any obstruction and from 
                                              any substance likely to cause 
                                              persons to slip.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (2) For every staircase in a 
                                              building or affording a means of 
                                              exit from a building, a 
                                              substantial hand-rail shall be 
                                              provided and maintained, which, if 
                                              the staircase has an open side, 
                                              shall be on that side, and, in the 
                                              case of a staircase having two 
                                              open sides or of a staircase 
                                              which, owing to the nature of its 
                                              construction or the condition of 
                                              the surface of the steps or other 
                                              special circumstances, is 
                                              specially liable to cause 
                                              accidents, such a hand-rail shall 
                                              be provided and maintained on both 
                                              sides.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (3) An open side of a staircase 
                                              shall also be guarded by the 
                                              provision and maintenance of a 
                                              lower rail or other effective 
                                              means to prevent any person from 
                                              accidentally falling through the 
                                              space between the hand-rail or 
                                              hand-hold and the steps of the 
                                              staircase.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (4) All openings in floors shall 
                                              be securely fenced, except insofar 
                                              as the nature of the work renders 
                                              such fencing impracticable.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (5) All ladders shall be soundly 
                                              constructed and properly 
                                              maintained.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 36&#8212;Training and 
                                              Supervision.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              No person shall be employed at any 
                                              machine or in any process liable 
                                              to cause bodily injury, unless&#8212;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (a) he has been fully instructed 
                                              as to the dangers likely to arise 
                                              in connection therewith and the 
                                              precautions to be observed; and</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (b) he has received sufficient 
                                              training in work at the machine or 
                                              in the process, or is under 
                                              adequate supervision by a person 
                                              who has a thorough knowledge and 
                                              experience of the machine or 
                                              process.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 37&#8212;Cleaning of Machinery.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (1) No woman or young person shall 
                                              clean any part of a machine if 
                                              such cleaning would expose the 
                                              woman or young person to risk of 
                                              injury from any moving part of 
                                              that or any adjacent machinery.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (2) No woman or young person shall 
                                              clean any part of a prime mover or 
                                              of any transmission machinery 
                                              while the prime mover or 
                                              transmission machinery is in 
                                              motion.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 38&#8212;Fencing of Dangerous 
                                              Machinery.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (1) Every dangerous part of any 
                                              machinery shall be securely fenced 
                                              unless it is in such a position or 
                                              of such construction as to be as 
                                              safe to every person employed or 
                                              working in the premises as it 
                                              would be if securely fenced.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (2) In so far as the safety of a 
                                              dangerous part of any machinery 
                                              cannot by reason of the nature of 
                                              the operation be secured by means 
                                              of a fixed guard, the requirements 
                                              of this section shall be deemed to 
                                              have been complied with if a 
                                              device is provided which in the 
                                              opinion of an Inspector 
                                              satisfactorily prevents the 
                                              operator from coming into contact 
                                              with that part.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (3) Without prejudice to the 
                                              generality of subsection (1), 
                                              &quot;dangerous part&quot; includes every 
                                              moving part of a prime mover, 
                                              every flywheel directly connected 
                                              to a prime mover, any part of a 
                                              stock-bar which projects beyond 
                                              the headstock of a lathe, every 
                                              part of any electric generator, 
                                              motor or rotary converter, and 
                                              every part of transmission 
                                              machinery.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 39&#8212;Safeguards for 
                                              Transmission Machinery.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (1) Efficient devices or 
                                              appliances shall be provided and 
                                              maintained in every room or place 
                                              where work is carried on by which 
                                              the power can promptly be cut off 
                                              from the transmission machinery in 
                                              that room or place.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (2) Every machine intended to be 
                                              driven by mechanical power shall 
                                              be provided with an efficient 
                                              starting and stopping appliance, 
                                              the control of which shall be in 
                                              such a position as to be readily 
                                              and conveniently operated by the 
                                              person operating the machine.
                                              </span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (3) No driving belt when not in 
                                              use shall be allowed to rest or 
                                              ride upon a revolving shaft which 
                                              forms part of the transmission 
                                              machinery.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (4) Suitable striking gear or 
                                              other efficient mechanical 
                                              appliances shall be provided and 
                                              maintained and used to move 
                                              driving belts to and from fast and 
                                              loose pulleys which form part of 
                                              the transmission machinery, and 
                                              any such gear or appliances shall 
                                              be so constructed, placed and 
                                              maintained as to prevent the 
                                              driving belt from creeping back on 
                                              to the fast pulley.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (5) The Chief Inspector may by 
                                              certificate in writing grant, 
                                              subject to any conditions 
                                              specified in the certificate, 
                                              exemption from compliance with any 
                                              requirements of this section&nbsp; in 
                                              any case where he is satisfied 
                                              that compliance with the 
                                              requirement is unnecessary or 
                                              impracticable.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 40&#8212;Construction and 
                                              Maintenance of Fencing.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              All fencing and other safeguards 
                                              provided in pursuance of sections 
                                              38 and 39 shall be of substantial 
                                              construction, and constantly 
                                              maintained and kept in position 
                                              while the parts required to be 
                                              fenced or safeguarded are in 
                                              motion or in use, except when any 
                                              such parts are necessarily exposed 
                                              for examination and for any 
                                              lubrication or adjustment shown by 
                                              such examination to be immediately 
                                              necessary, and all the conditions 
                                              specified in the relevant safety 
                                              regulations made under section 51 
                                              are complied with.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 41&#8212;Construction and Sale 
                                              of Machinery.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (1) In the case of any machine in 
                                              a factory which is intended to be 
                                              driven by mechanical power&#8212;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (a) every set-screw, bolt or key 
                                              on any revolving shaft, spindle, 
                                              wheel or opinion shall be so sunk, 
                                              encased, or otherwise effectively 
                                              guarded as to prevent danger; and</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (b) all spur and other toothed or 
                                              friction gearing, which does not 
                                              require frequent adjustment while 
                                              in motion, shall be completely 
                                              encased unless it is so situated 
                                              as to be as safe as it would be if 
                                              completely encased.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (2) Any person who sells or lets 
                                              on hire, or as agent of the seller 
                                              or hirer causes or procures to be 
                                              sold or let on hire, knowing it to 
                                              be for use in a factory in Ghana, 
                                              any machine intended to be driven 
                                              by mechanical power which does not 
                                              comply with the requirements of 
                                              this section shall be guilty of an 
                                              offence and liable on conviction 
                                              to a fine not exceeding two 
                                              hundred thousand cedis. [As 
                                              amended by the Factories and 
                                              Offices and Shops (Amendment) Law, 
                                              1991 (PNDCL 275), s.1(c)].</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 42&#8212;Vessels Containing 
                                              Dangerous Liquids.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (1) Every fixed vessel, structure, 
                                              sump or pit of which the edge is 
                                              level with or less than three feet 
                                              above the adjoining ground or 
                                              platform shall, if it contains any 
                                              scalding, corrosive or poisonous 
                                              liquid, either be securely covered 
                                              or be securely fenced to at least 
                                              three feet above that ground or 
                                              platform, or where by reason of 
                                              the nature of the work neither 
                                              secure covering nor secure fencing 
                                              to that height is practicable, all 
                                              practicable steps shall be taken 
                                              by covering, fencing or other 
                                              means to prevent any person from 
                                              falling into the vessel, 
                                              structure, sump or pit.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (2) A warning notice, indicating 
                                              the nature of the danger and in a 
                                              form readily understood by the 
                                              persons employed, shall be marked 
                                              on or attached to any plant to 
                                              which this section applies or, if 
                                              this is not reasonably 
                                              practicable, be posted nearby.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 43&#8212;Self-acting Machines.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              No traversing part of any 
                                              self-acting machine and no 
                                              material carried thereon shall, 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 traverse to run within a 
                                              distance of eighteen inches from 
                                              any fixed structure not being part 
                                              of the machine.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 44&#8212;Hoists and Lifts.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (1) Every hoist or lift shall be 
                                              of good mechanical construction, 
                                              sound material and adequate 
                                              strength, and shall be properly 
                                              maintained.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (2) Every hoistway or liftway 
                                              shall be completely enclosed with 
                                              fire-resisting materials, and all 
                                              means of access to the hoist or 
                                              lift shall be fitted with doors of 
                                              fire-resisting materials:</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Provided that any such hoistway or 
                                              liftway shall be enclosed at the 
                                              top only by some material easily 
                                              broken by fire, or be provided 
                                              with a vent at the top.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (3) For the purposes of this 
                                              section no lifting machine or 
                                              appliance shall be deemed to be a 
                                              hoist or lift unless it has a 
                                              platform or cage whose direction 
                                              of movement is restricted by a 
                                              guide or guides.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 45&#8212;Chains, Ropes and 
                                              Lifting Tackle.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              No chain, rope or lifting tackle 
                                              used to raise or lower persons, 
                                              goods or materials shall be used 
                                              unless it is of good construction, 
                                              sound material, adequate strength 
                                              and free from patent defect.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 46&#8212;Cranes and Other 
                                              Lifting Machines.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (1) All parts and working gear 
                                              whether fixed or movable, 
                                              including and anchoring and fixing 
                                              appliances, of every lifting 
                                              machine shall be of good 
                                              construction, sound material, 
                                              adequate strength and free from 
                                              patent defect, and shall be 
                                              properly maintained.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (2) All rails on which a 
                                              travelling crane moves and every 
                                              track on which the carriage of a 
                                              transporter or runway moves shall 
                                              be of proper size and adequate 
                                              strength, and have an even running 
                                              surface, and any such rails or 
                                              track shall be properly laid, 
                                              adequately supported or suspended, 
                                              and properly maintained.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (3) There shall be plainly marked 
                                              on every lifting machine the safe 
                                              working load or loads thereof, 
                                              except that in the case of a jib 
                                              crane so constructed that the safe 
                                              working load may be varied by the 
                                              raising or lowering of the jib, 
                                              there shall be attached thereto 
                                              either an automatic indicator of 
                                              safe working loads or a table 
                                              indicating the safe working loads 
                                              at corresponding inclinations of 
                                              the jib or corresponding radii of 
                                              the load.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (4) No lifting machine shall, 
                                              except for the purpose of a test, 
                                              be loaded beyond the safe working 
                                              load as marked or indicated under 
                                              subsection (3).</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (5) If any person is employed or 
                                              working on or near the wheel track 
                                              of an overhead travelling crane in 
                                              any place where he would be liable 
                                              to be struck by the crane, 
                                              effective measures shall be taken 
                                              to ensure that the crane does not 
                                              approach within twenty feet of 
                                              that place.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (6) If any person is employed or 
                                              working otherwise than as 
                                              mentioned in subsection (5) but in 
                                              a place above floor level where he 
                                              would be liable to be struck by an 
                                              overhead travelling crane, or by 
                                              any load carried by such a crane, 
                                              effective measures shall be taken 
                                              to warn him&nbsp; of the approach&nbsp; of 
                                              the crane, unless his work is so 
                                              connected with or dependent on the 
                                              movements of the crane as to make 
                                              a warning unnecessary.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (7) A lifting machine shall not be 
                                              operated except by a person 
                                              trained and competent to operate 
                                              that machine, except that it shall 
                                              be permissible for such machine to 
                                              be operated by a person who is 
                                              under the direct supervision of a 
                                              qualified person for the purpose 
                                              of training; and no person under 
                                              the age of eighteen shall be 
                                              employed to operate any lifting 
                                              machine driven by mechanical power 
                                              or to give signals to its 
                                              operator.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 47&#8212;Register of Chains, 
                                              Ropes, Lifting Tackle and 
                                              Machines.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">A 
                                              register containing all prescribed 
                                              particulars shall be kept in every 
                                              factory in respect of all chains, 
                                              ropes, or lifting tackle (except 
                                              fibre rope slings) to which 
                                              section 45 applies, and all 
                                              lifting machines to which section 
                                              46 applies.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 48&#8212;Dangerous Fumes and 
                                              Lack of Oxygen.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              No person shall enter or remain in 
                                              any chamber, tank, vat, pit, pipe, 
                                              flue or other confined space, or 
                                              in any confined space in which 
                                              dangerous fumes are likely to be 
                                              present or the proportion of 
                                              oxygen in the air is liable to 
                                              have been substantially reduced, 
                                              for any purpose unless he has been 
                                              authorised to enter by a 
                                              responsible person and either he 
                                              is wearing a suitable breathing 
                                              apparatus, or he is ensured of a 
                                              supply of air adequate for 
                                              respiration and to render harmless 
                                              any fumes.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 49&#8212;Explosive or 
                                              Inflammable Substances.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (1) Where, in connection with any 
                                              process giving rise to dust, gas, 
                                              or vapour, there may escape into 
                                              any workroom dust, gas or vapour 
                                              of such a character and to such an 
                                              extent as to be liable to explode 
                                              on ignition, all practicable steps 
                                              shall be taken to prevent such an 
                                              explosion by the enclosure of the 
                                              plant used in the process, and by 
                                              removal or prevention of 
                                              accumulation of the dust, gas or 
                                              vapour, and by exclusion or 
                                              effective enclosure of possible 
                                              sources of ignition.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (2) Where there is present in any 
                                              plant used in any such process 
                                              dust, gas or vapour of such a 
                                              character and to such an extent as 
                                              to be liable to explode on 
                                              ignition, all practicable steps 
                                              shall be taken to restrict the 
                                              spread and effects of such an 
                                              explosion by the provision, in 
                                              connection with the plant, of 
                                              chokes, baffles and vents or other 
                                              equally effective appliances, 
                                              unless the plant is so constructed 
                                              as to withstand the pressure 
                                              likely to be produced by any such 
                                              explosion.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (3) No plant, tank or vessel which 
                                              contains or has contained any 
                                              explosive or inflammable substance 
                                              shall be subjected to any welding, 
                                              brazing or soldering operation or 
                                              to any cutting or other operation 
                                              which involves the application of 
                                              heat, until all practicable steps 
                                              have been taken to remove the 
                                              substance and any fumes arising 
                                              from it or to render them 
                                              non-explosive or non-inflammable; 
                                              and if any plant, tank or vessel 
                                              has been subjected to any such 
                                              operation, no explosive or 
                                              inflammable substance shall be 
                                              allowed to enter the plant, tank 
                                              or vessel until the metal has 
                                              cooled sufficiently to prevent any 
                                              risk of igniting the substance.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (4) The Chief Inspector may by 
                                              certificate in writing, subject to 
                                              any conditions specified in the 
                                              certificate, grant exemption from 
                                              compliance with any of the 
                                              requirements of subsection (3) in 
                                              any case where he is satisfied 
                                              that compliance with the 
                                              requirement is unnecessary or 
                                              impracticable.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 50&#8212;Steam Boilers, 
                                              Receivers and Containers, and Air 
                                              Receivers.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (1) Every steam boiler or steam 
                                              receiver and all its fittings and 
                                              attachments shall be of good 
                                              construction, sound material, 
                                              adequate strength and free from 
                                              patent defect, and shall be 
                                              properly maintained.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (2) Every steam boiler attendant 
                                              shall be properly instructed as to 
                                              his duties.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (3) No work shall be permitted in 
                                              any boiler-furnace or boiler-flue 
                                              until it has been sufficiently 
                                              cooled by ventilation or otherwise 
                                              to make work safe for the persons 
                                              employed.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (4) Every steam container shall be 
                                              so maintained as to ensure that 
                                              the outlet is at all times kept 
                                              open and free from obstruction.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (5) Every air receiver and its 
                                              fittings shall be of sound 
                                              construction and properly 
                                              maintained.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 51&#8212;Safety Regulations.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (1) The Minister may by 
                                              legislative instrument make 
                                              regulations&#8212;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (a) providing for the supervision 
                                              of persons employed;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (b) prescribing particular means 
                                              for fighting fire in respect of 
                                              any class or description of 
                                              premises to which this Act 
                                              applies;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (c) providing for the testing and 
                                              examination of any means provided 
                                              for fighting fire, and for the 
                                              recording of particulars of the 
                                              tests and examinations and of any 
                                              defects found and action taken to 
                                              remedy the defects;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (d) prescribing the means of 
                                              escape in case of fire to be 
                                              provided in premises to which this 
                                              Act applies;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (e) providing for the fencing of 
                                              and safety requirements to be 
                                              observed in relation to any 
                                              particular machinery;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (f) prescribing conditions to be 
                                              observed in the examination, 
                                              lubrication or operation of any 
                                              dangerous part of any machinery;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (g) prescribing matters not to be 
                                              taken into account in determining 
                                              whether any part of machinery is 
                                              as safe as it would be if securely 
                                              fenced;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (h) prohibiting the sale or hire 
                                              of any machinery or plant which 
                                              does not comply with any safety 
                                              requirements specified in the 
                                              regulations;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">(i) 
                                              providing for the regular 
                                              examination, testing and repair of 
                                              hoists and lifts, and prescribing 
                                              safety measures to be observed in 
                                              relation to hoists and lifts;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (j) providing in respect of all 
                                              kinds of chains, ropes and lifting 
                                              tackle for tables of safe working 
                                              loads, testing, examination and 
                                              annealing;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (k) providing for the regular 
                                              examination, testing and repair of 
                                              all lifting machines, and 
                                              prescribing safety measures to be 
                                              observed in relation to lifting 
                                              machines;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (l) prescribing safety measures to 
                                              be observed when work has to be 
                                              done inside any confined space in 
                                              which dangerous fumes are likely 
                                              to be present;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (m) providing for the examination 
                                              and testing of steam boilers and 
                                              steam receivers and all their 
                                              fittings and attachments;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (n) providing for the cleaning, 
                                              examination and testing of air 
                                              receivers;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (o) prescribing standards of 
                                              construction, specifications, 
                                              safety requirements and safety 
                                              measures to be observed in 
                                              relation to steam boilers, 
                                              receivers and containers and air 
                                              containers;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (p) prescribing the conditions 
                                              under which steam boilers and 
                                              steam receivers, whether new or 
                                              previously used, may be taken into 
                                              use;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (q) prohibiting the employment of, 
                                              or modifying or limiting the hours 
                                              of employment of, all persons or 
                                              any class of persons in connection 
                                              with any manufacture, machinery, 
                                              plant, equipment, appliance, 
                                              process or description of manual 
                                              labour which in his opinion is of 
                                              such a nature as to cause risk of 
                                              bodily injury or to be offensive 
                                              to any persons employed in a 
                                              factory, office or shop;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (r) prohibiting, limiting or 
                                              controlling the use of any 
                                              material or process in any 
                                              factory, office or shop, in the 
                                              interest of the welfare or persons 
                                              employed therein, or where in his 
                                              opinion the use of such material 
                                              or process may cause risk of 
                                              bodily injury or be offensive to 
                                              any persons employed therein;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (s) modifying or extending with 
                                              respect to any class of factory, 
                                              office or shop any provision of 
                                              this Act imposing safety 
                                              requirements, where he is 
                                              satisfied that such modification 
                                              or extension is necessary to 
                                              prevent risk of bodily injury to 
                                              persons employed therein:</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (t) otherwise for carrying out the 
                                              principles and purposes of this 
                                              Part.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (2) Regulations made under this 
                                              section may impose duties on 
                                              owners, employed persons and other 
                                              persons, as well as on occupiers.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              PART 7&#8212;DANGEROUS CONDITIONS AND 
                                              PRACTICES</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 52&#8212;Dangerous Conditions 
                                              and Practices</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (1) An Inspector may complain to a 
                                              District Court in relation to any 
                                              factory, office or shop&#8212;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (a) that any part of the ways, 
                                              works, machinery or plant used 
                                              therein is in such a condition or 
                                              is so constructed or placed that 
                                              it cannot be used without risk of 
                                              bodily injury or injury to health; 
                                              or</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (b) that any process or work is 
                                              carried on or anything is or has 
                                              been done therein in such a manner 
                                              as to cause risk of bodily injury 
                                              or injury to health; or</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (c) that the conditions in regard 
                                              to escape in case of fire are so 
                                              dangerous that the premises or any 
                                              part thereof ought not to be used, 
                                              or ought not to be used for a 
                                              particular process or work, until 
                                              steps have been taken to remedy 
                                              the danger.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (2) If the court is satisfied that 
                                              the complaint is justified in 
                                              respect of any of the above 
                                              matters, the court shall, as the 
                                              case may require, by order&#8212;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (a) prohibit the use of that part 
                                              of the ways, works, machinery or 
                                              plant or, if it is capable of 
                                              repair or alteration, prohibit its 
                                              use until duly repaired or 
                                              altered; or</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (b) require the occupier of the 
                                              premises to take such steps as may 
                                              be specified in the order to 
                                              remedy the danger complained of; 
                                              or</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (c) prohibit the use of the 
                                              premises or part thereof, or its 
                                              use for the particular process or 
                                              work, until such works as may be 
                                              specified in the order have been 
                                              executed to remedy the danger.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (3) Where a complaint is or has 
                                              been made under this section, the 
                                              court may, on application ex parte 
                                              by the Inspector, and on receiving 
                                              evidence that the use of any such 
                                              part of the ways, works machinery 
                                              or plant, or, as the case may be, 
                                              the using of the premises or 
                                              carrying on of any process or work 
                                              or the doing of anything in such a 
                                              manner as aforesaid, involves 
                                              imminent risk of serious bodily 
                                              injury or injury to health, make 
                                              an interim order prohibiting 
                                              either absolutely or subject to 
                                              conditions the use, carrying on or 
                                              doing thereof until the earliest 
                                              opportunity to hear and determine 
                                              the complaint.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (4) Where any order of the court 
                                              made under this section is 
                                              contravened, the occupier of the 
                                              premises shall be guilty of an 
                                              offence and liable on conviction 
                                              to a fine not exceeding two 
                                              hundred thousand cedis or to 
                                              imprisonment not exceeding three 
                                              months, or to both. [As amended by 
                                              the Factories, Offices and Shop 
                                              (Amendment) Law, 1991 (PNDCL 275), 
                                              s.1(d)].</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 53&#8212;Dangerous Premises.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (1) Where on complaint by an 
                                              Inspector a court is satisfied 
                                              that any factory, office or shop 
                                              or any part thereof is in such a 
                                              condition, or is so constructed or 
                                              placed, that any process or work 
                                              carried on or intended to be 
                                              carried on therein cannot be so 
                                              carried on with due regard to the 
                                              safety and health of the persons 
                                              employed, the court may by order 
                                              prohibit the use thereof for the 
                                              purpose of that process or work.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (2) An order made by a court under 
                                              this section may&#8212;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (a) prohibit the carrying on of 
                                              any process or work either 
                                              indefinitely or until such steps 
                                              have been taken as may be 
                                              specified in the order to enable 
                                              the process or work to be carried 
                                              on with due regard to the safety 
                                              and health of the persons 
                                              employed, and</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (b) be revoked or varied on the 
                                              application by way of complaint of 
                                              the occupier or owner of the 
                                              premises:</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Provided that on any such 
                                              application an Inspector shall be 
                                              entitled to be heard.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (3) If any process or work is 
                                              carried on in any factory, office 
                                              or shop or any part thereof in 
                                              contravention of an order of the 
                                              court made under this section, the 
                                              occupier of the premises shall be 
                                              guilty of an offence and liable on 
                                              conviction to a fine not exceeding 
                                              two hundred thousand cedis or to 
                                              imprisonment not exceeding nine 
                                              months, or to both. [As amended by 
                                              the Factories, Offices and Shop 
                                              (Amendment) Law, 1991 (PNDCL 275), 
                                              s.1(e)].</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 54&#8212;Appeal to High Court.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Any person, including an 
                                              Inspector, aggrieved by an order 
                                              made by a court on determining a 
                                              complaint under section 52 or 53 
                                              may appeal therefrom to a judge of 
                                              the High Court.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              PART 8&#8212;SPECIAL APPLICATIONS AND 
                                              EXTENSIONS</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 55&#8212;Part of Building as 
                                              Separate Factory or Shop.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (1) Where part of a building is 
                                              let off as a separate factory or 
                                              shop, the provisions of this Act 
                                              relating to factories or shops 
                                              shall apply to any part of the 
                                              building used for the purposes of 
                                              the factory or shop, but the owner 
                                              of the building shall, instead of 
                                              the occupier, be responsible for 
                                              any contravention of sections 19, 
                                              31 to 34, 44 to 47 and 52 to 54 
                                              insofar as those sections relate 
                                              to matters which are within his 
                                              control or which are his 
                                              responsibility.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (2) For the purposes of this 
                                              section, references in sections 52 
                                              to 54 to the occupier shall be 
                                              taken as references to the 
                                              occupier or to the owner of the 
                                              building, according to which of 
                                              them is responsible in respect of 
                                              the matters complained of.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (3) For the purposes of the 
                                              provisions applied by this 
                                              section, lifting machines attached 
                                              to the outside of the building, 
                                              and chains, ropes and lifting 
                                              tackle used in connection with 
                                              those machines, shall be treated 
                                              as being in the building. </span>
                                              </p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (4) Where in any provision applied 
                                              by this section, or in any 
                                              regulations made thereunder, there 
                                              is contained in respect of a 
                                              factory any reference to the 
                                              general register, that reference 
                                              shall be taken,in relation to 
                                              matters in respect of which the 
                                              owner of the building is 
                                              responsible, as a reference to a 
                                              register to be kept by him, and 
                                              section 69(2) shall apply in 
                                              relation to any such register as 
                                              if the owner were the occupier of 
                                              the factory.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 56&#8212;Docks, Wharves, Quays 
                                              and Warehouses.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (1) Sections 6, 7, 10 to 54 and 60 
                                              to 87 shall apply, so far as 
                                              applicable, to every dock, wharf 
                                              or quay and every warehouse not 
                                              forming part of a factory, in or 
                                              for the purposes of which 
                                              mechanical power is used, as if it 
                                              were a factory and as if the 
                                              person having the actual use or 
                                              occupation of it were the occupier 
                                              of a factory.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (2) The provisions applied by this 
                                              section shall apply to the 
                                              processes of loading, unloading or 
                                              coaling of any ship in any dock or 
                                              harbour, and to all machinery or 
                                              plant used in those processes, as 
                                              if the processes were carried on 
                                              in a factory and the machinery or 
                                              plant were in a factory and the 
                                              person who carries on those 
                                              processes were the occupier of a 
                                              factory:</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Provided that sections 50 and 52 
                                              shall not apply in relation to any 
                                              such machinery or plant which is 
                                              on board a ship and is the 
                                              property of the shipowner.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (3) For the purposes of this 
                                              section, &quot;plant&quot; includes any 
                                              gangway or ladder used by any 
                                              person employed to load, unload or 
                                              coal a ship.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 57&#8212;Building Operations and 
                                              Works of Engineering Construction.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (1) Sections 6 to 8, 10 to 12, 19, 
                                              20, 25 to 31, 33 to 40, 43 to 54 
                                              and 60 to 87 shall apply, so far 
                                              as applicable, to all building 
                                              operations and works of 
                                              engineering construction 
                                              undertaken by way of trade or 
                                              business, or for the purpose of 
                                              any industrial or commercial 
                                              undertaking, and to any line or 
                                              siding which is used in connection 
                                              therewith and for the purposes 
                                              thereof and is not part of a 
                                              railway.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (2) No order made under section 52 
                                              shall operate so as to interfere 
                                              with the design of any works of 
                                              engineering construction or with 
                                              the adoption in the execution of 
                                              those works of any method not 
                                              inconsistent with the safety of 
                                              the works or of the persons 
                                              employed which is prescribed in 
                                              the specification or in any signed 
                                              plans issued, or written 
                                              directions given, by the 
                                              consulting engineer or the 
                                              engineer in charge.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (3) The provisions of this Act in 
                                              their application to building 
                                              operations or to works of 
                                              engineering construction shall 
                                              have effect as if any place where 
                                              such operations or works are 
                                              carried on were a factory and any 
                                              person undertaking any such 
                                              operations or works to which this 
                                              Act applies were the occupier of 
                                              the factory.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (4) Sections 6 and 7 shall be 
                                              deemed to be complied with as 
                                              respects building operations or 
                                              works of engineering construction 
                                              if the register is kept at an 
                                              office of the person undertaking 
                                              the operations or works and copies 
                                              of the abstract and regulations 
                                              are kept posted up at each office, 
                                              yard or shop of the person 
                                              undertaking the operations or 
                                              works at which persons employed by 
                                              him on the operations or works 
                                              attend, and in a position where 
                                              they can be easily read by those 
                                              persons.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (5) Subject to subsection (6), any 
                                              person undertaking any building 
                                              operations or works of engineering 
                                              construction to which this Act 
                                              applies shall, not later than 
                                              seven days after the beginning 
                                              thereof, serve on the Inspector 
                                              for the district a written notice 
                                              stating the name and postal 
                                              address of that person, the place 
                                              and nature of the operations or 
                                              works, whether any mechanical 
                                              power is used and if so its 
                                              nature, and such other particulars 
                                              as may be prescribed.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (6) Subsection (5) shall not apply 
                                              to any operations or works which 
                                              the person undertaking them has 
                                              reasonable grounds to believe will 
                                              be completed in a period of less 
                                              than six weeks, except in such 
                                              cases as the Chief Inspector may 
                                              direct; and where a person 
                                              undertakes any building operations 
                                              or works of engineering 
                                              construction in a place where such 
                                              operations or works are in 
                                              progress, he shall not be required 
                                              to give a notice under that 
                                              subsection if such a notice was 
                                              given in respect of the operations 
                                              or works in progress.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (7) The application of this Act to 
                                              any building operations or works 
                                              of engineering construction by 
                                              virtue of this section shall not 
                                              be excluded by reason of the fact 
                                              that they are undertaken on 
                                              premises to which this Act 
                                              otherwise applies; and nothing in 
                                              this section shall be taken as 
                                              prejudicing the application of 
                                              this Act to those premises apart 
                                              from this section.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (8) The Minister may in respect of 
                                              building operations and works of 
                                              engineering construction by 
                                              legislative instrument make 
                                              regulations&#8212;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (a) adapting or modifying any of 
                                              the provisions of this Act in 
                                              their application to building 
                                              operations and works of 
                                              engineering construction;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (b) prescribing standards for 
                                              scaffolding;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (c) regulating the control of 
                                              lifting machinery and tackle, the 
                                              timbering of excavations, and site 
                                              supervision;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (d) making special provision for 
                                              the health and welfare of workers 
                                              engaged on construction sites; and</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (e) imposing duties on any person 
                                              for any of the above purposes.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 58&#8212;Premises in which Steam 
                                              Boilers are Used.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (1) Sections 10, 11, 30, 33, 38, 
                                              44 to 57, 60 to 76, 78 and 79 
                                              shall apply to any premises (not 
                                              being premises forming part of a 
                                              factory, or premises to which the 
                                              application of this Act is 
                                              otherwise extended by this Part) 
                                              in which a steam boiler is used, 
                                              as if the premises were a factory 
                                              and as if the person having the 
                                              actual use or occupation of the 
                                              premises were the occupier of a 
                                              factory.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (2) The owner of the boiler, 
                                              receiver or container shall, 
                                              instead of the person deemed to be 
                                              the occupier, be responsible for 
                                              any contravention of sections 44, 
                                              45 and 47 as applied by this 
                                              section in so far as they relate 
                                              to matters within his control.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (3) The Minister may by 
                                              legislative instrument make 
                                              regulations modifying the 
                                              provisions of sections 71 (so far 
                                              as applicable) and 72 in their 
                                              application by this section to 
                                              premises in which a steam boiler 
                                              is used.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (4) The occupier of any premises 
                                              (not being premises forming part 
                                              of a factory) in which a steam 
                                              boiler is used shall, within one 
                                              month after the date upon which 
                                              the boiler is first used in those 
                                              premises, send to the Chief 
                                              Inspector a written notice 
                                              containing his name, the address 
                                              and location of the premises, the 
                                              nature of the work carried on in 
                                              the premises, and the following 
                                              particulars in respect of each 
                                              steam boiler in use:&#8212;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (a) the type, description and 
                                              distinctive number;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (b) the country and year of 
                                              manufacture;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (c) the date of the last thorough 
                                              examination and the name of the 
                                              person by whom the examination was 
                                              made;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (d) the maximum permissible 
                                              working pressure in pounds per 
                                              square inch.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 59&#8212;Institutions.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Where, in any premises forming 
                                              part of an institution carried on 
                                              for charitable or reformatory 
                                              purposes, any manual labour is 
                                              exercised in or incidental to the 
                                              making, altering, repairing, 
                                              ornamenting, finishing, filling, 
                                              packing, printing, bookbinding, 
                                              cleaning, washing or adapting for 
                                              sale of articles not intended for 
                                              the use of the institution, but 
                                              the premises do not constitute a 
                                              factory, the provisions of this 
                                              Act other than sections 1 to 5 
                                              shall nevertheless apply to the 
                                              premises as if they were a 
                                              factory.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              PART 9&#8212;OFFENCES AND LEGAL 
                                              PROCEEDINGS</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 60&#8212;Liability for 
                                              Contravention.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (1) Except where otherwise 
                                              expressly provided, the occupier 
                                              shall be responsible for the 
                                              observance of the requirements of 
                                              this Act and of any regulation 
                                              made thereunder.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (2) Any occupier or owner who 
                                              contravenes or fails to comply 
                                              with any requirement of this Act 
                                              or any regulation made thereunder 
                                              for which he is made responsible 
                                              by this Act or any such regulation 
                                              shall, subject as hereinafter 
                                              provided, be guilty of an offence.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (3) Any person who contravenes any 
                                              regulation made under this Act 
                                              which expressly imposes a duty on 
                                              him shall be guilty of an offence 
                                              and the occupier or owner, as the 
                                              case may be, shall not be guilty 
                                              of an offence by reason only of 
                                              that contravention unless it is 
                                              proved that he failed to take all 
                                              reasonable steps to prevent it.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (4) If an occupier avails himself 
                                              of any special exemption allowed 
                                              by or under this Act and fails to 
                                              comply with any of the conditions 
                                              attached to the exemption, he 
                                              shall be deemed to have 
                                              contravened this Act.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (5) Where an offence under this 
                                              Act committed by a corporate body 
                                              is proved to have been committed 
                                              with the consent or connivance of, 
                                              or to have been facilitated by any 
                                              neglect on the part of, any 
                                              officer of that corporate body, 
                                              he, as well as that corporate 
                                              body, shall be deemed to be guilty 
                                              of the offence and shall be liable 
                                              to be proceeded against and 
                                              punished accordingly.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 61&#8212;Liability of Actual 
                                              Offender.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (1) Where an act or default for 
                                              which an occupier or owner is 
                                              liable under this Act is in fact 
                                              the act or default of some agent, 
                                              servant, worker or other person, 
                                              that agent, servant, worker or 
                                              other person shall be guilty of an 
                                              offence and liable to the same 
                                              punishment as if he were the 
                                              occupier or owner, as the case may 
                                              be.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (2) Where an occupier or owner is 
                                              charged with an offence under this 
                                              Act, it shall be a defence for him 
                                              to prove to the satisfaction of 
                                              the court&#8212;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (a) that he used all due diligence 
                                              to enforce the execution of this 
                                              Act and of any relevant regulation 
                                              made thereunder; and</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (b) that another person has 
                                              committed the offence in question 
                                              without his consent, connivance or 
                                              wilful default.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (3) Where an occupier or owner is 
                                              acquitted in pursuance of 
                                              subsection (2), the court may 
                                              direct that proceedings be taken 
                                              against the person who appears to 
                                              be the actual offender.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (4) When it is made to appear to 
                                              the satisfaction of an Inspector 
                                              at the time of discovering an 
                                              offence&#8212;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (a) that the occupier or owner, as 
                                              the case may be, has used all due 
                                              diligence to enforce the execution 
                                              of this Act and of any relevant 
                                              regulation made thereunder; and</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (b) by what person the offence has 
                                              been committed; and</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (c) that it has been committed 
                                              without the consent, connivance or 
                                              wilful default of the occupier or 
                                              owner and in contravention of his 
                                              orders,</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              the Inspector shall proceed 
                                              against the person whom he 
                                              believes to be the actual offender 
                                              without first proceeding against 
                                              the occupier or owner.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 62&#8212;Liability of Owner of 
                                              Machine.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Where in any factory, office or 
                                              shop the owner or hirer of a 
                                              machine or implement moved by 
                                              mechanical power is some person 
                                              other than the occupier of the 
                                              premises, the owner or hirer 
                                              shall, so far as respects any 
                                              offence under this Act committed 
                                              in relation to a person who is 
                                              employed in or about or in 
                                              connection with that machine or 
                                              implement and is in the employment 
                                              or pay of the owner or hirer, be 
                                              deemed to be the occupier of the 
                                              factory.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 63&#8212;General Penalty.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Subject as hereinafter provided, 
                                              any person guilty of an offence 
                                              for which no express punishment is 
                                              provided by this Act or 
                                              regulations made thereunder shall 
                                              be liable on conviction to a fine 
                                              not exceeding one hundred thousand 
                                              cedis or to imprisonment not 
                                              exceeding six months, or to both. 
                                              [As amended by the Factories, 
                                              Offices and Shops (Amendment) Law, 
                                              1991 (PNDCL 275), s.1(f)].</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 64&#8212;Offences continued 
                                              after Conviction.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Where an offence of which a person 
                                              has been convicted is continued 
                                              after the conviction, that person 
                                              shall, subject to section 65, be 
                                              guilty of a further offence and 
                                              liable on conviction to a fine not 
                                              exceeding five thousand cedis or 
                                              to imprisonment not exceeding 
                                              seven days, or to both, for each 
                                              day on which the offence was so 
                                              continued. [As amended by the 
                                              Factories, Offices and Shops 
                                              (Amendment) Law, 1991 (PNDCL 275), 
                                              s.1(g)].</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 65&#8212;Court Order to Remedy 
                                              Contravention.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (1) Where an occupier or owner is 
                                              convicted of an offence under this 
                                              Act, the court may, in addition to 
                                              or instead of imposing any 
                                              punishment, order him within a 
                                              specified time to take such steps 
                                              as may be specified in the order 
                                              to remedy the contravention, and 
                                              may on application enlarge the 
                                              time so specified.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (2) Where such an order is made, 
                                              the occupier or owner shall not be 
                                              liable for the continued 
                                              contravention during the time 
                                              allowed by the court, but if, 
                                              after the expiration of that time 
                                              as originally specified or 
                                              subsequently enlarged, the order 
                                              is not complied with, the occupier 
                                              or owner, as the case may be, 
                                              shall be liable to a fine not 
                                              exceeding ten thousand cedis for 
                                              each day on which the 
                                              non-compliance continues. [As 
                                              amended by Factories, Offices and 
                                              Shops (Amendment) Law, 1991 (PNDCL 
                                              275), s.1(h)].</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 66&#8212;Penalty for Death or 
                                              Injury.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (1) If any person is killed or 
                                              dies or suffers bodily injury in 
                                              consequence of an occupier or 
                                              owner having contravened any 
                                              provision of this Act or any 
                                              regulation made thereunder, the 
                                              occupier or owner shall be guilty 
                                              of an offence and liable on 
                                              conviction to a fine not exceeding 
                                              two hundred thousand cedis or to 
                                              imprisonment not exceeding six 
                                              months, or to both. [As amended by 
                                              the Factories, Offices and Shops 
                                              (Amendment) Law, 1991 (PNDCL 275), 
                                              s.1(i)].</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (2) In the case of bodily injury, 
                                              the occupier or owner shall not be 
                                              liable under this section unless 
                                              the injury was caused directly by 
                                              the contravention.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (3) The occupier or owner shall 
                                              not be liable under this section 
                                              if a charge against him under this 
                                              Act in respect of the act or 
                                              default by which the death or 
                                              injury was caused has been heard 
                                              and dismissed before the death or 
                                              injury occurred.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 67&#8212;Forgery, Uttering and 
                                              Personation.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              &nbsp;Any person who&#8212;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (a) forges or counterfeits any 
                                              certificate required by or for the 
                                              purposes of this Act or any 
                                              regulation made thereunder; or</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (b) gives or signs any such 
                                              certificate knowing it to be false 
                                              in any material particular; or</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (c) knowingly utters or makes use 
                                              of any such certificate so forged, 
                                              counterfeited or false as 
                                              aforesaid; or</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (d) knowingly utters or makes use 
                                              of, as applying to any person, any 
                                              such certificate which does not so 
                                              apply; or</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (e) personates any person named in 
                                              any such certificate; or</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (f) falsely pretends to be an 
                                              Inspector; or</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (g) wilfully connives at any such 
                                              forging, counterfeiting, giving, 
                                              signing, uttering, making use, 
                                              personating or pretending as 
                                              aforesaid; or</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (h) wilfully makes a false entry 
                                              in any register, notice, 
                                              certificate or document required 
                                              by or for the purposes of this Act 
                                              or any regulation made thereunder 
                                              to be kept or served or sent; or</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">(i) 
                                              wilfully makes or signs a false 
                                              declaration required by or for the 
                                              purposes of this Act or any 
                                              regulation made thereunder; or</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (j)&nbsp; knowingly makes use of any 
                                              such false entry or declaration as 
                                              aforesaid; </span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              shall be guilty of an offence and 
                                              liable on conviction to a fine not 
                                              exceeding two hundred thousand 
                                              cedis or to imprisonment not 
                                              exceeding six months, or to both. 
                                              [As amended by the Factories, 
                                              Offices and Shops (Amendment) Law, 
                                              1991 (PNDCL 275), s.1(j)].</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 68&#8212;Prosecution of 
                                              Offences.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (1) All offences under this Act 
                                              shall be prosecuted in a District 
                                              Court.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (2) In any proceedings under this 
                                              Act it shall be sufficient in the 
                                              charge or information to allege 
                                              that the factory, office or shop 
                                              is a factory, office or shop 
                                              within the&nbsp; meaning of this Act 
                                              and to state the name of the 
                                              ostensible occupier of the 
                                              factory, office or shop or, where 
                                              the occupier is a&nbsp; firm, the title 
                                              of the firm; and the burden of 
                                              proving that the premises are not 
                                              a factory, office or shop, or that 
                                              the occupier specified in the 
                                              charge or information is not the 
                                              occupier of the factory, office or 
                                              shop, shall lie upon the person 
                                              alleging such fact.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (3) Where any offence is committed 
                                              under this Act by reason of a 
                                              failure to make an examination, 
                                              enter a report or do any other 
                                              thing, at or within a time 
                                              specified by this Act or any 
                                              regulation made thereunder, the 
                                              offence shall be deemed to 
                                              continue until the examination is 
                                              made or the report entered or the 
                                              other thing done, as the case may 
                                              be.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 69&#8212;Special Provisions as 
                                              to Evidence.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (1) If a person is found in a 
                                              factory at any time at which work 
                                              is going on or the machinery is in 
                                              motion, except during the 
                                              intervals for meals or rest, he 
                                              shall, until the contrary is 
                                              proved, be deemed for the purposes 
                                              of this Act to have been then 
                                              employed in the factory:</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Provided that this subsection 
                                              shall not apply to a factory in 
                                              which the only persons employed 
                                              are members of the same family 
                                              living there.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (2) Where any entry is required by 
                                              this Act or by any regulation made 
                                              thereunder to be made in the 
                                              general register or in any other 
                                              register or record, the entry made 
                                              by the occupier of a factory or on 
                                              his behalf shall, as against him, 
                                              be admissible as evidence of the 
                                              facts stated therein, and the fact 
                                              that any entry so required with 
                                              respect to the observance of any 
                                              provision of this Act or of any 
                                              regulation made thereunder has not 
                                              been made, shall be admissible as 
                                              evidence that that provision has 
                                              not been observed.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 70&#8212;Service of Documents, 
                                              Etc.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (1) Any document, including any 
                                              summons or order, required or 
                                              authorised to be served under this 
                                              Act may be served&#8212;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (a) on any person by delivering it 
                                              to him, or by leaving it at, or 
                                              sending it by post to, his 
                                              residence or place of business;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (b) on any firm by delivering it 
                                              to any partner of the firm or by 
                                              leaving it at, or sending it by 
                                              post to, the office of the firm;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (c)&nbsp; on the owner or occupier of a 
                                              factory, office or shop in any 
                                              such manner as aforesaid, or by 
                                              delivering it, or a true copy 
                                              thereof, to any responsible person 
                                              over the apparent age of eighteen 
                                              years at the factory, office or 
                                              shop.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (2) Any such document may be 
                                              addressed, for the purpose or 
                                              service on an occupier, to &quot;the 
                                              occupier&quot;, at the proper postal 
                                              address of the premises, without 
                                              further name or description.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (3) This section shall apply, with 
                                              the necessary modifications, to 
                                              documents required or authorised 
                                              under this Act to be sent to any 
                                              person, firm, owner or occupier, 
                                              and to the sending, addressing and 
                                              delivery of such documents.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 71&#8212;Power to Modify 
                                              Agreement.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (1) If by reason of an agreement 
                                              between the owner and the occupier 
                                              of premises the whole or any part 
                                              of which has been let as a factory 
                                              the said owner or occupier is 
                                              prevented from carrying out any 
                                              structural or other alterations in 
                                              the premises which are necessary 
                                              to enable him to comply with this 
                                              Act or any regulation made 
                                              thereunder, or in order to conform 
                                              with any standard or requirement 
                                              imposed by or under this Act, he 
                                              may apply to the High Court for 
                                              the terms of the agreement to be 
                                              set aside or modified</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              2) The court, after hearing the 
                                              parties and any witnesses whom it 
                                              may wish to call, may make an 
                                              order setting aside or modifying 
                                              the terms of the agreement as it 
                                              considers just and equitable in 
                                              the circumstances.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 72&#8212;Power to Apportion 
                                              Expenses.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (1) Where in any premises, the 
                                              whole or any part of which has 
                                              been let as a factory, any 
                                              structural or other alterations 
                                              are required in order to comply 
                                              with the provisions of this Act or 
                                              of any regulation made thereunder, 
                                              or in order to conform with any 
                                              standard or requirement imposed by 
                                              or under this Act, and the owner 
                                              or occupier, as the case may be, 
                                              alleges that the whole or part of 
                                              the expenses of the alterations 
                                              ought to be borne by the occupier 
                                              or owner, the owner or occupier 
                                              may apply to the High Court for 
                                              the expenses of the alterations to 
                                              be apportioned between them.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (2) The court, after hearing the 
                                              parties and any witnesses whom it 
                                              may wish to call, may make an 
                                              order concerning the expenses or 
                                              their apportionment as it 
                                              considers just and equitable in 
                                              the circumstances, regard being 
                                              had to the terms of any contract 
                                              between the parties, or, in the 
                                              alternative, the court may, at the 
                                              request of the owner or occupier, 
                                              determine the lease.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 73&#8212;Inspector may Conduct 
                                              Court Proceedings.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (1) An Inspector may, although he 
                                              is not an advocate, prosecute, 
                                              conduct or defend before a court 
                                              any charge, information, complaint 
                                              or other proceedings arising under 
                                              this Act, or in the discharge of 
                                              his duty as an Inspector.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (2) It shall not be an objection 
                                              to the competency of an Inspector 
                                              to give evidence as a witness in 
                                              any prosecution for an offence 
                                              against this Act that the 
                                              prosecution is brought at his 
                                              instance.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (3) Notwithstanding anything to 
                                              the contrary in this Act, a 
                                              prosecuting Inspector shall not be 
                                              competent to give evidence in a 
                                              case which he is prosecuting.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              PART 10&#8212;ADMINISTRATION</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 74&#8212;Appointment of 
                                              Inspectors.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (1) The Minister may appoint a 
                                              Chief Inspector and such other 
                                              Inspectors and officers as he 
                                              thinks necessary to carry out the 
                                              provisions of this Act.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (2) Notice of the appointment of 
                                              every Inspector shall be published 
                                              in the Gazette.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (3) Every Inspector shall be given 
                                              a certificate of his appointment 
                                              issued by the Minister, and when 
                                              visiting any premises to which 
                                              this Act applies shall, if so 
                                              required, produce the certificate 
                                              to the occupier or other person 
                                              holding a responsible position of 
                                              management at the premises.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (4) A person who is the occupier 
                                              of a factory, or is directly 
                                              interested therein or in any 
                                              process or business carried on 
                                              therein or in a patent connected 
                                              therewith, or is employed in or 
                                              about a factory, shall not act as 
                                              an Inspector.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (5) No Inspector, except insofar 
                                              as is necessary for the 
                                              prosecution of an offence under 
                                              this Act, shall publish or 
                                              disclose to any person the details 
                                              of any manufacturing or commercial 
                                              or working process which may come 
                                              to his knowledge in the course of 
                                              his duties.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (6) A person who contravenes 
                                              subsection (4) or (5) shall be 
                                              guilty of an offence.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 75&#8212;Powers of Inspectors.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (1) An Inspector shall, for the 
                                              implementation of this Act, have 
                                              power&#8212;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (a) to enter, inspect and examine, 
                                              by day or by night, a factory and 
                                              every part thereof, when he has 
                                              reasonable cause to believe that 
                                              any person is employed therein, 
                                              and to enter, inspect and examine 
                                              by day any place which he has 
                                              reasonable cause to believe, to be 
                                              a factory, office or shop, and any 
                                              part of any building of which a 
                                              factory, office or shop forms part 
                                              and in which he has reasonable 
                                              cause to believe that explosive or 
                                              highly inflammable materials are 
                                              stored or used;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (b) to take with him a police 
                                              officer if he has reasonable cause 
                                              to expect obstruction in the 
                                              execution of his duty;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (c) to require the production of 
                                              the registers, certificates, 
                                              notices and documents kept in 
                                              pursuance of this Act and to 
                                              inspect, examine and copy any of 
                                              them;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (d) to make or cause to be made 
                                              such examination and inquiry as 
                                              may be necessary to ascertain 
                                              whether the provisions of this Act 
                                              and of the enactments in force 
                                              relating to public health are 
                                              complied with so far as respects a 
                                              factory, office or shop and any 
                                              persons employed therein;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (e) to require any person who he 
                                              finds in a factory, office or shop 
                                              to give such information as it is 
                                              in his power to give as to who is 
                                              the occupier of the factory, 
                                              office or shop;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (f) to examine or cause to be 
                                              examined any person, either alone 
                                              or in the presence of any other 
                                              person, as he thinks fit, with 
                                              respect to matters under this Act;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (g) in the case of an Inspector 
                                              who is a registered medical 
                                              practitioner, to carry out such 
                                              medical examinations as may be 
                                              necessary for the purposes of his 
                                              duties under this Act; and</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (h) to exercise such other powers 
                                              as may be necessary for carrying 
                                              this Act into effect.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (2) The occupier of every factory, 
                                              office or shop, his agents and 
                                              servants, shall provide the means 
                                              required by an Inspector as 
                                              necessary for an entry, 
                                              inspection, examination, inquiry, 
                                              the taking of samples, or 
                                              otherwise for the exercise of his 
                                              powers under this Act in relation 
                                              to that factory, office or shop.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 76&#8212;Obstruction of 
                                              Inspector.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (1) Any person who obstructs an 
                                              Inspector in the execution of his 
                                              powers or duties under this Act 
                                              shall be guilty of an offence and 
                                              liable on conviction to a fine not 
                                              exceeding one hundred thousand 
                                              cedis, or to imprisonment not 
                                              exceeding one month, or to both; 
                                              and where an Inspector is so 
                                              obstructed in a factory or shop, 
                                              the occupier of that factory or 
                                              shop shall be guilty of an 
                                              offence. [As amended by the 
                                              Factories, Offices and Shops 
                                              (Amendment) Law, 1991 (PNDCL 275), 
                                              s.1(k)].</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (2) Any person who&#8212;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (a) wilfully delays an Inspector 
                                              in the exercise of his powers; or</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (b) fails to comply with the 
                                              requisition of an Inspector in 
                                              pursuance of section 75; or</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (c) fails to produce any document 
                                              which he is required by or in 
                                              pursuance of this Act to produce; 
                                              or</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (d) wilfully withholds any 
                                              information as to who is the 
                                              occupier of any factory, office or 
                                              shop; or</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (e) conceals or prevents a person 
                                              from appearing before or being 
                                              examined by an Inspector,</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              shall be deemed to obstruct an 
                                              Inspector in the execution of his 
                                              duties under this Act.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 77&#8212;Power to take Samples.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (1) An Inspector may at any time 
                                              after informing the occupier, or 
                                              if the occupier is not readily 
                                              available, a foreman or other 
                                              responsible person in a factory, 
                                              office or shop, take for analysis 
                                              sufficient samples of any 
                                              substance used or intended to be 
                                              used in a factory, office or shop 
                                              being a substance in respect of 
                                              which he suspects a contravention 
                                              of any regulation made under this 
                                              Act, or which he thinks may prove 
                                              on analysis to be likely to cause 
                                              bodily injury to the persons 
                                              employed.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (2) The occupier, foreman or other 
                                              responsible person aforesaid may, 
                                              at the time when a sample is taken 
                                              under this section, and on 
                                              providing the necessary 
                                              appliances, require the Inspector 
                                              to divide the sample into three 
                                              parts, to mark and seal or fasten 
                                              up each part in such a manner as 
                                              its nature permits, and&#8212;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (a) to deliver one part to the 
                                              occupier, foreman or other 
                                              responsible person aforesaid;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (b) to retain one part for future 
                                              comparison; and</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (c) to submit one part to the 
                                              analyst,</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              and any analysis under this 
                                              section shall, if so required, be 
                                              carried out by the Government 
                                              Chemist.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (3) A certificate purporting to be 
                                              a certificate by the Government 
                                              Chemist as to the result of an 
                                              analysis of a sample under this 
                                              section shall in any proceedings 
                                              under this Act be admissible as 
                                              evidence of the matters stated 
                                              therein, but either party may 
                                              require the person by whom the 
                                              analysis was made to be called as 
                                              a witness</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (4) Any person who, except insofar 
                                              as is necessary for the 
                                              prosecution of an offence under 
                                              this Act, publishes or discloses 
                                              to any person the results of an 
                                              analysis made under this section 
                                              shall be guilty of an offence and 
                                              liable on conviction to a fine not 
                                              exceeding two hundred thousand 
                                              cedis or to imprisonment not 
                                              exceeding twelve months, or to 
                                              both. [As amended by the 
                                              Factories, Offices and Shops 
                                              (Amendment) Law, 1991 (PNDCL 275), 
                                              s.1(l)].</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              PART 11&#8212;GENERAL</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 78&#8212;Duties of Persons 
                                              Employed.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (1) No person employed in any 
                                              premises to which any provision of 
                                              this Act applies shall wilfully 
                                              interfere with or misuse any 
                                              means, appliance, convenience or 
                                              other thing provided in pursuance 
                                              of this Act for securing the 
                                              health, safety or welfare of the 
                                              persons therein.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (2) No person employed in any 
                                              premises to which any provision of 
                                              this Act applies shall wilfully 
                                              and without reasonable cause do 
                                              anything likely to endanger 
                                              himself or any other person.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (3) Where any means or appliance 
                                              for securing health or safety is 
                                              provided for the use of any person 
                                              under this Act, he shall use that 
                                              means or appliance.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (4) Any employed person who 
                                              contravenes any provision of this 
                                              section shall be guilty of an 
                                              offence and liable on conviction 
                                              to a fine not exceeding fifty 
                                              thousand cedis or to imprisonment 
                                              not exceeding three months, or to 
                                              both. [As amended by the 
                                              Factories, Offices and Shops 
                                              (Amendment) Law, 1991 (PNDCL 275), 
                                              s.1(m)].</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 79&#8212;Notices and 
                                              Certificates.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (1) Any notice or certificate 
                                              issued by the Chief Inspector 
                                              under this Act may be issued for a 
                                              limited time or without limit of 
                                              time and may be varied or revoked 
                                              by the Chief Inspector</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (2) This section shall not apply 
                                              in respect of a Certificate of 
                                              Registration of a factory.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 80&#8212;Deductions from Wages 
                                              Prohibited.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              The occupier of a factory, office 
                                              or shop shall not, in respect of 
                                              anything to be done or provided by 
                                              him in pursuance of this Act, make 
                                              any deduction from the sum 
                                              contracted to be paid by him to 
                                              any person employed, or receive, 
                                              or allow any person in his 
                                              employment to receive, any payment 
                                              from any such person.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 81&#8212;Exemption.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              The Minister may by legislative 
                                              instrument exempt from the 
                                              application of all or any of the 
                                              requirements of this Act any 
                                              premises or class or part of 
                                              premises being a factory, office 
                                              or shop, where in his opinion it 
                                              would by reason of special 
                                              circumstances be unreasonable to 
                                              require compliance with such 
                                              requirements.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 82&#8212;Application.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (1) The provisions of this Act 
                                              shall, except where otherwise 
                                              expressly provided, apply to all 
                                              factories, offices and shops as 
                                              defined by this Act.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (2) This Act shall apply to 
                                              factories, offices and shops 
                                              belonging to or in the occupation 
                                              of the Government.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 83&#8212;Definition of Factory.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (1) In this Act, &quot;factory&quot; means 
                                              any premises in which, or within 
                                              the close or curtilage of which, 
                                              any person is employed in manual 
                                              labour in any process for or 
                                              incidental to any one or more of 
                                              the following types of work which 
                                              are carried on by way of trade or 
                                              for purposes of gain, and to or 
                                              over which premises the employer 
                                              of the persons employed therein 
                                              has the right of access or control 
                                              namely,&#8212;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (a) the making of any article or 
                                              part of any article;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (b) the altering, repairing, 
                                              ornamenting, finishing, filling, 
                                              packing, printing, bookbinding, 
                                              cleaning, washing, breaking up or 
                                              demolition of any article;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (c) the adapting for storage or 
                                              sale of any article;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (d)&nbsp; the slaughtering of cattle, 
                                              sheep, swine, goats, hens, guinea 
                                              fowl and turkeys.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (2) In this Act, &quot;factory&quot; also 
                                              means&#8212;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (a) any yard or dry dock 
                                              (including the precincts thereof) 
                                              in which ships or vessels are 
                                              constructed, reconstructed, 
                                              repaired, refitted, finished or 
                                              broken up;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (b) any premises in which the 
                                              construction, reconstruction or 
                                              repair of locomotives, vehicles or 
                                              plant for use for transport 
                                              purposes is carried on as 
                                              ancillary to a transport 
                                              undertaking, or other industrial 
                                              or commercial undertaking, not 
                                              being premises used to house 
                                              locomotives or vehicles where only 
                                              cleaning, washing, running repairs 
                                              or minor adjustments are carried 
                                              out;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (c) any premises in which 
                                              mechanical power is used in 
                                              connection with the making, repair 
                                              or storage of any article 
                                              incidentally to any business 
                                              carried on by way of trade or for 
                                              purposes of gain and in which any 
                                              person is employed in manual 
                                              labour;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (d) any premises in which articles 
                                              are made or prepared incidentally 
                                              to the carrying on of building 
                                              operations or works of engineering 
                                              construction and in which any 
                                              person is employed in manual 
                                              labour, not being premises in 
                                              which such operations or works are 
                                              being carried on;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (e) any premises in which any 
                                              person is regularly employed in 
                                              manual labour in or in connection 
                                              with the generating of electrical 
                                              energy for supply by way of trade, 
                                              or for supply for the purposes of 
                                              any industrial or commercial 
                                              undertaking or of any public 
                                              building or public institution, or 
                                              for supply to streets or other 
                                              public places;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (f) any premises in which 
                                              mechanical power is used for or in 
                                              connection with a water supply, 
                                              being premises in which any person 
                                              is regularly employed in manual 
                                              labour;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (g) any premises in which the 
                                              business of sorting any articles 
                                              is carried on as preliminary to 
                                              the work carried on in any factory 
                                              or incidentally to the purposes of 
                                              any factory, and in which any 
                                              person is employed in manual 
                                              labour;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (h) any laundry carried on as 
                                              ancillary to another business, or 
                                              incidentally to the purposes of 
                                              any public institution.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (3) Any line or siding (not being 
                                              part of a railway) which is used 
                                              in connection with any of the 
                                              purposes of a factory, shall be 
                                              deemed to be the part of the 
                                              factory; and if any such line or 
                                              siding is used in connection with 
                                              more than one factory belonging to 
                                              separate occupiers, it shall be 
                                              deemed to be a separate factory, 
                                              and the provisions of this Act 
                                              shall apply as if such different 
                                              occupiers were jointly the 
                                              occupiers of the line or siding so 
                                              deemed to be a factory.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (4) A part of a factory may, with 
                                              the approval in writing of the 
                                              Chief Inspector, be taken to be a 
                                              separate factory, and two or more 
                                              factories may, with the like 
                                              approval, be taken to be a single 
                                              factory.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (5) Any workplace in which, with 
                                              the permission of or under 
                                              agreement with the owner or 
                                              occupier, two or more persons 
                                              carry on any work which would 
                                              constitute the workplace a factory 
                                              if the persons therein were in the 
                                              employment of the owner or 
                                              occupier, shall be deemed to be a 
                                              factory for the purposes of this 
                                              Act, and, in the case of any such 
                                              workplace, the provisions of this 
                                              Act shall apply as if the owner or 
                                              occupier of the workplace were the 
                                              occupier of the factory and the 
                                              persons working therein were 
                                              persons employed in the factory.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (6) Where a place situated within 
                                              the close, curtilage or precincts 
                                              forming a factory is solely used 
                                              for some process other than a 
                                              process for and incidental to the 
                                              main purposes of the factory, that 
                                              place shall not be deemed to form 
                                              part of the factory for the 
                                              purposes of this Act, but shall, 
                                              if otherwise it would be a 
                                              factory, be deemed to be a 
                                              separate factory.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (7) Premises shall not be excluded 
                                              from the definition of a factory 
                                              by reason only that they are open 
                                              air premises.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (8) Premises belonging to or in 
                                              the occupation of the Government 
                                              or any local authority or 
                                              corporation constituted under any 
                                              enactment shall not be excluded 
                                              from the definition of a factory 
                                              by reason only that the work 
                                              carried on there is not carried 
                                              on&nbsp; by way of trade or for 
                                              purposes of gain.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (9) Where the Minister by 
                                              executive instrument so directs as 
                                              respects all or any purposes of 
                                              this Act, and subject to such 
                                              conditions as he may think fit to 
                                              require, different branches or 
                                              departments of work carried on in 
                                              the same factory shall be deemed 
                                              to be different factories.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (10) Notwithstanding the foregoing 
                                              provisions of this section, the 
                                              definition of a factory shall not 
                                              apply&#8212;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (a) to any building operations 
                                              undertaken below ground in a mine;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (b) to any works of engineering 
                                              construction undertaken at a mine, 
                                              whether above or below ground, or 
                                              at a quarry;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (c) to premises in or adjacent to 
                                              and belonging to a mine, being 
                                              premises in which the only 
                                              activity carried on is ancillary 
                                              to the getting, dressing or 
                                              preparation for sale of minerals.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 84&#8212;Definition of an Office</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial">.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (1) In this Act &quot;office&quot; means any 
                                              room of a building of which the 
                                              substantial use is for clerical 
                                              work including book-keeping, 
                                              filing, typing, duplicating, 
                                              machine calculating, drawing, the 
                                              editorial preparation of matter 
                                              for publication in print, the 
                                              sorting and carrying of papers, 
                                              telephone operating, and the 
                                              handling of money, except any 
                                              rooms in premises of which the 
                                              substantial use is private 
                                              residence or for private domestic 
                                              purposes.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (2) In this Act, &quot;office&quot; also 
                                              includes establishments, 
                                              institutions and administrative 
                                              services in which the workers are 
                                              mainly engaged in office work.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 85&#8212;Definition of a Shop.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              In this Act, &quot;shop&quot; means&#8212;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (a) a shop;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (b) a building or part of a 
                                              building of which the substantial 
                                              use is the carrying on there of 
                                              retail trade or business 
                                              (including the sale to members of 
                                              the public of food or drink for 
                                              immediate consumption, retail 
                                              sales by auction and the business 
                                              of lending books or periodicals 
                                              for purposes of gain);</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (c) a building or part of a 
                                              building occupied by a wholesale 
                                              dealer or merchant where goods are 
                                              kept for wholesale distribution or 
                                              sale;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (d) a building or part of a 
                                              building to which members of the 
                                              public are invited to resort for 
                                              the purpose of delivering goods 
                                              for repair, renovation, cleaning 
                                              or other treatment, or of 
                                              themselves there carrying out 
                                              repairs, renovation, cleaning or 
                                              other treatment of goods.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 86&#8212;Interpretation.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (1) In this Act, unless the 
                                              context otherwise requires&#8212;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              &quot;article&quot; includes any solid, 
                                              liquid or gas, or any combination 
                                              thereof;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              &quot;bodily injury&quot; includes injury to 
                                              health;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              &quot;building operation&quot; means the 
                                              construction, structural 
                                              alteration, repair or maintenance 
                                              of a building (including 
                                              re-pointing, re-decoration and 
                                              external cleaning of the 
                                              structure), the demolition of a 
                                              building, and the preparation for, 
                                              and laying the foundation of, an 
                                              intended building, but does not 
                                              include any operation which is a 
                                              work of engineering construction 
                                              within the meaning of this Act;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              &quot;class&quot; of factories, offices or 
                                              shops includes a group of 
                                              factories, offices or shops 
                                              described by reference to 
                                              locality;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              &quot;driving-belt&quot; includes any 
                                              driving strap or rope;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              &quot;fumes&quot; include gas or vapour;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              &quot;lifting machine&quot; means a crane, 
                                              crab, winch, teagle, pulley, 
                                              block, gin wheel, transporter or 
                                              runway;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              &quot;lifting tackle&quot; means chain 
                                              slings,&nbsp; ropeslings, rings, hooks, 
                                              shackles and swivels;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              &quot;local authority&quot; means a council&nbsp; 
                                              established under any enactment 
                                              for the time&nbsp; being in force 
                                              relating to local government;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              &quot;machinery&quot;&nbsp; means every 
                                              mechanical contrivance whether 
                                              operated by hand or by automatic 
                                              power, and includes driving belts, 
                                              flywheels, prime movers, 
                                              transmission machinery, water 
                                              wheels, water turbines, electric 
                                              generators motor or rotary 
                                              converters, and shaftings;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              &quot;maintained&quot; means maintained in 
                                              an efficient state, in efficient 
                                              working order, and in good repair;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              &quot;mine&quot; includes any place, 
                                              excavation, or working whereon, 
                                              wherein, or whereby any operation 
                                              in connection with mining is 
                                              carried&nbsp; on;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              &quot;Minister&quot; means the Minister 
                                              responsible for&nbsp; Labour;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              &quot;occupier&quot; means the person who 
                                              runs the factory, office, shop or 
                                              other premises in question, and 
                                              who regulates and controls the 
                                              work that is done there;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              &quot;offence&quot; means an offence under 
                                              this Act;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              &quot;owner&quot; means the person for the 
                                              time being receiving the rents or 
                                              profits of the premises in 
                                              connection with which the word is 
                                              used, whether on his own account 
                                              or as agent or trustee for any 
                                              other person, or who would so 
                                              receive the same if the premises 
                                              were leased;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              &quot;prescribed&quot; means prescribed by 
                                              the Minister under section 8(2);</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              &quot;prime mover&quot; means every engine, 
                                              motor or other appliance which 
                                              provides mechanical energy derived 
                                              from steam water, wind, 
                                              electricity, the combustion of 
                                              fuel or other source;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              &quot;process&quot; includes the use of any 
                                              locomotive;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              &quot;railway&quot; means any railway used 
                                              for the purposes of public 
                                              traffic, whether passenger, goods 
                                              or other traffic, and includes any 
                                              works used in connection with and 
                                              for the purposes of the railway;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              &quot;sanitary convenience&quot; includes 
                                              urinals, waterclosets, earth 
                                              closets, privies, ashpits, and any 
                                              similar conveniences;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              &quot;steam boiler&quot; means any closed 
                                              vessel in which for any purposes 
                                              steam is generated under pressure 
                                              greater than atmospheric pressure, 
                                              and includes any economiser used 
                                              to heat water being fed to any 
                                              such vessel, and any superheater 
                                              used for heating steam;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              &quot;transmission machinery&quot; means 
                                              every shaft, wheel, drum, pulley, 
                                              system of fast and loose pulleys, 
                                              coupling, clutch, driving-belt or 
                                              other device by which the motion 
                                              of a prime mover is transmitted to 
                                              or received by any machine or 
                                              appliance;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              &quot;work of engineering construction&quot; 
                                              means the construction of any 
                                              road, airfield, sea defence works 
                                              or river works, railway line or 
                                              siding, and the construction, 
                                              structural alteration or repair 
                                              (including re-pointing and 
                                              re-painting) or the demolition of 
                                              any dock, habour, inland, 
                                              navigation, tunnel, bridge, 
                                              viaduct, waterworks, reservoir, 
                                              pipeline, aqueduct, sewer, sewage 
                                              works, or gas holder, and shall 
                                              include such other works as may be 
                                              prescribed;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              &quot;young person&quot; means a person 
                                              under the age of eighteen years.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (2) For the purposes of this Act 
                                              and regulations made thereunder, 
                                              machinery or plant shall be deemed 
                                              to have been constructed or 
                                              reconstructed before the 
                                              commencement of this Act or 
                                              regulations made thereunder, and a 
                                              factory or building shall be 
                                              deemed to have been constructed, 
                                              reconstructed, extended, added to 
                                              or converted for use as a factory 
                                              before the commencement of this 
                                              Act or regulations made thereunder, 
                                              if the construction, 
                                              reconstruction, extension, 
                                              addition or conversion was begun 
                                              before the commencement of this 
                                              Act or regulations made thereunder.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (3) For the purposes of this Act a 
                                              factory shall not be deemed to be 
                                              a factory in which mechanical 
                                              power is used by reason only that 
                                              mechanical power is used for the 
                                              purpose of heating, ventilating or 
                                              lighting the workrooms or other 
                                              parts of the factory.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (4) For the purposes of this Act 
                                              an apprentice shall be deemed to 
                                              be a person employed.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 87&#8212;Repeal and Savings.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (1) The Factories Ordinance, 1952 
                                              (No. 33) is hereby repealed.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (2) Notwithstanding the repeal of 
                                              the Factories Ordinance, the 
                                              following statutory instruments 
                                              shall continue in force as if made 
                                              under the corresponding provisions 
                                              of this Act, until revoked, 
                                              altered or otherwise modified:&#8212;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              The Factories (Woodworking) 
                                              Regulations, 1959 (L.N. 301).</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              The Food Factories (Welfare) 
                                              Regulations, 1959 (L.N. 302).</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              The Food Factories (Welfare) 
                                              Regulations, 1959 (Abstract of 
                                              Regulations) Order, 1960 (L.I. 
                                              33).</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              The Factories (Woodworking) 
                                              Regulations, 1959 (Abstract of 
                                              Regulations) Order, 1960 (L.I. 
                                              34).</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              The Factories (Docks Safety) 
                                              Regulations, 1960 (L.I. 86).</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 88&#8212;Commencement.</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              This Act shall come into force on 
                                              the 1st day of April, 1970.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Section 88A &#8212; Commencement</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              This law shall be deemed to have 
                                              come into force on the 21st April, 
                                              1983. [Inserted and to be cited as 
                                              Factories, Offices and Shops 
                                              (Amendment) Law, 1983 (PNDCL 66), 
                                              s. 2]</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              SCHEDULE</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              FIRST SCHEDULE</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (Sections 2 and 3)</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              NOTICE OF OCCUPATION OF A FACTORY</span></b></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (Particulars to be submitted by 
                                              the occupier or intending occupier 
                                              of a factory).</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              1. <i>Name of Occupier or 
                                              intending Occupier of the factory</i></span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              ..............................................................................................................................................</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              ..............................................................................................................................................</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              2. <i>Postal address of the 
                                              factory</i> 
                                              ...........................................................................................</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              ..............................................................................................................................................</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              3. <i>Location of the factory</i> 
                                              ....................................................................................................</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (state exact location, district 
                                              and region)</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              ..............................................................................................................................................</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              4. (a) <i>Structure/type of 
                                              factory building</i> 
                                              ..............................................................................</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              ..............................................................................................................................................</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              ............................................................&nbsp; 
                                              Roof made of 
                                              ..........................................................</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;.............................................................................................................................................</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (state whether lined or sealed and 
                                              the material(s) used.)</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (b) <i>Number of floors on which 
                                              factory operations are intended to 
                                              be carried out 
                                              .............................</i></span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              .............................................................................................................................................................</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              5. <i>Nature of work or 
                                              manufacturing process carried on 
                                              or intended to be carried on in 
                                              the factory</i> 
                                              .......................</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              ...................................................................................................................................................................</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              6. <i>Full description of 
                                              mechanical power used or intended 
                                              to be used in the factory </i>
                                              </span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              ..................................................................................................................................................................</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              7. (a) <i>Number of persons 
                                              employed or intended to be 
                                              employed in the factory:</i></span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Male............................................................ 
                                              Female 
                                              ................................................................................</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (b) <i>Where persons are employed 
                                              or intended to be employed in 
                                              shifts, the maximum number 
                                              employed or intended to be 
                                              employed at any one time:</i></span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Male.........................................................&nbsp;&nbsp; 
                                              Female 
                                              ................................................................................</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              8. (a) <i>Particulars of steam 
                                              boiler(s) in use or intended to be 
                                              used in factory (if applicable):</i></span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (Where more than one steam boiler 
                                              is used in the same factory, 
                                              particulars of each boiler must be 
                                              given.)</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">(i) 
                                              Type, description and distinctive 
                                              number.........................................................................................</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              .................................................................................................................................... 
                                              (ii) Year and place of manufacture..........................................................................................................</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              ....................................................................................................................................</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (iii) Date of last thorough 
                                              examination 
                                              ..................................................................................................</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              ....................................................................................................................................</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (iv) Maximum permissible working 
                                              pressure 
                                              .......................................................................................</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              ....................................................................................................................................</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (b) Particulars of unfired 
                                              pressure vessel(s) in use or 
                                              intended to be used in the factory 
                                              (if applicable):</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (Particulars of each unfired 
                                              pressure vessel must be given 
                                              where more than one is used in the 
                                              same factory.)</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">(i) 
                                              Type, description and distinctive 
                                              number 
                                              .......................................................................................</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              ....................................................................................................................................</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (ii) Year and place of manufacture 
                                              ........................................................................................................</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              ....................................................................................................................................</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (iii) Date of last thorough 
                                              examination...................................................................................................</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              ....................................................................................................................................</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (iv) Maximum permissible working 
                                              pressure 
                                              .......................................................................................</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              ....................................................................................................................................</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (c) <i>Particulars of hoists, 
                                              lifts, cranes and other lifting 
                                              machines in use or intended to be 
                                              used in the factory (if 
                                              applicable):</i></span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">(i) 
                                              Type of machine and identification 
                                              number or description 
                                              ............................................................</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              ....................................................................................................................................</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (ii) Date of installation 
                                              ........................................................................................................................</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (iii) Date of last thorough&nbsp; 
                                              examination................................................................................................</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (iv) Maximum safe working load 
                                              ........................................................................................................</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              ....................................................................................................................................</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              9. <i>Fire Precautions</i></span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (a) Means of escape in case of 
                                              fire provided: (e.g. number and 
                                              type of doors, stairs, etc.)</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (b) Fire-fighting equipment 
                                              provided: (e.g. extinguishers, 
                                              etc.) 
                                              .........................................................</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              ................................................................................................................................................(state 
                                              type and number)</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (c) Type of fire alarm provided 
                                              .........................................................................................................</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              ....................................................................................................................................</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              10. <i>Welfare Facilities</i></span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">(i) 
                                              Number of sanitary conveniences 
                                              provided:</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Female 
                                              .....................................................&nbsp;&nbsp; 
                                              Male 
                                              .............................................................</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (ii) State whether urinal 
                                              accommodation has been provided in 
                                              addition to the sanitary 
                                              conveniences..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (iii) Facilities provided for 
                                              employees' clothing not worn 
                                              during working hours 
                                              ............................</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              ....................................................................................................................................</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (iv) Type and number of washing 
                                              facilities provided in the factory 
                                              for each sex: (e.g. wash basins,
                                              </span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              showers, etc.) 
                                              .............................................................................................................................</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              .................................................................................................................................... 
                                              (v) Has a messroom or canteen been 
                                              provided for the use of persons 
                                              employed in the factory? 
                                              .................................</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              ....................................................................................................................................</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              11. <i>First Aid</i></span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">(i) 
                                              Type of first aid facilities 
                                              provided in the factory: (e.g.) 
                                              clinic, ambulance room, first aid 
                                              boxes, </span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              etc.) 
                                              ....................................................................................................................................</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              ....................................................................................................................................</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (ii) Minimum contents of first aid 
                                              box 
                                              .............................................................................................</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              ....................................................................................................................................</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (iii) Name and address of the 
                                              nearest Medical 
                                              Officer/Hospital/Clinic in the 
                                              area 
                                              .........................................................</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              ....................................................................................................................................</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              12. Date of occupation or intended 
                                              occupation of the 
                                              factory.........................................................</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              13. Particulars of all 
                                              Directors/Partners </span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              ................................................................................................................................................</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              ................................................................................................................................................ 
                                              (Name and address of each 
                                              director/partner to be stated)</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              ............................................................</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (Signature of Applicant)</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Date of Application</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              .............................................. 
                                              19 ......................</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Full names of Applicant (BLOCK 
                                              CAPITALS)</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              .................................................................</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              SECOND SCHEDULE</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (Section 4)</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              PRESCRIBED PARTICULARS TO 
                                              ACCOMPANY BUILDING PLANS</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Two copies of the building plans 
                                              indicating the layout of each 
                                              floor, materials of construction, 
                                              type, height and linings of wall, 
                                              roofs and partitions, specific 
                                              working areas (e.g. carpentry 
                                              shop, machine shop store, etc.) 
                                              windows, wall and roof openings 
                                              for natural ventilation; lighting, 
                                              etc. and type of doors (with 
                                              approximate dimensions) affording 
                                              means of escape ( e.g. sliding 
                                              doors must be submitted with the 
                                              following particulars:&#8212;</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              1. <i>Plans submitted by</i> 
                                              ..............................................................................................................</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              ..............................................................................................................................................</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              ............................................................................Tel. 
                                              No.......................................................</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (Name and address of person or 
                                              company submitting the plans)</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <i>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              On behalf of</span></i><span style="font-family: Arial">: 
                                              ...........................................................................................................................</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              ..............................................................................................................................................</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              .............................................................................................................................................</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              ............................................................................... 
                                              Tel. No. 
                                              ................................................</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (Name and address of occupier or 
                                              intending occupier of the factory 
                                              or proposed factory)</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              2. <i>Factory situated (or to be 
                                              situated) at</i> 
                                              ....................................................................................</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (exact location, district and 
                                              region)</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              3. <i>Structure/type of proposed 
                                              factory building</i> </span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              ..............................................................................................................................................</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              4. <i>Roof of building to be made 
                                              of</i> </span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              ..............................................................................................................................................</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (state whether lined or sealed and 
                                              materials used)</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              5. <i>Number of floors on which 
                                              factory operations are to be 
                                              carried out</i> 
                                              ..........................................</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              6. <i>Nature or work or 
                                              manufacturing process intended to 
                                              be carried on in the factory</i> 
                                              .....................</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              7. <i>Nature and approximate 
                                              quantity of any explosive or 
                                              highly inflammable materials 
                                              intended to be used or stored in 
                                              or underneath the proposed 
                                              building</i> 
                                              .............................................................</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              8. <i>Personnel to be provided for</i>:&#8212;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Male&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
                                              &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Female&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>
                                              </p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt; margin-left: 54.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (a)<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7.0pt; font-family: Times New Roman">&nbsp;&nbsp;
                                              </span></span>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Number of persons intended to be
                                              </span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              employed in administrative work in 
                                              the building ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
                                              ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
                                              ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
                                              &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>
                                              </p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt; margin-left: 54.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (b)<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7.0pt; font-family: Times New Roman">&nbsp;&nbsp;
                                              </span></span>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Maximum number of persons intended
                                              </span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              to be employed per shift in the 
                                              factory ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
                                              ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp; 
                                              &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
                                              ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
                                              &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>
                                              </p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Total&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;..&nbsp; 
                                              ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
                                              &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
                                              _________&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; _________</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              _________ &nbsp;&nbsp; __________&nbsp; </span>
                                              </p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              9. <i>Details of amenities to be 
                                              provided in the building for the 
                                              use of persons employed:&#8212;</i></span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <i>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></i></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
                                              &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
                                              Male&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
                                              Female&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
                                              </span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Water closets: 
                                              Office&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
                                              &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
                                              *</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt; margin-left: 324.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              With/without </span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt; margin-left: 324.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              urinals </span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Factory&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
                                              </span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Wash points:&nbsp;&nbsp; 
                                              Office&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
                                              </span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Factory&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
                                              </span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Showers:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
                                              Office&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
                                              </span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Factory&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
                                              </span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Cloak room:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
                                              Office&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
                                              </span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (dimensions required) 
                                              Factory&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
                                              *With/without lockers&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
                                              </span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Canteen/messroom (dimensions 
                                              required)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
                                              </span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              ........................................................</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Signature of person submitting 
                                              plans</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Date: 
                                              .......................................................</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Arial">
                                              *Delete whichever is inapplicable</span><span style="font-family: Arial">.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Note: &quot;Highly inflammable&quot; should 
                                              be interpreted for the purpose of 
                                              this form as including any 
                                              material which may greatly 
                                              increase the speed at which a fire 
                                              will spread in a building and 
                                              hence affect the means of escape 
                                              from that building.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              THIRD SCHEDULE</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (Section 9)</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              PARTICULARS OF OFFICES AND SHOPS</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              1. <i>Occupier of premises</i>:</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (a) <i>Name of the employer</i> 
                                              ....................................................................................................................................</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              .................................................................................................................................... 
                                              (b) <i>Trading/business name</i> 
                                              ....................................................................................................................................</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              ....................................................................................................................................</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (c) <i>Postal address and location 
                                              of premises</i> 
                                              ...............................................................................................................................</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              ....................................................................................................................................</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (d) Telephone No...............................................................................................................................</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              2. <i>Nature of business/trade</i> 
                                              .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              3. <i>Number of persons employed 
                                              or intended to be employed in the 
                                              office or shop premises at the 
                                              above address in the following 
                                              types of work place (where 
                                              applicable).</i></span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Male&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Female</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (a) 
                                              Office&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
                                              </span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (b) Shop 
                                              (retail)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
                                              </span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (c) Wholesale department or 
                                              warehouse&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
                                              </span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (d) Catering establishment&nbsp; open 
                                              to 
                                              public&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
                                              </span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (e) Staff 
                                              canteen&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
                                              </span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (f) Fuel storage 
                                              depot&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
                                              </span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt; margin-left: 252.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Total&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              4. <i>How many of the total are 
                                              (or will be) employed on floors 
                                              other than ground floor?</i> 
                                              ....................................................................................</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              5. <i>Of the total stated in reply 
                                              to question 3 are any (or will any 
                                              be), housed in separate building? 
                                              (Yes/No</i>) 
                                              .......................................................</span></p>
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                                              6. <i>Is the employer the owner of 
                                              the building(s) or part of the 
                                              building(s) containing the 
                                              premises? (Yes/No</i>) 
                                              .....................................................</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              ................................................................................................................................................</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              7. <i>If not, state the name and 
                                              address of the owner(s) or 
                                              person(s) to whom rent is paid</i> 
                                              .....................................................................................</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              ................................................................................................................................................</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              ...................................................................................................................................................</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              8. <i>Welfare Facilities</i>:</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              No. of sanitary conveniences 
                                              provided:</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Male 
                                              ...............................................................&nbsp; 
                                              Female </span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Details of amenities provided:</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (a) Washing facilities: (Yes/No) 
                                              ..................................................................................................</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (b) Supply of drinking water: 
                                              (Yes/No) 
                                              .....................................................................................</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (c) Accommodation for clothing: 
                                              Yes/No) 
                                              ..................................................................................</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (d) Canteen/Messroom:&nbsp; (Yes/No) 
                                              ..............................................................................................</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (e) First Aid Box/Ambulance Room: 
                                              (Yes/No) 
                                              ............................................................................</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              9. <i>Fire Precautions</i>:</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Means of escape in case of fire 
                                              provided (e.g. Number and type of 
                                              doors, etc. </span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              ....................................................................................................................................</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              ....................................................................................................................................</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              ....................................................................................................................................</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Fire fighting equipment (e.g. type 
                                              of fire extinguishers) provided
                                              </span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              ....................................................................................................................................</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              ....................................................................................................................................</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              ....................................................................................................................................Whether 
                                              Fire Alarm has been installed: 
                                              (Yes/No) 
                                              ........................................................................</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Date 
                                              ................................................</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Signature of employer or person 
                                              authorised to sign on his behalf</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              FOURTH SCHEDULE</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (Section 25)</span></p>
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                                              <b>
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              PROCESSES REQUIRING PROVISION OF 
                                              SUITABLE GOGGLES OR EFFECTIVE 
                                              SCREENS</span></b></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              1. Dry grinding of metals, or 
                                              articles of metal, applied by hand 
                                              to a revolving wheel or disc 
                                              driven by mechanical power.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              2. Turning (external or internal) 
                                              of non-ferrous metals, or of cast 
                                              iron, or of articles of such 
                                              metals or such iron, where the 
                                              work is done dry, other than 
                                              precision turning where the use of 
                                              goggles or a screen would 
                                              seriously interfere with the work, 
                                              or turning by means of hand tools.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              3. Welding or cutting of metals by 
                                              means of an electrical, 
                                              oxyacetylene or similar process.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              4. The following processes when 
                                              carried on by means of hand tools 
                                              or other portable tools:&#8212;</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (a) fettling of metal castings 
                                              involving the removal of metal;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (b) cutting out or cutting off 
                                              (not including drilling or 
                                              punching back) of cold rivets or 
                                              bolts from boilers or other plant 
                                              or from ships;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36.0pt">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (c) chipping and scaling of ships' 
                                              plates;</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (d) breaking or dressing of stone, 
                                              concrete or slag.</span></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>
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