Factories Act, 1955
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Application of Act to electrical stations. |
83.—(1) The provisions of this Act shall apply to any premises in which persons are regularly employed in or in connection with the processes or operations of generating, transforming or converting, or of switching, controlling or otherwise regulating, electrical energy for supply by way of trade, or for supply for the purposes of any transport undertaking or other industrial or commercial undertaking or of any public building or public institution, or for supply to streets or other public places, as if the premises were a factory and the employer of any person employed in the premises in or in connection with any such process or operation were the occupier of a factory. | |
(2) The provisions of this Act hereinafter in this subsection mentioned shall apply to any other premises in which any such processes or operations as aforesaid are carried on or performed for such supply as aforesaid, being premises large enough to admit the entrance of a person after the machinery or plant therein is in position, as if the premises were a factory and the employer of any person employed in the premises in or in connection with any such process or operation were the occupier of a factory, that is to say:— | ||
(a) the provisions of Part I; | ||
(b) the provisions of Part V with respect to special regulations for safety and health; | ||
(c) the provisions of Part VI; | ||
(d) the provisions of Part X with respect to powers and duties of inspectors and regulations, orders and certificates of the Minister; | ||
(e) the provisions of Part XI; | ||
(f) the provisions of Part XII. | ||
(3) The Minister may by special regulations apply any of the provisions of this Act mentioned in subsection (2) of this section to the machinery or plant used elsewhere than in premises mentioned in that subsection or in subsection (1) of this section, being machinery or plant used in the aforesaid processes or operations and for such supply as aforesaid, as if the machinery or plant were machinery or plant in a factory, and the employer of any person employed in connection with any such use of the machinery or plant were the occupier of a factory. | ||
(4) Subsections (1) and (2) of this section shall not, except in so far as the Minister may by special regulations direct, apply to any premises where the aforesaid processes or operations are only carried on or performed for the immediate purpose of working an electric motor or working any apparatus which consumes electrical energy for lighting, heating, transmitting or receiving messages or communications, or other purposes. | ||
(5) For the purposes of the definition in section 3 of this Act of “factory”, electrical energy shall not be deemed to be an article, but save as aforesaid nothing in this section shall affect the application of this Act to factories within the meaning of that definition. |