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Machinery. As to the riotous destruction of machinery, see Malicious Damage Act, 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 97), s. 11, as amended. As to the fencing of machinery in factories, see FACTORY.

Chimneys which are merely solid structure built upon the ground whose part do not move at all cannot be considered to be 'machinery', Municipal Council v. M/s. Birla Jute Manufacturing Company Ltd., AIR 1983 MP 161 (166). [M.P. Nagriya Statewar Sampati Kar Adhiniyam, (14 of 1964), s. 5(ii)]

The air cooling plant is also liable to be classified as machinery, Municipal Corporation of Greater Bombay v. Blue Stars Ltd., AIR 1995 Bom 38 (40). [Bombay Municipal Corporation Act, (3 of 1888), Sch. H, Item 50]

Includes prime movers, transmission machinery and all other appliances whereby power is generated, transformed, transmitted or applied. [Factories Act, 1948 (63 of 1948), s. 2 (j)]

The word 'machinery' when used in ordinary language prima facie, means some mechanical contrivances which, by themselves or in combination with one or more other mechanical contrivances, by the combined movement and inter-dependent operation of their respective parts generate power, or evoke, modify, apply or direct natural forces with the object in each case of effecting so definite and specific a result (AIR 1922 PC 27), CIT v. Mir Mohd. Ali, AIR 1964 SC 1693 (1696): (1964) 7 SCR 846. [Income Tax Act, 1922, ss. 10(2) (vi) and (vi-a)]