law: Factories Act, 1948 
  27. Prohibition of employment of women and children near
  
  cotton-openers 
  No woman or child shall be employed in any part of a factory for
  
  pressing cotton in which a cotton opener is at work:
  PROVIDED  that if the feed-end of a cotton-opener is in
  
  a room separated from the delivery end by a partition extending to the roof or
  
  to such height as the Inspector may in any particular case specify in writing,
  
  women and children may be employed on the side of the partition where the
  
  feed-end is situated.