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FACTORIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1965 - SECT 137

137.(1) Subject to subsection (3), every person who begins to occupy or to use
any premises as a factory shall, not less than one month before he does so,
serve on the chief inspector a written notice stating the name of the occupier
or the title of the firm, the postal address of the factory, the nature of the
work, whether mechanical power is to be used and, if so, its nature, the name
of the district council within whose district the factory is situated and such
other particulars as may be prescribed.

(2) Subject to subsection (3), not less than one month before the date on
which mechanical power is first used in a factory the occupier shall serve on
the chief inspector a written notice stating the nature of the mechanical
power.

(3) A person may begin to occupy, or to use any premises as, a factory, and
mechanical power may be first used in a factory, less than one month after the
notice required by the foregoing provisions of this section has been served,
if the chief inspector gives written permission; and a person may also begin
to occupy a factory less than one month after the notice has been served or
before serving the notice, if he takes over from another person without
changing the nature of the work and the notice is served as soon as
practicable and in any case within one month of his taking over.

(4) If a person begins to occupy, or to use any premises as, a factory before
he is entitled to do so under the foregoing provisions of this section, or if
a person entitled thereunder to occupy a factory before giving notice fails to
give the required notice within the time allowed, he shall be guilty of an
offence ....

Subs.(5) rep. by SR 1979/246

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