SCHEDULE 1
Article 3
THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY
1. Subject to the provisions of this Schedule, the activities of the construction industry are the following activities in so far as they are carried out in Great Britain:—
(a) all operations in—
(i) the construction, alteration, repair or demolition of a building or part of a building;
(ii) the construction or demolition of a railway-line, siding or monorail;
(iii) the construction, structural alteration, repair or demolition of any aerodrome, airport, bridge, road, viaduct, dock, harbour, pier, quay, wharf, coast protection, river or drainage work, aqueduct, canal, inland navigation, reservoir, waterworks, bore-hole, well (other than an oil well), filter bed, sewage works, sewer, cooling tower or pond, tunnel, heading, adit, chimney, furnace, carbonising or gas making or gas treatment works, nuclear or thermal power station, hydro-electric station, electric line or any structure designed for its support, cable trench or duct, oil refinery, pipe-line or defence installation;
(iv) the sinking of a shaft or bore-hole in a mine of coal, stratified ironstone, shale or fireclay, or the construction of a road below ground in such a mine;
(v) the construction or repair of a swimming pool or other bathing place, or of a playing field or ground for sporting or recreational purposes, or the laying out of a cemetery;
(vi) the preparation of the site or the laying down of a foundation or sub-structure in connection with any of the above-mentioned operations or with the erection of structural metalwork;
(vii) the manufacture, wholly or mainly from concrete or cast stone, on the site of any building work or civil engineering work and for the purposes of any operations above-mentioned carried out on the site of the building work or civil engineering work, of any of the following products, that is to say, industrialised building components or sections, prefabricated buildings or sections of buildings, beams, columns, piles, caissons, tunnel segments or other civil engineering sections or structures or parts of structures;
(viii) the erection, repair or dismantling of walls, fencing, hoardings or scaffolding;
(ix) the working of bituminous coal, cannel coal or anthracite by open-cast operations or the screening, washing or other preparation of coal on the site of opencast workings;
(x) the restoration of land affected by the working of coal by opencast operations, or of land which has been excavated in the course of winning or working ironstone by opencast operations;
(b) the cutting and bending of reinforcing steel for the purposes of any operations above-mentioned;
(c) the manufacture of—
(i) industrialised building components or sections or of prefabricated buildings or sections of buildings, being components, sections or buildings made wholly or mainly from wood or framed in wood;
(ii) composite framed or laminated woodwork absorbing calculated stresses applied direct or from attached non-loadbearing portions of a building;
(iii) doors, window frames, built-in storage units, stairs or curtain walling being articles wholly or mainly of wood;
(iv) bank, church or laboratory joinery or joinery of any other kind;
(d) the construction of shop, office or similar fittings on the premises on which they are to be installed, or the prefabrication elsewhere of such fittings by the employer engaged in the installation;
(e) the erection or dismantling of exhibition stands;
(f) the installation, testing, inspection, maintenance or repair of contractors' plant, or the letting out on hire of such plant or of scaffolding;
(g) the manufacture of bricks from clay or calcium silicate for building purposes but excluding bricks made for refractory purposes;
(h) the preparation of stone for building purposes;
(i) any activities (other than those above-mentioned) being—
(i) related activities incidental or ancillary to principal activities of the construction industry; or
(ii) activities undertaken in the administration, control or direction of one or more establishments, being establishments engaged wholly or mainly in principal activities of that industry, in related activities incidental or ancillary thereto, or in the administration, control or direction of one or more other establishments engaged in such principal or related activities;
and carried out, in either case, by the employer engaged in those principal activities or, where that employer is a company, by the company or by an associated company of the company;
(j) any activities of industry or commerce (other than construction activities) carried out at or from an establishment mainly engaged:—
(i) in construction activities; or
(ii) in construction activities and in activities described in the Appendix to this Schedule, but to a greater extent in construction activities than in activities described in that Appendix in relation to any one industry.
2. Notwithstanding anything contained in this Schedule, there shall not be included in the activities of the construction industry:—
(a) the activities of any establishment engaged—
(i) mainly in activities not being construction activities or activities described in the Appendix to this Schedule; or
(ii) to a less extent in construction activities than in activities described in that Appendix in relation to any one industry;
(b) the activities of any establishment engaged wholly or mainly in related activities, being activities—
(i) incidental or ancillary to the activities of one or more establishments (in this sub-paragraph hereafter referred to as “the principal establishment”) engaged wholly or mainly in any activities not being principal activities of the construction industry; and
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