Building operations

75.-(1) Subject as hereafter in this section provided, the provisions of this Law hereafter in this subsection mentioned shall apply to building operations undertaken by way of trade or business, or for the purpose of any industrial or commercial undertaking, and to any line or siding which is used in connection therewith and for the purposes thereof, that is to say:-

(a) Part I;

(b) Part II;

(c) [Καταργήθηκε];

(d) the provisions of Part IV with respect to sanitary conveniences;

(e) the provisions of Part V with respect to steam boilers and air receivers (including the provisions as to exceptions as to steam boilers and air receivers ανελκυστήρας, ανυψωτήρας, αλύσεις, σχοινία, αναρτήρας, γερανούς και άλλας ανυψωτικάς μηχανάς), and the power of a Court to make orders as to dangerous conditions and practices;

(f) Part VI;

(ζ) αι διατάξεις του Μέρους VII όσον αφορά εις ειδικούς κανονισμούς δι’ ασφάλειαν και υγιεινήν~

(h) the provisions of Part IX with respect to the abstract of this Law and with respect to notices, rules, General Registers (so far as applicable), preservation of registers and records, duties of persons employed and the prohibition of deduction from wages;

(i) the provisions of Part X with respect to powers and duties of inspectors, powers of the Υπουργός and regulations, rules and orders made under this Law;

(j) Part XI.

(2) The provisions of this Law in their application to building operations shall have effect as if any place where such operations are carried on were a factory, and any person undertaking any such operations to which this Law applies were the occupier of a factory, and with such other adaptations or modifications as may be made by rules made by the Υπουργός:

Provided that such of the provisions of this Law as require General Registers to be kept, and copies of the prescribed abstract of this Law, and copies of rules, or the prescribed abstract of rules, to be kept posted on the premises, shall be deemed to be complied with as respects building operations if the General Register is kept at an office of the person undertaking the building operations and copies of the Abstract of this Law, and copies of the rules or abstract thereof, are kept posted at each office, yard, or shop, of the person undertaking the operations at which persons employed by him on the operations attend and in a position where they can easily be read by such persons.

(3) Any person undertaking any building operations to which this Law applies shall, not later than seven days after the beginning thereof, serve on an Inspector a written notice stating the name and postal address of the person so undertaking the operations, the place and nature of the operations, whether any mechanical power is used and, if so, its nature, and such other particulars as may be prescribed by rules made by the Υπουργός:

Provided that-

(a) this subsection shall not apply to any operations which the person undertaking them has reasonable grounds for believing will be completed in a period of less than six weeks; and

(b) where a person undertakes any building operations in a place where such operations are in progress, he shall not be required to give such a notice as aforesaid if a notice was given in respect of the operations in progress.