FACTORIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1965

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FACTORIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1965 - SECT 121



121.(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) Where any such process or operation is carried on or performed for such a
supply as is mentioned in subsection (1) but in other premises than those
mentioned therein, then, if the premises are large enough to admit the
entrance of a person after the machinery or plant therein is in position, the
following provisions of this Act shall apply to the premises as if they were a
factory and the employer of any person employed therein in or in connection
with any such process or operation were the occupier of the factory, that is
to say,

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

Para.(b) rep. by SR 1979/246

(c)Part V;

Para.(d) rep. by SR 1979/246

(e)Part XII;

(f)Part XIII;

(g)Part XIV.

(3) The Ministry may by special regulations apply any of the provisions
mentioned in subsection (2) to any machinery or plant used

(a)in such processes or operations as are mentioned in subsection (1) and for
such a supply as is mentioned therein; but

(b)elsewhere than in such premises as are mentioned in subsection (1) or
subsection (2),

(4) Subsections (1) and (2) shall not, except in so far as the Ministry may by
special regulations direct, apply to any premises where the said 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.

Institutions.

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FACTORIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1965 - SECT 121