Singapore legislation

Clause 68

Ships

(1)

Subject as hereinafter in this section provided, the provisions of this Act hereinafter in this section mentioned 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 any tank, bilges or holds in a ship, that is to say: —

(a)

Part I;

(b)

Part II;

(c)

the provisions of Part V with respect to steam boilers (including the provisions as to exemptions as to steam boilers) so however that the owner of the boiler shall, instead of the person deemed to be the occupier, be responsible for any contravention of the said provisions;

(d)

the provisions of Part V as to the power of the Chief Inspector to make orders and the power of the Minister to make orders;

(e)

The provisions of section 60 of this Act;

(f)

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 the said Part IX with respect to the duties of persons employed and the prohibition of deductions from wages;

(g)

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

(h)

Part XI;

(i)

Part XII.

(2)

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 a ship during a trial run.

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