Section 4 | Employment of women and young persons in processes involving the use of lead compounds

(1)For subsection (2) of section 75 of the Factories Act 1961 (which prohibits the employment in any process involving the use of lead compounds of a woman or young person who has been suspended after medical examination from employment in any such process on the ground that therin would involve special danger to health) there shall be substituted the following subsection :—

(2)If,in the case of a woman or young person who is employed in a factory in a process involving the use of lead compounds, an employment medical adviser serves on the occupier of the factory a written notice stating that, in the opinion of the adviser, the continued employment of that woman or young person in that process would involve special danger to her or his health, it shall not be lawful for that woman or young person to be employed in any such process in that factory, unless the notice has been cancelled by a further written notice served on the occupier by an employment medical adviser.

(2)Where, at the commencement of this Act, a person’s employment is unlawful under section 75(2) of the Factories Act 1961 (as originally enacted) or under that subsection as extended by section 128 of that Act, and is known to be so by the occupier of the factory or, if the employment is not in a factory, by the employer, then there shall be deemed to have been served on that occupier or employer immediately after that commencement by an employment medical adviser, under the subsection substituted for section 75(2) by subsection (1) above, a written notice stating that, in the opinion of the adviser, the continued employment of that person in that process would involve special danger to his health.