Section 125 Building operations and works of engineering construction.

Subject to the following provisions of this section, the provisions of this Act specified in subsection (2) shall apply—

undertaken by way of trade or business, or for the purpose of any industrial or commercial undertaking, and to any line or siding which is used in connection therewith and for the purposes thereof and is not part of a railway or tramway.

The said provisions are:—

• Para. (c) rep. by SR 1991/471

• Paras. (d)(e) rep. by SR 1979/246

• Para. (g) rep. by 1978 NI 9

• Para. (h) rep. by SR 1979/246

The provisions of this Act in their application to building operations or to works of engineering construction shall have effect as if any place where such operations or works are carried on were a factory and any person undertaking any such operations or works to which this Act applies were the occupier of a factory, and with such other adaptations and modifications as may be made by regulations made by the Ministry.

The provisions of this Act requiring F10. . . registers to be kept. . . shall be deemed to be complied with as respects building operations or works of engineering construction if the register is kept at an office of the person undertaking the operations or works. . . .

The application of this Act to any building operations or works of engineering construction by virtue of the foregoing provisions of this section shall not be excluded by reason of the fact that they are undertaken on premises to which this Act applies apart from those provisions; and nothing in this section shall be taken as prejudicing the application of this Act to those premises apart from this section.