The Visiting Forces and International Headquarters (Application of Law) Order 1999

Application of Factories Acts

13.—(1) For the purposes of the Factories Act 1961(1) (“the 1961 Act”) and the Factories Act (Northern Ireland) 1965(2) (“the 1965 Act”)—

(a) any premises in the occupation of a visiting force or headquarters shall not be deemed not to be a factory, and

(b) any building operations or works of engineering construction undertaken by or on behalf of a visiting force or headquarters shall not be excluded from the operation of those Acts,

by reason only that the work carried on there is not carried on by way of trade or for the purposes of gain.

(2) The power under section 173(1) of the 1961 Act, or under section 173(1) of the 1965 Act, to exempt by order certain factories, building operations or works of engineering construction shall apply to—

(a) a factory belonging to, and in the occupation of, a visiting force as it applies to a factory belonging to the Crown; and

(b) any building operations or works of engineering construction undertaken by or on behalf of a visiting force or headquarters as it applies to any such operations or works where undertaken by or on behalf of the Crown.

(1)

1961 c. 34.

(2)

1965 c. 20 (N.I.).