{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/factories-act-1961/section-126",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/factories-act-1961/section-126.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Eliz2/9-10/34",
  "legislation_title": "Factories Act 1961",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/factories-act-1961",
  "path": "section/126",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "126",
  "heading": "Ships.",
  "text": "(1) Subject to subsection (3) of this section, the provisions of this Act specified in subsection (2) of this section shall apply to any work carried out in a harbour or wet dock in constructing, reconstructing, repairing, refitting, painting, finishing or breaking up a ship or in scaling, scurfing or cleaning boilers (including combustion chambers and smoke boxes) in a ship, or in cleaning oil-fuel tanks or bilges in a ship or any tank in a ship last used for oil of any description carried as cargo or any tank or hold last used for any substance so carried of a description specified in regulations of the Minister as being of a dangerous or injurious nature; and for the purposes of those provisions as so applying the ship shall be deemed to be a factory, and any person undertaking the work shall be deemed to be the occupier of a factory.\n(2) The said provisions are:—\n(a) the provisions of sections fifty and fifty-one so far as they enable the Minister to make regulations;\nb)—(d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(e) Part V;\n(f) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(g) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(h) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(j) the provisions of Part X with respect to ..., preservation of registers and records, . . .\n(k) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(l) Part XII;\n(m) Part XIV.\n(3) Nothing in this Act shall apply to any such work as is mentioned in subsection (1) of this section which is done by the master or crew of a ship or done on board a ship during a trial run.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 126(2)(b)–(d) repealed by S.I. 1974/1941, reg. 7, Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Ss. 121(5), 126(2)(f) repealed by Employment Act 1989 (c. 38, SIF 43:1), s. 29(4), Sch. 7 Pt. II"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 126(2)(g) repealed by Employment Medical Advisory Service Act 1972 (c. 28), Sch. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 126(2)(h) repealed by S.I. 1975/1012, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 126(2)(j) repealed (6.4.2009) by The Factories Act 1961 and Offices, Shops and Railway Premises Act 1963 (Repeals and Modifications) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/605), regs. 1, 4(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words repealed by S.I. 1975/1012, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "S. 126(2)(k) repealed by S.I. 1974/1941, reg. 7, Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 126 amended by Employment Medical Advisory Service Act 1972 (c. 28), s. 8(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/9-10/34/section/126",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:10:19.831204+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}