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 general registers (so far as applicable), preservation of registers and records, . . . F5
(k). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F6
(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
F1S. 126(2)(b)–(d) repealed by S.I. 1974/1941, reg. 7, Sch. 1
F2Ss. 121(5), 126(2)(f) repealed by Employment Act 1989 (c. 38, SIF 43:1), s. 29(4), Sch. 7 Pt. II
F4S. 126(2)(h) repealed by S.I. 1975/1012, Sch.
F5Words repealed by S.I. 1975/1012, Sch.
F6S. 126(2)(k) repealed by S.I. 1974/1941, reg. 7, Sch. 1
Modifications etc. (not altering text)