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TypeBare Act JurisdictionCentral Government

Factories Act, 1948 Section 85

Power to Apply the Act to Certain Premises

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About this section

Factories Act, 1948 Section 85 is part of Factories Act, 1948 - Power to Apply the Act to Certain Premises. Read the section text below and explore Indian court judgments that cite it.

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Section Text

(1) The State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare that all or any of the provisions of this Act shall apply to any place wherein a manufacturing process is carried on with or without the aid of power or is so ordinarily carried on, notwithstanding that

(i) the number of persons employed therein is less than ten, if working with the aid of power and less than twenty if working without the aid of power, or

(ii) the persons working therein are not employed by the owner thereof but are working with the permission of, or under agreement with, such owner:

Provided that the manufacturing process is not being carried on by the owner only with the aid of his family.

(2) After a place is so declared, it shall be deemed to be a factory for the purposes of this Act, and the owner shall be deemed to be the occupier, and any person working therein, a worker.

Explanation.--For the purposes of this section, "owner" shall include a lessee or mortgage with possession of the premises.

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What does Factories Act, 1948 Section 85 provide?

Section Section 85 of the Factories Act, 1948 (Power to Apply the Act to Certain Premises) is reproduced on this page as part of the Factories Act, 1948. Lawyers and researchers use it to read the statutory wording before checking how courts have applied this section in reported judgments.

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