Application of Act to trade machinery

(1) For the purposes of this Act, “trade machinery” shall be deemed to be personal chattels, and any mode of disposition of trade machinery by the owner thereof which would be a bill of sale as to any other personal chattels shall be deemed to be a bill of sale within the meaning of this Act. (2) For the purposes of this Act– (a) “trade machinery” means the machinery used in or attached to any factory or workshop, exclusive of– (i) the fixed motive-powers, such as their water- wheels, steam engines and their steam-boilers, donkey engines and other fixed appurtenances; 8 Bills of Sale Act (ii) the fixed power machinery, such as the shafts, wheels, drums and their fixed appurtenances, which transmit the action of the motive-powers to the other machinery, fixed and loose; and (iii) the pipes for steam, gas and water, and wires and cables for transmitting electricity in the factory or workshop; (b) “factory or workshop” means any premises on which any manual labour is exercised by way of trade, or for purposes of gain, in or incidental to the making of any article or part of an article, or the altering, repairing, ornamenting or finishing of any article, or the adapting for sale of any article. (3) The machinery or effects excluded by sub-section (2) from the definition of “trade machinery” shall not be deemed to be personal chattels within the meaning of this Act.