Singapore legislation

Clause 68

Ships

(1)

Subject to subsections (3) and (4) of this section, the provisions of this Act specified in subsection (2) of this section 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 said provisions are: —

(a)

Part I;

(b)

Part II;

(c)

The provisions of sections 14 and 15(1) of this Act;

(d)

the provisions of Part V with respect to electrical installations and equipment, training and supervision of unexperienced 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)the provisions of sections 21(1) and 22(1), subsections (2), (3), (5) and (7) of section 33, subsections (1), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7) and (8) of section 34, subsection (4) of section 35 and subsections (1), (2) and (3) of section 45 of this Act;

(f)

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

(h)

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

(i)

Part XI; and

(j)

Part XII.

(3)

The Chief Inspector may by 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) of this section 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.

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