Forth Marine Insurance Company Act 1842
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1842 c. xcix |
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CAP.
XCIX.
All
Act to
prohibit
the
Employment
of
Women
and Girls
in
Mines
and
Collieries,
to
regulate
the Employment
of
Boys,
and to
make other
Provisions relating to Persons working therein.
[10th August 1842.}
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HERE AS
it is
unfit that Women
and
Girls should
be
employed in any Mine or Colliery, and
it is
expedient
to
make Regulations regarding the Employment
of
Boys
in
Mines and Collieries, and
to
make Provisions
for the
Safety of Per-
sons working therein:
Be it
therefore enacted by the Queen's most
Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords
Spiritual
and
Temporal,
and
Commons,
in
this present Parliament
assembled, and by the Authority
of
the same, That from and after Females not
the passing
of
this Act
it
shall not be lawful
for
any Owner
of
any to be em-
Mine or Colliery whatsoever to employ any Female Person within any P][?>red
in
for the Purpose
of
working therein, other than such
as
were
at or
after the Pe
before the passing of this Act employed within such Mine or Colliery; riods herein.
and that from and, after Three Calendar Months from the passing
of
mentioned,
this Act
it
shall not be lawful for any Owner of any Mine or Colliery
to employ anyrFemale Person who
at
the passing
of
this Act shall
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Mine or Colliery, cr permit any Female Person to work or be therein,
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