Application of Law to electrical stations

69.-(1) The provisions of this Law shall apply to any premises in which persons are regularly employed in, or in connection with the processes or operations of generating, transforming or converting, or of switching, controlling or otherwise regulating, electrical energy for supply by way of trade, or for supply for the purposes of any transport undertaking or other industrial or commercial undertaking or of any public building or public institution, or for supply to streets or other public places, as if the premises were a factory and the employer of any person employed in the premises in, or in connection with, any such process or operation were the occupier of a factory.

(2) This provisions of this Law hereafter in this subsection mentioned shall apply to any other premises in which any such processes or operations as aforesaid are carried on, or performed, for such supply as aforesaid, being premises large enough to admit the entrance of a person after the machinery or plant therein is in position, as if the premises were a factory and the employer of any person employed in the premises in, or in connection with, any such process or operation were the occupier of a factory, that is to say:-

(a) Part I;

(b) Part II;

(c) the provisions of Part VII with respect to the Υπουργού directions for safety and health;

(d) 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;

(e) Part XI.

(3) The Υπουργός may by rules apply any of the provisions of this Law mentioned in subsection (2) to any machinery, or plant, used elsewhere than in premises mentioned in that subsection or in subsection (1), being machinery or plant used in the aforesaid processes or operations and for such supply as aforesaid, as if the machinery or plant were machinery or plant in a factory and the employer of any person employed in connection with any such use of the machinery or plant were the occupier of a factory.

(4) Subsections (1) and (2) shall not, except in so far as the Υπουργός may by rules direct, apply to any premises where the aforesaid processes or operations are only carried on, or performed, for the immediate purpose of working an electric motor or working any apparatus which consumes electrical energy for lighting, heating, transmitting or receiving messages or communications, or other similar purposes.

(5) For the purposes of the definition in section 2 of the expression “factory,” electrical energy shall not be deemed to be an article, but save as aforesaid nothing in this section shall affect the application of this Law to factories within the meaning of that definition.