Singapore legislation

Section 75

Ships

Amended by19/78

(1)

Subject to subsections (3) and (4), the provisions of this Act specified in subsection (2) shall apply to any work carried out in a harbour or wet dock in constructing, re-constructing, 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 any tank, bilges or holds in a ship; 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.

(2)

The provisions referred to in subsection (1) are:

(a)

Part I;

(b)

Part II;

(c)

sections 14 and 15(1);

(d)

the provisions of Part V with respect to electrical installations and equipment, training and supervision of inexperienced workers, lifting gear, lifting appliances and lifting machines, air receivers, prevention of fire, powers and duties of the Chief Inspector to make orders, power of the Minister to make orders to prohibit work or processes in certain circumstances, and notification of accidents and dangerous occurrences;

(e)

sections 21(1), 22(1) and (2), 33(2), (3), (5), (7), (8), (9), (10), (14) and (15), 34(1), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), (8) and (9), 35(4), (5) and (6) and 47(1), (2) and (3);

(f)

Part VII except those provisions with respect to meals in certain dangerous trades;

(g)

the provisions of Part IX with respect to factory records subject to such modifications as may be made by rules made by the Commissioner and the provisions of that Part with respect to the duties of persons employed and the prohibition of deductions from wages;

(h)

the provisions of Part X with respect to the powers and duties of the inspector;

(i)

Part XI; and

(j)

Part XII.

Amended by19/78

(3)

The Chief Inspector may by a certificate in writing grant, subject to any conditions specified in the certificate, to any person named in the certificate exemption from compliance with any of the provisions of this Act specified in subsection (2) in respect of any work carried out on or in any ship.

(4)

Nothing in this Act shall apply to any such work as aforesaid done by the master or owner of a ship or done on board the ship during a trial run.[68

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