| Section 1 | Premises to which the Act applies. |
| Section 2 | Exception for premises in which only employer's relatives or outworkers work. |
| Section 3 | Exception for premises where only 21 man-hours weekly normally worked. |
| Section 29(2) | Application for fire certificates with respect to premises. |
| Section 39 | Appropriate authority for purposes of sections 28 to 38. |
| Section 40 | Exclusion of application of sections 28 to 38 to certain fuel storage premises and modification thereof in relation to others. |
| Section 42(1) and (11) | Fire precautions in buildings in single ownership of which a part consists of premises to which the Act applies. |
| Section 43(1) and (9)(a) | Fire precautions in buildings plurally owned of which a part consists of premises to which the Act applies. |
| Section 46 | Exemption of premises from certain requirements of the Act. |
| Section 49 | Notification of fact of employment of persons. |
| Sections 52 to 56, 57(2) to (5) and 58 to 62 | Enforcement of the Act. |
| Sections 63 to 73 | Offences, penalties and legal proceedings. |
| Sections 74 and 75 | Amendment of sections 123(1), 124(1) and 125(1) of Factories Act 1961, and provisions consequential thereon. |
| Section 76(1) | Amendment of Public Health Act 1936. |
| Section 78 | Provision for securing exercise of local Act powers in conformity with the Act. |
| Section 81 | Mode of service of notices under the Act. |
| Section 83(3) (so far as it relates to section 29(2), (4) and (5) | Provision in relation to the enforcement of the Act with respect to Crown premises and the exemption of such premises from certain requirements of the Act. |
| Section 85 | Exclusion of application of the Act to factories, to certain fish salerooms and to parts below ground of mines. |
| Section 86 | Exclusion of application of the Act to premises occupied for transitory purposes. |
| Section 87 | Powers of Parliament of Northern Ireland. |
| Section 88 | Application of the Act to Isles of Scilly. |
| Section 89 | Application of the Act to Inner and Middle Temples. |