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The Factories Act, 1948 Complete Act

State: Punjab

Year: 1948

THE FACTORIES ACT, 1948 THE FACTORIES ACT, 1948 ACT NO. 63 OF 1948 1* [23rd September, 1948.] An Act to consolidate and amend the law regulating labour in factories. WHEREAS it is expedient to consolidate and amend the law regulating labour in factories; It is hereby enacted as follows:- CHAPTER I PRELIMINARY 1. Short title, extent and commencement. 1. Short title, extent and commencement. (1) This Act may be called the Factories Act, 1948. 2*[(2) It extends to the whole of India 3***.] (3) It shall come into force on the 1st day of April, 1949. 2. Interpretation. 2. Interpretation. In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context,- (a) "adult" means a person who has completed his fifteenth year of age; (b) "adolescent" means a person who has completed his fifteen year of age but has not completed his eighteenth year; 4*[(bb) "calendar year" means the period of twelve months beginning with the first day of January in any year;] (c) "child" means a person who has not completed his fifteenth year of age; 5*[(ca)] "competent person", in relation to any provision of this Act, means a person or an institution recognized as such by the Chief.....

Central Industrial Security Force Act, 1968 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1968

.....this Act8[x x x x]; (g) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act; (h) "scheduled industry" means any industry engaged in the manufacture or production of the articles mentioned in the First Schedule toIndustries (Development and Regulation) Act, 1951-; 9[(ha) "subordinate officer" means a person appointed to the Force as an Inspector, a Sub- inspector or an Assistant Sub-Inspector;] (i) "supervisory officer" means any of the officers appointed underS.4-and includes any other officer appointed by the Central Government as a supervisory officer of the Force. 9[(j) "under officer" means a person appointed to the Force as a Head Constable. Naik or Lance Naik;] 10[(2) Any reference in this Act to a law which is not in force in any area shall, in relation to that area, be construed as a reference to the corresponding law, if any, in force in that area.] SECTION 03: CONSTITUTION 14of the Force- (1) There shall be constituted and maintained by the Central Government12[an armed force of the Union] to be called the Central Industrial Security Force for the better protection and Security of Industrial undertakings owned by that Government.15["and to perform.....

Factories Act, 1948 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1948

FACTORIES ACT, 1948 FACTORIES ACT, 1948 63 of 1948 An Act to consolidate and amend the law regulating labour in factories. WHEREAS it is expedient to consolidate and amend the law regulating labour in factories; It is hereby enacted as follows:- SECTION 01: SHORT TITLE, EXTENT AND COMMENCEMENT (1) This Act may be called the Factories Act, 1948. 1[(2) It extends to the whole of India 2[***]]. (3) It shall come into force on the 1st day of April, 1949. SECTION 02: INTERPRETATION In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context,- (a) "adult" means a person who has completed his eighteenth year of age; (b) "adolescent" means a person who has completed his fifteen year of age but has not completed his eighteenth year; 3[( bb) "calendar year" means the period of twelve months beginning with the first day of January in any year;] (c) "child" means a person who has not completed his fifteenth year of age; 4[(ca)"competent person", in relation to any provision of this Act, means a person or an institution recognised as such by the Chief Inspector for the purposes of carrying out tests, examinations and inspections required to be done in a factory under.....

The Factories Act, 1948 Complete Act

State: Delhi

Year: 1948

THE FACTORIES ACT, 1948 THE FACTORIES ACT, 1948 ACT NO. 63 OF 1948 1* [23rd September, 1948.] An Act to consolidate and amend the law regulating labour in factories. WHEREAS it is expedient to consolidate and amend the law regulating labour in factories; It is hereby enacted as follows:- CHAPTER I PRELIMINARY 1. Short title, extent and commencement. (1) This Act may be called the Factories Act, 1948. 2*[(2) It extends to the whole of India 3***.] (3) It shall come into force on the 1st day of April, 1949. 2. Interpretation. In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context,- (a) "adult" means a person who has completed his fifteenth year of age; (b) "adolescent" means a person who has completed his fifteen year of age but has not completed his eighteenth year; 4*[(bb) "calendar year" means the period of twelve months beginning with the first day of January in any year;] (c) "child" means a person who has not completed his fifteenth year of age; 5*[(ca)] "competent person", in relation to any provision of this Act, means a person or an institution recognized as such by the Chief Inspector for the purposes of.....

The Mizoram Municipalities Act, 2007 Complete Act

State: Mizoram

Year: 2007

.....by one set of boundaries; Provided that where two or more adjoining holdings form part and parcel of the site or premises of a dwelling house, manufactory, warehouse or place of trade or business, such holdings shall be deemed to be one holding for the purpose of the Act; Explanation: Holdings separated by a street or other means of communication shall he deemed to be adjoining within the meaning of this proviso; (31) "house-drain" means any drain of one or more premises used for the drainage of such premises; (32) "house gully" a passage or strip of land constructed, set apart or utilised for the purpose of serving as a drain or of affording access to a privy, urinal cesspool or other receptacle for filth or polluted matter to municipal employees or to persons employed in the cleansing thereof or in the removal of such matter therefrom, and includes the air space above such passage or land; (33) "house" means a building for human occupation whether as a residence or otherwise, having a separate principal entrance from the common way and includes any shop, warehouse or workshop; (34) "hut" means any building constructed principally of wood, mud, leaves, grass or.....

Factories Act, 1948 Chapter VI

Title: Working Hours of Adults

State: Central

Year: 1948

.....factory for more than forty-eight hours in any week. Section 52 - Weekly holidays (1) No adult worker shall be required or allowed to work in a factory on the first day of the week (hereinafter referred to as the said day), unless-- (a) he has or will have a holiday for a whole day on one of the three days immediately before or after the said day, and (b) the manager of the factory has, before the said day or the substituted day under clause (a), whichever is earlier,-- (i) delivered a notice at the office of the Inspector of his intention to require the worker to work on the said day and of the day which is to be substituted, and (ii) displayed a notice to that effect in the factory: Provided that no substitution shall be made which will result in any worker working for more than ten days consecutively without a holiday for a whole day. (2) Notices given under sub-section (1) may be cancelled by a notice delivered at the office of the Inspector and a notice displayed in the factory not later than the day before the said day or the holiday to be cancelled, whichever is earlier. (3) Where, in accordance with the provisions of sub-section (1), any worker works on.....

Factories Act, 1948 Section 58

Title: Prohibition of Overlapping Shifts

State: Central

Year: 1948

( 1 ) Work shall not be carried on in any factory by me ans of a system of shifts so arranged that more than one relay of workers is engaged in work of the same kind at the same time. 1[( 2 ) The S t ate Government or subject to the control of the State Government, the Chief Inspector, may, by written order and for the reasons specified therein, exempt on such conditions as may be deemed expedient, any factory or class or description of factories or any department or section of a factory or any category or description of workers therein from the provisions of sub-section ( 1 ) . ] ____________________ 1. Substituted by Act 25 of 1954, section 12 for sub-section (2) (w.e.f. 7-5-1954).

Factories Act, 1948 Chapter VII

Title: Employment of Young Persons

State: Central

Year: 1948

.....- Non-adult workers to carry tokens A child who has completed his fourteenth year or an adolescent shall not be required or allowed to work in any factory unless (a) a certificate of fitness granted with reference to him under section 69 is in the custody of the manager of the factory, and (b) such child or adolescent carries while he is at work a token giving a reference to such certificate. Section 69 - Certificates of fitness (1) A certifying surgeon shall, on the application of any young person or his parent or guardian accompanied by a document signed by the manager of a factory that such person will be employed therein if certified to be fit for work in a factory, or on the application of the manager of the factory in which any young person wishes to work, examine such person and ascertain his fitness for work in a factory. (2) The certifying surgeon, after examination, may grant to such young person, in the prescribed form, or may renew-- (a) a certificate of fitness to work in a factory as a child, if he is satisfied that the young person has completed his fourteenth year, that he has attained the prescribed physical standards and that he is fit for such.....

Factories Act, 1948 Section 71

Title: Working Hours for Children

State: Central

Year: 1948

.....the purpose of this sub-section "night" shall mean a period of at least twelve consecutive hours which shall include the interval between 10 P.M. and 6 A.M.] (2) The period of work of all children employed in a factory shall be limited to two shifts which shall not overlap or spread over more than five hours each; and each child shall be employed in only one of the relays which shall not, except with the previous permission in writing of the Chief Inspector, be changed more frequently than once in a period of thirty days. (3) The provisions of section 52 shall apply also to child workers and no exemption from the provisions of that section may be granted in respect of any child. (4) No child shall be required or allowed to work in any factory on any day on which he has already been working in another factory. 2 [(5) No female child shall be required or allowed to work in any factory except between 8 A.M. and 7 P.M.] ______________________ 1. Substituted by Act 25 of 1954, section 19, for clause (b) (w.e.f. 7-5-1954). 2. Inserted by Act 20 of 1987, section 23 (w.e.f. 1-12-1987).

National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 Schedule II

Title: Schedule

State: Central

Year: 2005

.....of every employment under the Scheme, there shall be no discrimination solely on the ground of gender and the provisions of the Equal Remuneration Act, 1976 (25 of 1976), shall be complied with. 3[35 (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in paragraphs 1,3,9 and 14 of Schedule II of National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005, in the event of national calamities in the nature of flood, cyclone, tsunami and earthquake resulting into mass dislocation of rural population the adult members of rural households of the areas so affected may-- (i) seek for registration and get job card issued by Gram Panchayat or Programme Officer of the area of temporary relocation; (ii) submit written or oral applications for work to the Programme Officer or the Gram Panchayat of the area of temporary relocation; and (iii) apply for re-registration and re-issuance of job card in the event of loss or destruction. (2) In the event of restoration of normalcy, the job card so issued shall be re-endorsed at original place of habitation and shall be clubbed with the original job card on being retrieved. (3) The number of days of employment so provided shall be counted while competing 100 days.....