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14 (3) For the avoidance of doubt, a person shall be regarded for the purposes of this Act as being at work in a workplace whether or not he is lawfully at work in that workplace.

Meanings of “workplace” and “factory”

5.—(1) In this Act, “workplace” means any premises where a person is at work or is to work, for the time being works, or customarily works, and includes a factory.

(2) Subject to this section, “factory” means any premises within which—
 * (a) persons are employed in any process for or incidental to any of the following purposes:
 * (i) the making of any article or part of any article;
 * (ii) the altering, repairing, ornamenting, finishing, cleaning or washing, or the breaking up or demolition of any article; or
 * (iii) the adapting for sale of any article; and
 * (b) any work referred to in paragraph (a) is carried out by way of trade or for purposes of gain and to or over which the employer of the persons employed therein has the right of access or control.

(3) The following premises within which persons are employed are deemed to be factories:
 * (a) any yard (including any dock, wharf, jetty, quay and the precincts thereof) where the construction, reconstruction, repair, refitting, finishing or breaking up of ships is carried out, including the waters adjacent to any such yard where the construction, reconstruction, repair, refitting, finishing or breaking up of ships is carried out by or on behalf of the occupier of that yard;
 * (b) any premises where the sorting of articles is carried on as a preliminary to the work carried on in any other factory, or incidentally to the purposes of any other factory, whether that other factory is situated within or outside Singapore;
 * (c) any premises where the washing or filling of bottles or containers or packing of articles is carried on incidentally to the purposes of