The Laws of Fiji
Search
Last Updated: 1 December 2016
AN ACT TO REGULATE THE CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT IN FACTORIES AND OTHER PLACES AND TO PROTECT THE HEALTH, SAFETY AND WELFARE OF PERSONS EMPLOYED THEREIN
[FAC 2] Meaning of “factory”2
2
- factory
means any premises in which, or within the close or curtilage or precincts of which, persons are employed in manual labour in any process for or incidental to any of the following purposes, namely—
- (a)the making of any article or of part of any article;
- (b)the altering, repairing, ornamenting, finishing, cleaning or washing, or the breaking up or demolition of an article; or
- (c)the adapting for sale of any article,
being premises in which, or within the close or curtilage or precincts of which, the work is carried on by way of trade or for the purposes of gain and to or over which the employer of the persons employed therein has the right of access or control; and
- factory
also includes the following premises in which persons are employed in manual labour—
- (i)any yard or any dock, including the precincts thereof, in which ships or vessels are constructed, reconstructed, repaired, refitted, finished or broken up;
- (ii)any premises in which the business of sorting any article is carried on as a preliminary to the work carried on in any factory or incidentally to the purposes of any factory;
- (iii)any premises in which the business of washing or filling bottles or containers or packing articles is carried on incidentally to the purpose of any factory;
- (iv)any premises in which the business of hooking, plaiting, lapping, making-up or packing of yarn or cloth is carried on;
- (v)any laundry or kitchen carried on as an ancillary to another business or incidentally to the purposes of any public institution;
- (vi)any premises in which the construction, reconstruction or repair of locomotives, vehicles or other plant for use for transport purposes is carried on as ancillary to a transport undertaking or other industrial or commercial undertaking, not being any premises used for the purpose of housing locomotives or vehicles where only cleaning, washing, running repairs or minor adjustments are carried out;
- (vii)any premises in which printing by letterpress, lithography, photogravure or other similar process, or book-binding is carried on by way of trade or for purposes of gain or incidentally to another business so carried on;
- (viii)any premises in which the making, adaptation or repair of dresses, scenery or properties is carried on incidentally to the production, exhibition or presentation by way of trade or for purposes of gain of cinematograph films or theatrical performances, not being a stage or dressing-room of a theatre, in which only occasional adaptation or repairs are made;
- (ix)any premises in which the business of making or mending nets is carried on incidental to the fishing industry;
- (x)any premises in which mechanical power is used in connection with the making or repair of articles of metal or wood incidentally to any business carried on by way of trade or for purposes of gain;
- (xi)any premises in which the production of cinematograph films is carried on by way of trade or for purposes of gain;
- (xii)any premises in which articles are made or prepared incidentally to the carrying on of building operations or works of engineering construction, not being premises in which such operations or works are being carried on;
- (xiii)any waterworks or other premises in which mechanical power is used for the purposes of or in connection with a public water supply;
- (xiv)any sewerage works in which mechanical power is used and any pumping station used in connection with any sewerage works;
- (xv)any irrigation works in which mechanical power is used and any pumping station used in connection with any irrigation works;
- (xvi)any premises in which persons are regularly employed in or in connection with the generation, transformation, conversion, switching, controlling, regulating, distribution or use of electrical energy by way of trade or for the purposes of gain, or incidentally to any other business so carried on.
(2) Any railway or tramway line or siding which is used in connection with and for the purposes of a factory, shall be deemed to be part of the factory; and if any such railway or tramway line or siding is used in connection with more than one factory belonging to different occupiers, the line or siding shall be deemed to be a separate factory.
(3) A part of a factory may, with the approval in writing of the chief inspector, be taken to be a separate factory and 2 or more factories may, with the like approval, be taken to be a single factory.
(4) Any workplace in which, with the permission of or under agreement with the owner or occupier, 2 or more persons carry on any work which would constitute the workplace a factory if the persons working therein were in the employment of the owner or occupier, shall be deemed to be a factory for the purposes of this Act, and, in the case of any such workplace the provisions of this Act shall apply as if the owner or occupier of the workplace were the occupier of the factory and the persons working therein were persons employed in the factory.
(5) Where a place situate within the close, curtilage or precincts forming a factory is solely used for some purpose other than the processes carried on in the factory, that place shall not be deemed to form part of the factory for the purposes of this Act, but shall, if it would otherwise be a factory, be deemed to be a separate factory.
(6) Premises shall not be excluded from the definition of a factory by reason only that they are open air premises.
(7) Where the chief inspector, by certificate in writing, so directs, different branches or departments of work carried on in the same factory shall be deemed to be different factories for all or any of the purposes of this Act.
(8) Any premises belonging to or in the occupation of the Government or of any local authority, shall not be deemed not to be a factory, and building operations or works or engineering construction undertaken by or on behalf of the Government or any local authority, shall not be excluded from the operation of this Act by reason only that the work carried on thereat is not carried on by way of trade for purposes of gain.