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Employment in the building trade.
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3.—In this Act the expression “employment in the building trade” means employment on work of a kind commonly undertaken or carried out by builders or building contractors, and includes employment on work of the following descriptions, that is to say:—
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(a) all work in the construction, reconstruction, alteration, repair, painting, decoration or demolition of buildings;
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(b) all work in the installation, alteration, fitting, repair, painting, decoration, maintenance or demolition in any building or its site of articles, fittings, pipes, containers, tubes, wires or instruments (including central heating apparatus or machinery or fuel containers connected thereto), for the heating, lighting, power or water supply of such building, but excluding work in the construction or laying of public mains for the supply of water, gas, or electricity or the connection of buildings and their sites with such mains;
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(c) all work usually carried out or undertaken by a builder or building contractor—
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(i) in the clearing and laying out of sites for buildings,
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(ii) in the construction of foundations on such sites,
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(iii) in the construction, reconstruction, repair and maintenance within such sites of all sewers, drains or other works for use in connection with the sanitation of buildings or the disposal of waste,
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(iv) in the erection on such sites of boundary walls or fences for the use, protection or ornamentation of buildings,
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(v) in the making of roads and paths within the boundaries of such sites;
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(d) all work in the manufacture, alteration, fitting or repair of articles of wood, worked stone, marble, slate, plaster, cement (including concrete blocks) or of cement-like material, for use in the construction, reconstruction, alteration, fitting, repair, decoration or maintenance of buildings and of a type commonly made in builders' workshops or yards, but excluding—
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(i) the manufacture, alteration or repair of any article or monument designed as a memorial to living or dead persons,
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(ii) the quarrying and cutting of slate at a quarry,
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(iii) the quarrying in rough blocks of marble or stone,
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(iv) the manufacture of articles of movable furniture,
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(v) the manufacture of articles requiring treatment in an oven or kiln in the process of manufacture,
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(vi) the manufacture of sewer pipes, drain pipes, bricks, floor tiles, roof tiles,
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(vii) the manufacture of articles composed wholly or mainly of a combination of cement and asbestos.
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