Clause 31

Subject to subsection (3), the provisions of this Act specified in subsection (2) shall apply to any work carried out in or on any premises of an airport (not being premises forming part of a factory, or premises to which the application of this Act is otherwise extended by this Part) in repairing, checking, inspecting, servicing, cleaning, loading and unloading, and refuelling any aircraft as if the premises were a factory and as if the person undertaking the work were the occupier of a factory.(2) The provisions referred to in subsection (1) are —

Part I;

Part II;

sections 14 and 15 (1);

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, the power of the Chief Inspector to make orders, the power of the Minister to make orders, and the notification of accidents and dangerous occurrences;

sections 21(1), 22 (1) and (2), 33 (2), (3), (5), (7), (8), (9) and (10), 34 (1), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), (8) and (9), 35 (4), (5) and (6), 52, 53 and 54;

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

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;

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

Part XI; and

Part XII.(3) The provisions of this Act specified in subsection (2) shall not apply in relation to any such machinery or plant which is part of an aircraft and is the property of the aircraft owner.(4) The Chief Inspector may by a certificate in writing grant, subject to any condition 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 aircraft.”.