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LKA-2001-R-61355
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Title_of_text
Factories Ordinance (Sections 35-66) (consolidation).
Main Region
First Region
Country(ies)
Sri Lanka
Subjects (Classification)
Occupational safety and health
Adopted on (Date of text)
2001
Scope of text
National
Type of legislation (Type of text)
Regulation, Decree, Ordinance
Second Region
Abstract/Citation
Contains provisions regarding health and safety of factory workers. Deals, inter alia, with steam receivers and steam containers, air receivers, gas receivers, means of escape in case of fire, supply of drinking water, washing facilities, accomodation for clothing, facilities for resting for female workers, first aid, removal of dust and fumes, meals in certain dangerous trades, protection of eyes, shuttle threading by mouth suction, prohibition of use of white phosphorus in manufacture of matches, underground rooms, laundries, lifting excess weights, prevention of noise, precautions to be taken in factories where electricity is generated, notification of accidents, notification of industrial diseases, and investigation into case of death by accident or industrial disease.
Amended Text region
Amended text(s)
1950-01-01 (LKA-1950-R-47666)
Factories Ordinance (No. 45 of 1942)(Cap. 128).
Amending Text region
Amending text(s)
2002-10-04 (LKA-2002-L-65821)
Factories (Amendment) Act (No. 19 of 2002).
Amending text(s)
2002-10-04 (LKA-2002-L-65821)
Factories (Amendment) Act (No. 19 of 2002).
Amending text(s)
2021-01-18 (LKA-2021-L-113995)
Factories (Amendment) Act, No. 4 of 2021.
Serial region
Serial title
Official Gazette
Date
2001-07
Volume
Vol. 52
Number
No. 3
Page range
pp. 34-58