Factories Act 1961 (c. 34)

Part VII E+W+S Special Applications and Extensions

Docks, wharves, quays, warehouses and ships E+W+S

126 Ships. E+W+S

(1) Subject to subsection (3) of this section, the provisions of this Act specified in subsection (2) of this section shall apply to any work carried out in a harbour or wet dock in constructing, reconstructing, repairing, refitting, painting, finishing or breaking up a ship or in scaling, scurfing or cleaning boilers (including combustion chambers and smoke boxes) in a ship, or in cleaning oil-fuel tanks or bilges in a ship or any tank in a ship last used for oil of any description carried as cargo or any tank or hold last used for any substance so carried of a description specified in regulations of the Minister as being of a dangerous or injurious nature; and for the purposes of those provisions as so applying the ship shall be deemed to be a factory, and any person undertaking the work shall be deemed to be the occupier of a factory.

(2) The said provisions are:—

(a) the provisions of sections fifty and fifty-one so far as they enable the Minister to make regulations;

(b)—(d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F1

(e) Part V;

(f) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F2

(g) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F3

(h) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F4

(j) the provisions of Part X with respect to F5 ..., preservation of registers and records, . . . F6

(k) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F7

(l) Part XII;

(m) Part XIV.

(3) Nothing in this Act shall apply to any such work as is mentioned in subsection (1) of this section which is done by the master or crew of a ship or done on board a ship during a trial run.

Textual Amendments

F1 S. 126(2)(b)–(d) repealed by S.I. 1974/1941, reg. 7, Sch. 1

F2 Ss. 121(5), 126(2)(f) repealed by Employment Act 1989 (c. 38, SIF 43:1), s. 29(4), Sch. 7 Pt. II

F3 S. 126(2)(g) repealed by Employment Medical Advisory Service Act 1972 (c. 28), Sch. 3

F4 S. 126(2)(h) repealed by S.I. 1975/1012, Sch.

F5 Words in s. 126(2)(j) repealed (6.4.2009) by The Factories Act 1961 and Offices, Shops and Railway Premises Act 1963 (Repeals and Modifications) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/605), regs. 1, 4(2)(b)

F6 Words repealed by S.I. 1975/1012, Sch.

F7 S. 126(2)(k) repealed by S.I. 1974/1941, reg. 7, Sch. 1

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 S. 126 amended by Employment Medical Advisory Service Act 1972 (c. 28), s. 8(1)