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has been employed on the work in respect to which such tools, furnishings, and equipment has been provided.
GENERAL PRECAUTIONS AS TO THE USE OF LEAD COLOURS.
5. The owner or manager of any business in which persons are employed in the manipulation of lead colours (whether mixed with oil or otherwise) shall provide—
(i.) Overall garments for every person whose person or clothing may be exposed to contact with such lead colours; and
(ii.) Lavatory-basins supplied with hot and cold water, soap, nail-brushes, and towels sufficient for cleansing the hands of every person so employed.
CONTROL OF PAINTING-WORK, AND THE USE OF LEAD PAINT.
6. No person shall import, or store, or transport, or sell paint containing any lead colour otherwise than in a receptacle on which is conspicuously written in capital letters of not less than twenty-four points face-measurement the words “Lead paint.”
7. No person shall use or cause to be used any lead colour in painting or in mixing paint for immediate use unless such lead colour is in the form of a paste or of a paint ready for application.
8. No person shall use or cause to be used the process of dry rubbing-down for removing paint in any situation in which such process may cause any person employed thereon to be exposed to dust created by such process.
9. No person shall employ any one in handling, filling, or painting with any paint containing lead colours unless—
(i.) Satisfactory provision is made enabling every person so employed to wash his hands before taking meals and on completion of his work each day; and
(ii.) Satisfactory provision is made for the storage and protection of the overall garments of every person so employed.
10. Every person employed in the use of any paint containing lead colours—
(i.) Shall during the time he is using such paint wear washable overall garments. Such overall garments, when not in use shall be stored in such manner that they are not soiled by lead colours or lead paint, and shall be washed at least once in each week;
(ii.) Shall, before eating any food and before leaving the premises in which he is so employed, wash his hands so as to remove all lead colours therefrom; and
(iii.) Shall neither keep, prepare, nor consume any food or drink in a room in which such food or drink is exposed to contamination by lead colours.
11. Wherever the Medical Officer of Health is of opinion that any person is employed in work which by reason of the fumes from turpentine or other vehicle or drier used in painting is dangerous to the health of such person, the Medical Officer of Health may, by requisition in writing, require the employer of such person to provide ventilation or other means whereby the fumes are rendered less dangerous.
Precautions when Poisoning by Lead is suspected.
12. Whenever any employer or any Inspector of Factories under the Factories Act, 1921, has reason to believe that any person employed in carrying on a lead process or in using a paint containing lead colours is suffering from lead poisoning or symptoms which may reasonably be suspected to be the result of lead poisoning he shall forthwith notify the Medical Officer of Health of the facts, together with the address of the person so suffering or having such symptoms, and the description and address of the premises in which such person is employed.
13. When the Medical Officer of Health considers that any person employed in carrying on a lead process or in using a paint containing lead colours may be suffering from lead poisoning, he may require the employer of such person to cause such person to be examined by a registered medical practitioner, and to cause a report of such examination in writing signed by the said medical practitioner to be delivered to the Medical Officer of Health, and may require such examination and report to be repeated at the end of every three months for a period not exceeding twelve months. Such person shall forthwith present himself for examination by the medical practitioner so appointed.
14. (1.) When authorized to do so by the Medical Officer of Health the Inspector of Factories may suspend from employment in a lead process or in painting with paint containing lead colours any person certified by the Medical Officer of Health as suffering from lead poisoning, and shall revoke such suspension when the Medical Officer of Health is satisfied that the health of the person suspended so warrants. In the event of an appeal against the action of the Inspector being made as provided in Regulation 16 hereof the suspension shall continue until cancelled by order of the Magistrate.
(2.) After any person is so suspended from employment it shall not be lawful to employ such person on any lead process or in any painting-work until the suspension is revoked by the Inspector of Factories in the manner herein provided.
(3.) The occupier of every factory in which any person has been suspended from work as herein provided shall show in the record required to be kept in terms of section sixteen of the Factories Act, 1921, the date on which such person was suspended from work, the cause of such suspension, and the date on which the Inspector of Factories revoked the suspension, or the date on which such person ceased to be employed by the occupier.
General.
15. A copy of these regulations shall be exhibited in a conspicuous place in every factory in which a lead process is used or in which paint containing lead colours is in frequent use.
16. Every person whose work or business is affected by any decision of the Medical Officer of Health or of the Inspector of Factories made in accordance with these regulations may appeal to the Magistrate as provided in section sixty-six of the Factories Act, 1921, and the procedure and the powers granted to the Magistrate in that section shall thereupon apply to such an appeal.
17. Any person who contravenes or fails to comply with the provisions of clause (3) of Regulation 14 hereof shall be liable on conviction for any breach thereof to a fine not exceeding five pounds (£5) and any person who contravenes or fails to comply with any other provision of these regulations shall be liable on conviction for any breach thereof to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds (£50).
SCHEDULE A.
THE method of testing lead colour for soluble lead shall be as follows :—
A weighed quantity of the material from which all oils and turpentines have been removed and which has been dried at 100° C. and thoroughly mixed is to be continuously shaken for one hour, at the common temperature, with 1,000 times its weight of an aqueous solution of hydrochloric acid containing 0·25 parts per centum by weight of hydrogen chloride. This solution is thereafter to be allowed to stand for one hour and then filtered. The lead salt contained in the clear filtrate is then to be precipitated as lead sulphide and weighed as lead sulphate.
F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
Partial Revocation of Order in Council prohibiting all Alienation of certain Native Lands other than Alienation in favour of the Crown.
CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 27th day of July, 1925.
Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.
WHEREAS by section three hundred and sixty-three of the Native Land Act, 1909, it is enacted that any Order in Council made under that section may at any time be varied or revoked:
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority hereinbefore mentioned, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby revoke the Order in Council referred to in Part I of the Schedule hereto, but only in so far as it affects the land mentioned in Part II of the said Schedule.
SCHEDULE.
PART I.
ORDER in Council under section 363 of the Native Land Act, 1909, dated the 7th day of January, 1925, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 8th day of January, 1925, prohibiting alienation of Reureu 1, 2, and 3 Block Subdivisions.
PART II.
Reureu No. 1 Subdivision 5A .. . 32 1 24
,, No. 1 ,, 5B .. . 18 0 25
,, No. 1 ,, 10 .. . 8 1 35
,, No. 3c 1 ,, .. . 32 1 34
being situate in Ongo and Rangitito Survey Districts.
F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.