FACTORIES ACT

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LAWS OF THE FEDERATION OF NIGERIA  

FACTORIES ACT

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ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

PART I – Registration of Factories

1. Register of factories.
2. Registration of existing factories.
3. Registration of new factories.
4. Notification of change in particulars furnished.
5. Appointment of Factories Appeal Board.
6. Appeal to Board from decision of Director of Factories.

PART II – Health (general provisions)

7. Cleanliness.
8. Overcrowding.
9. Ventilation.
10. Lighting.
11. Drainage of floors.
12. Sanitary conveniences.
13. Duty of inspector as to sanitary defects remediable by local authority.

PART III – Safety (general provisions)

14. Prime movers.
15. Transmission machinery.
16. Powered machinery.
17. Other machinery.
18. Provisions as to unfenced machinery.
19. Construction and maintenance of fencing.
20. Construction and disposal of new machinery.
21. Vessels containing dangerous liquids.
22. Self‐acting machines.
23. Training and supervision of inexperienced workers.
24. Hoists and lifts.
25. Chains, ropes and lifting tackle.
26. Cranes and other lifting machines.
27. Register of chains, etc., and other lifting machines.
28. Safe means of access and safe place of employment.
29. Precautions in places where dangerous fumes are likely to be present.
30. Precautions with respect to explosives or inflammable dust, gas, vapour or substance.
31. Steam boilers.
32. Steam receivers and steam containers.
33. Air receivers.
34. Exception as to steam boilers, steam receivers, steam containers and air receivers.
35. Prevention of fire.
36. Safety provisions in case of fire.
37. Power of inspector to issue improvement notice.
38. Power of inspector to issue prohibition notice as to dangerous factory.
39. Appeal against notice.

PART IV – Welfare (general provisions)

40. Supply of drinking water.
41. Washing facilities.
42. Accommodation for clothing.
43. First‐aid.
44. Exemption if ambulance room is provided.

PART V – Health, safety and welfare (special provisions and regulations)

45. Removal of dust or fumes.
46. Meals in certain dangerous trades.
47. Protective clothing and appliances.
48. Protection of eyes in certain processes.
49. Power to make regulations for health, safety and welfare.
50. Power to take samples.

PART VI – Notification and investigation of accidents and industrial diseases

51. Notification of accidents.
52. Power to extend dangerous occurrences provisions as to notice of accidents.
53. Notification of industrial disease.

PART VII – Special applications, extensions and miscellaneous provisions

54. Premises where part of building is separate factory.
55. Docks, wharves and quays.
56. Premises in which steam boilers are used.
57. Power to extend application of provisions of Act.

PART VIII – General registers, etc.

58. General registers.
59. Preservation of registers and records.
60. Posting of abstract of Act, regulations and notices.
61. Duties of persons employed.
62. Prohibition of deductions from wages.

PART IX – Administration

63. Report.
64. Appointment of inspectors.
65. Powers of inspectors.
66. Power of inspectors to conduct proceedings before a magistrate’s court.
67. Provisions as to regulations made under this Act.
68. Publication in the Gazette of certificates issued or revoked by the Director of Factories.

PART X – Offences, penalties and legal proceedings

69. Offences.
70. Penalty for offences for which no express penalty is provided.
71. Penalty in cases of death or injury.
72. Forgery of certificates, false entries and false declarations.
73. Penalty for persons actually committing offence for which occupier is liable.
74. Powers of occupier or owner to exempt himself from liability on the conviction of actual offender.
75. Proceedings against persons other than occupier or owners.
76. Owner of machine liable in certain cases instead of occupier.
77. Prosecution of offences.
78. Special provisions as to evidence.
79. Service and sending of documents, etc.
80. Power to modify agreements.
81. Power to apportion expenses.

PART XI – General

82. Saving.
83. General application.
84. Application to factories belonging to Government of the Federation or States.
85. Power to exempt in cases of emergency.
86. Repeals and savings.
87. Meaning of factory.
88. Interpretation.
89. Short title.

SCHEDULE

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FACTORIES ACT

An Act to provide for the registration, etc., of factories; to provide for factory workers and a wider spectrum of workers and other professionals exposed to occupational hazards, but for whom no adequate provisions had been formerly made; to make adequate provisions regarding the safety of workers to which the Act applies and to impose penalties for any breach of its provisions.

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[Commencement.] [11th June, 1987]               

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