{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/factories-act-northern-ireland-1965/section-124",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/factories-act-northern-ireland-1965/section-124.json",
  "legislation": "apni/1965/20",
  "legislation_title": "Factories Act (Northern Ireland) 1965",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/factories-act-northern-ireland-1965",
  "path": "section/124",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "124",
  "heading": "Ships.",
  "text": "(1) Subject to subsection (3), the provisions of this Act specified in subsection (2) 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 Ministry 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 50 and 51 so far as they enable the Ministry to make regulations;\n[(aa the provisions of section 10A ;]\nParas. (b)‐(d) rep. by SR 1979/246\n(e) Part V;\nPara. (f) rep. by 1990 NI 2\nPara. (g) rep. by 1978 NI 9\nPara. (h) rep. by SR 1979/246\n(j) the provisions of Part X with respect to . . . , preservation of registers and records, …;\nPara. (k) rep. by SR 1979/246\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) which is done by the master or crew of a ship or done on board a ship during a trial run.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "1978 NI 9"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "1990 NI 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 124(2)(j) repealed (31.10.2011) by Factories Act (Northern Ireland) 1965 and Office and Shop Premises Act (Northern Ireland) 1966 (Repeals and Modifications) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2011 (S.R. 2011/283), reg. 4(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "SR 1979/246"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1965/20/section/124",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T21:32:30.938962+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."
}