(1) Subject to paragraph (2), an employer shall ensure that every multiple rip sawing machine and straight line edging machine -
(a) has provided on the operator's side of the in-feed pressure rollers, an effective device which is designed and constructed to contain, as far as practicable, any material accidentally ejected by the machine, and every such device extends to not less than the full width of the said pressure rollers, and
(b) on which the saw spindle is mounted above the machine table, is fitted on the side remote from the fence with a suitable guard, which extends from the edge of the device referred to in paragraph (a) along a line parallel to the blade of the saw at least 300 millimetres towards the axis of the saw and is of such a design, and so constructed, as to contain, as far as practicable, any material accidentally ejected from the machine.
(2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply to any woodworking machine in respect of which safeguards are provided which render the mach
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