Gasworks

Gasworks, in Ballantine's Law Dictionary, 3rd Edn., 1969 'gasworks' is defined as 'a plant for the manufacture of artificial gas'. Similarly in Webster's New 20th Century Dictionary, it is defined as 'an establishment in which gas for heating and lighting is manufactured'. In www.freedictionary.com 'gasworks' is explained as 'a manufactory of gas, with all the machinery and appurtenances; a place where gas is generated'. The meaning of the term 'gasworks' is well understood in the sense of the place where the gas is manufactured, Special Reference No. 1 of 2001, in re (2004) 4 SCC 489 (508). (Constitution of India, Sch. VII List II, Entry 25 and Art. 246)