Factories Act 1961

184Construction of references in other enactments to factories and workshops, etc. and exclusion of certain provisions of Public Health (London) Act, 1936

(1)Nothing in this Act shall affect the definition of the expressions " factory " and " workshop " for the purposes of the Rating and Valuation (Apportionment) Act, 1928, but save as aforesaid references in any enactment to a factory or workshop within the meaning of the Factory and Workshop Acts, 1901 to 1929, or any of those Acts, shall be construed as references, to a factory within the meaning of this Act.

(2)References in any enactment to an examining surgeon appointed under the Factories Act, 1937, shall be construed as references to a person appointed under section one hundred and fifty-one of this Act.

(3)Section one hundred and six of the Public Health (London) Act, 1936 (which relates to sanitary conveniences for factories), section one hundred and twenty-eight of that Act (which relates to nuisances from certain factories, workshops and work places), and section one hundred and twenty-nine of that Act (which relates to lime-washing and washing of certain factories, workshops and work places) shall not apply to any factory to which this Act applies.