Section 27 of the Factory Act , 1948 – Prohibition of employment of women and children near cotton-openers

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Section 27: Prohibition of employment of women and children near cotton-openers

No woman or child shall be employed in any part of a factory for pressing cotton in which a cotton-opener is at work:

Provided that if the feed-end of a cotton-opener is in a room separated from the delivery end by a partition extending to the roof or to such height as the Inspector may in any particular case specify in writing, women and children may be employed on the side of the partition where the feed-end in situated.

Source: official text of The Factory Act , 1948 as published on India Code (PDF). All sections of the Factory Act , 1948.

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