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Employment of boys, girls and women above ground.
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7. With respect to boys, girls, and women employed above ground, in connexion with any mine, the following provisions shall have effect:
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(1) No boy or girl under the age of twelve years shall be so employed:
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(2) No boy or girl under the age of thirteen years shall be so employed—
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(a) for more than six days in any one week; or
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(b) if employed for more than three days in any one week, for more than six hours in any one day; or
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(c) in any other case for more than ten hours in any one day:
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(3) No boy or girl of or above the age of thirteen years and no woman shall be so employed for more than fifty-four hours in any one week or more than ten hours in any one day:
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(4) No boy, girl, or woman shall be so employed between the hours of nine at night and five on the following morning, nor on Sunday, nor after two o’clock on Saturday afternoon:
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(5) There shall be allowed an interval . of not less than twelve hours between the termination of employment on one day, and the commencement of the next employment:
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(6) A week shall be deemed to begin at midnight on Saturday night and to end at midnight on the succeeding Saturday night:
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(7) No boy, girl, or woman shall be employed continuously for more than five hours, without an interval of at least half an hour for a meal, nor for more than eight hours on any one day, without an interval or intervals for meals amounting altogether to not less than one hour and a half:
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(8) No boy, girl, or woman shall be employed in moving railway waggons.
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The provisions of this section as to the employment of boys, girls, and women after two o’clock on Saturday afternoon, shall not apply in the case of any mine in Ireland so long as it is exempted by order of a Secretary of State.
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