The Cyprus Gazette

SUPPLEMENT TO THE CYPRUS GAZETTE, 9TH OCTOBER, 1936. 70:}
Amendment
of section 2
2. Section 2 of the Principal Law is hereby amended by ^
the addition thereto of the following sub-section:— of Law"2 of
"(3) Where any oath or affidavit is required to be ^^^^'
taken or made under the British NationaUty and Status
of AUens Act, 1914, or any Act amending or substituted
for the same or any regulations made thereunder, such
oath or affidavit shaU be taken or made before the
Commissioner of the District in which the deponent
resides."
Objects and Reasons.
The object of this Bill is to enable Commissioners to
administer oaths or receive declarations made in connection
with appUcations for the grant of certificates of naturalization
under the British NationaUty and Status of AUens
Acts.
L. LLOYD-BLOOD,
(M.P. 1419/14/3.) Attorney-General.
A BILL
ENTITLED
A LAW CONCERNING THE EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN ON
UNDERGROUND WORK IN MINES.
BE it enacted by His ExceUency the Governor and
Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Cyprus as
foUows :—
1. This Law may be cited as the Employment of Women short title.
(in Mines) Law, 1936.
2. In this Law Interpre-
" mine " includes any undertaking, whether pubhc or *^*^°°'
private, for the extraction of any substance from under
the surface of the earth.
3. No female, whatever her age, shaU be employed on Prohibition of
underground work in any mine: o?womSron
Provided that the Governor in Council may, by underground
regulations to be pubUshed in the Gazette, exempt from the m?nes.^^
operation of this section—
(a) females holding positions of management who
do not perform manual work;
(b) females employed in health and welfare services ;
(c) females who, in the course of their duties, spend
a period of training in the underground parts of a
mine ; and
(d) any other females who may occasionaUy have to
enter the underground parts of a mine for the purpose
of a non-manual occupation.
4. Any person being the proprietor, owner or manager Penaiti* ties.
of any mine in which any female is employed in contravention
of this Law shaU be guilty of an ofifence and shaU
be Uable to a fine of ten pounds for every female so
employed. ^ ,..„__
Objects and Reasons.
The object of this Bill is to give effect to the provisions
of a draft Convention concerning the employment of females
on underground work in mines of aU kinds, which was
adopted by the International Conference at its Nineteenth
Session in June, 1935, and which His Majesty's Government
in the United Kingdom propose to ratify.
ΚΥΠΡΙΑΚΗ ΔΗΜΟΚΡΑΤΙΑ
L. LLOYD-BLOOD,
(M.P. 1078/36.) Attomey-General.
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