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GUY-1951-R-42178
Breadcrumb
Title_of_text
Factories (Health and Welfare) Regulations (No. 16 of 1951).
Main Region
First Region
Country(ies)
Guyana
Subjects (Classification)
Occupational safety and health
Adopted on (Date of text)
1951
Scope of text
National
Type of legislation (Type of text)
Regulation, Decree, Ordinance
Second Region
Abstract/Citation
Provides regulations governing, inter alia, cleanliness, overcrowding, temperature, ventilation, lighting, drainage, drinking water, sanitary conveniences, facilities for sitting, meals, industrial disease, hours of work and overtime. Each employee shall be allowed at least 250 cubic feet of space in a factory workroom (s. 4). Young persons and women shall not work more than 8 hours a day and clock more than 100 hours of overtime per year (ss. 16-17). Made under Factories Act 1947.
Basic Text region
Basic text(s)
1947 (GUY-1947-L-42169)
Factories (Hours and Holidays) Act (Cap. 95:02).
Amending Text region
Amending text(s)
1983-12-14 (GUY-1983-R-55241)
Factories (Health and Welfare) (Amendment) Regulations 1983 (no. 9 of 1983)
Monograph region
Monograph title
The Laws of Guyana
Publisher
Government of Guyana
Date
1977
Edition
Revised edition
Page range
pp. 80-86