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Cleaning of
machinery
in motion.

Construction
and main-
tenance of
tloors, pas-
sages, stairs
and puard-
rauls.

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so situated as to be as safe as it would be if completely
encased.

(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, for use ina factory in the Colony 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 to a fine of four hundred and eighty
dollars.

(3) Nothing in this section shall apply to any
machine constructed before the passing of this Ordinance.

19. No person shall clean any part of a prime mover
or of any transmission machinery while the prime mover
or transmission machinery 1s in motion by mechanical
power, and no person shall clean any part of any machine
if the cleaning thereof would expose him to risk of injury
from any moving part either of that machine or of any
adjacent machinery,

20. (1) All floors, steps, stairs, passages and gangways
and all hand-rails and = guard-rails shall be of sound
construction and properly maintained.

(2) Every staircase and flight of steps in a building
or affording a means of exit from a building shall be
provided with a substantial hand-rail which, if the staircase
or flight of steps has an open side, shall be on that side,
and, in the case of a staircase or flight of steps having
two open side., or in the case of a staircase or flight of
steps which, owing to the nature of the construction thereof
or the condition of the treads or other special circumstances,
is specially lable to cause accidents, such a hand-rail shall
be provided on both sides. Any open side of a staircase
or flight of steps shall also be guarded by the provision of
a lower rail or other effective means.

(3) All openings in floors shall be securely fenced,
except in so far as the nature of the work renders such
fencing impracticable.

(+) Every ladder shall be soundly constructed and

properly maintained and shall be of adequate length for
the purpose for which it is at anv time being used.