§ APPLICATION OF PARTS I AND V TO SPECIAL CASES
§ '(1) Regulations may modify Parts I and V of this Act, in such mariner as the Secretary of State thinks proper, in application to any person who is, has been, or is to be—
- (a) employed on board any ship, vessel, hovercraft or aircraft;
- (b) outside Great Britain at any prescribed time or in any prescribed circumstances; or
- (c) in prescribed employment in connection with continental shelf operations.
§ (2) Regulations under subsection (1) above may in particular provide—
- (a) for any provision of either of those Parts of this Act to apply to any such person, notwithstanding that it would not otherwise apply;
- (b) for any such provision not to apply to any such person. notwithstanding that it would otherwise apply,
- (c) for excepting any such person from the application of any such provision where he neither is domiciled nor has a place of residence in any part of Great Britain;
- (d) for the taking of evidence, for the purposes of the determination of arty question arising under any such provision, in a country or territory outside Great Britain, by a British consular official or such other person as may be determined.
§ (3) In this section `continental shelf operations" means any activities which, if paragraphs (a) and (d) of subsection (6) of section 23 of the Oil and Gas (Enterprise) Act 1982 (application of civil law to certain off-shore activities) were omitted would nevertheless fall within subsection (2) of that section.'. —[Mr. Major.]
§ Brought up, read the First and Second time, and added to the Bill.