68.-(1) Where a part of a building is let off as a separate factory, the provisions of this Law hereafter in this subsection mentioned shall apply to any part of the building used for the purposes of the factory but not comprised therein, that is to say:-
(a) the provisions of Part IV with respect to cleanliness and lighting;
(b) the provisions of Part V with respect to prime movers, transmission machinery, hoists and lifts, chains, ropes and lifting tackle, cranes and other lifting machines, safe means of access and safe place of employment, steam boilers, steam receivers and steam containers, and air receivers (including the provisions as to exceptions as to steam boilers, steam receivers and steam containers, and air receivers);
(c) the provisions of Part V with respect to the power of a Court to make orders as to dangerous conditions and practices and as to dangerous factories,
and the owner of the building shall be responsible for any contravention of the said provisions and shall also be responsible, instead of the occupier of the factory, for any contravention as respects the factory of the provisions of Part IV of this Law with respect to sanitary conveniences and the provisions of Part V of this Law with respect to hoists and lifts, prevention of fire, and safety provisions in case of fire, and, for the purposes of the provisions with respect to prevention of fire and safety provisions in case of fire, the factory shall be deemed to include any part of the building used for the purpose of the factory:
Provided that the owner of the building shall be responsible for the cleanliness of sanitary conveniences only when used in common by several tenants, and shall be responsible for any contravention of the provisions relating to hoists and lifts, chains, ropes and lifting tackle, lifting machines, steam boilers, steam receivers and steam containers, air receivers, prevention of fire and safety provisions in case of fire, only in so far as the said provisions relate to matters within his control; and the occupier of the factory shall, in any case, be responsible for any contravention (whether as respects of the factory or otherwise) of any of the said provisions with respect to any machinery or plant belonging to or supplied by him.
(2) In sections 47 and 48 of this Law, as they apply in relation to the factory and as they are applied by the foregoing subsection, references to the occupier shall be taken as references to the occupier of the factory or to the owner of the building, according to which of them is responsible in respect of the matters complained of.
(3) For the purposes of the provisions applied by subsection (1) of this section, lifting machines attached to the outside of the building, and chains, ropes and lifting tackle used in connection with those machines, shall be treated as being in the building, but any lifting machine not used for the purposes of the factory, and any chains, ropes or lifting tackle not used in connection with a lifting machine so used, shall be disregarded.
(4) Where, under subsection (1) of this section, any provision is applied containing a reference to the General Register, then, in relation to matters in respect of which the owner of the building is responsible, that reference shall be taken as a reference to a register to be kept by him, and subsection (2) of section 79 of this Law shall apply in relation to any such register as if the owner were the occupier of a factory.