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FACTORIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1965 - SECT 125



125.(1) Subject to the following provisions of this section, the provisions of
this Act specified in subsection (2) shall apply

(a)to building operations; and

(b)to works of engineering construction;

(2) The said provisions are:

(a)the provisions of Part I with respect to sanitary conveniences;

(b)the provisions of sections 50 and 51 so far as they enable the Ministry to
make regulations;

(c)the provisions of Part II with respect to steam boilers and air receivers
...;

Paras.(d)(e) rep. by SR 1979/246

(f)Part V;

Para.(g) rep. by 1978 NI 9 art.56(2) sch.7; para.(h) rep. by SR 1979/246

(j) the provisions of Part X with respect to the abstract of this Act and
notices, special regulations, general registers (so far as applicable),
preservation of registers and records, ...;

(k)the provisions of Part XI with respect to ... duties ... of [district
councils and of the chief administrative medical officer of a
Health and Social Services Board;]

(l)Part XII;

<(m)Part XIII;


(n)Part XIV.

(3) ... no special regulations made under Part IV shall operate so as to
interfere with the design of any works of engineering construction or with the
adoption in the execution of those works of any method not inconsistent with
the safety of the works or of the persons employed which is prescribed in the
specification or in any signed plans issued, or written directions given, by
the consulting engineer or the engineer in charge.

(4) The provisions of this Act in their application to building operations or
to works of engineering construction shall have effect as if any place where
such operations or works are carried on were a factory and any person
undertaking any such operations or works to which this Act applies were
the occupier of a factory, and with such other adaptations and modifications
as may be made by regulations made by the Ministry.

(5) The provisions of this Act requiring general registers to be kept and
copies of the prescribed abstract of this Act and of special regulations or
the prescribed abstract of such regulations to be kept posted up on the
premises shall be deemed to be complied with as respects building operations
or works of engineering construction if the register is kept at an office of
the person undertaking the operations or works and copies of the abstract of
this Act and of the regulations or abstracts thereof are kept posted up at
each office, yard or shop of the person undertaking the operations or works at
which persons employed by him on the operations or works attend, and in a
position where they can easily be read by those persons.

(6) Subject to subsection (7), any person undertaking any building operations
or works of engineering construction to which this Act applies shall, not
later than seven days after the beginning thereof, serve on the chief
inspector a written notice stating the name and postal address of that person,
the place and nature of the operations or works, whether any mechanical power
is used and, if so, its nature, the name of the district council within whose
district the operations or works are situated and such other particulars as
may be prescribed.

(7) Subsection (6) shall not apply to any operations or works which the person
undertaking them has reasonable grounds for believing will be completed in a
period of less than six weeks, except in such cases as the chief inspector may
direct; and where a person undertakes any building operations or works of
engineering construction in a place where such operations or, as the case may
be, works are in progress, he shall not be required to give a notice under
that subsection if such a notice was given in respect of the operations or
works in progress.

(8) The application of this Act to any building operations or works of
engineering construction by virtue of the foregoing provisions of this section
shall not be excluded by reason of the fact that they are undertaken on
premises to which this Act applies apart from those provisions; and nothing in
this section shall be taken as prejudicing the application of this Act to
those premises apart from this section.

Employment of women and young persons in places other than factories in
processes connected with lead manufacture or involving the use of lead
compounds.

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FACTORIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1965 - SECT 125