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Factory, a place where a number of traders reside in a foreign country for the convenience of trade; also a building in which goods are manufactured.In the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, 'Factory' means by s. 149 'textile factory and non-textile factory, or either of those descriptions of factories.'The expression 'textile factory' means any premises wherein or within the close or curtilage of which steam, water or other mechanical power is used to move or work any machinery employed in preparing, manufacturing or finishing or in any process incident to the manufacture of cotton, wool, hair, silk, flax, hemp, jute, tow, china-grass, cocoanut fibre or other like material, either separately or mixed together or mixed with any other material, or any fabric made thereof:Provided that print works, bleaching and dyeing works, lace warehouses, paper mills, flax scutch mills, rope works and hat works shall not be deemed to be textiles factories.'Tenement factory' means a factory when mechanic...
Occupier of a factory
Occupier of a factory, means the person who has ultimate control over the affairs of the factory, and, where the said affairs are entrusted to a managing agent, such agent shall be deemed to be the occupier of the factory. [Employees' Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952, s. 2(k)]The 'occupier' in general means a person who occupies the factory either by himself or his agent. He may be an owner, he may be a lessee or even a mere licensee, but he must, court think, have the right to occupy the property and dictate how it is to be managed, Emperor v. Jamshedji Naserwanji Modi, AIR 1931 Bom 308.The expression 'occupier' is not to be equated with 'owner', John Donald Mackenzie v. Chief Inspector of Factories, AIR 1962 SC 1351 (1352)....
Work of the factory
Work of the factory, the expression 'work of the factory' should also be understood in the sense of any work necessary for the expansion of the factory or establishment or for augmenting or increasing the work of the factory or establishment, Regional Director v. South India Flour Mills, AIR 1986 SC 1686 (1691): (1986) 3 SCC 238....
Textile factory
Textile factory. Any premises wherein or within the close or curtilage of which steam, water, or other mechanical power is used in preparing, etc., wool, cotton, etc. [Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, s. 149 (1)]. See FACTORY....
Employee in a factory
Employee in a factory, the word 'employee' would include not only persons employed in the factory but also person connected with the work of the factory, Hyderabad Asbestos Cement Products Ltd. v. Employees Insurance Court, (1978) 1 SCC 194: AIR 1978 SC 356....
Factory-cum-Godown
Factory-cum-Godown, includes all plant and machinery and all goods lying within the boundary wall of the factory was covered under both the Policies, Polymat India Pvt. Ltd. v. National Insurance Co. Ltd., AIR 2005 SC 286....
Factories and units
Factories and units, By definition, factories and units fall under different categories, the former being geared to manufacture of sugar by power, the latter being engaged in the production of gur, rab or khandsari sugar in crushers driven by mechanical power. A classification based on scale of operations, product manufactured and other substantial differences bearing on production capacity, profits of business and ability to pay tax, is constitutionally valid and the feeble, Ganga Sugar Corporation Ltd. v. State of Uttar Pradesh, AIR 1980 SC 286 (292): (1980) 1 SCC 223: (1980) 1 SCR 769....
factory made
made in a factory Contrasted with homemade...
Butter factory
Butter factory. 'Any premiseson which by way of trade butter is blended, re-worked or subjected to any other treatment, but not so as to cease to be butter.' Such premises have to be registered and are open to inspection by any officer of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries or of the Local Government Board, by virtue of the Butter and Margarine Act, 1907. See MARGARINE....
Employer
Employer, means (i) a company; (ii) a firm; (iii) an association of persons or a body of individuals, whether incorporated or not, but excluding any fund or trust or institution eligible for exemption under clause (23C) of section 10 or registered under section 12AA; (iv) a local authority; and (v) every artificial judicial person, not falling within any of the preceding sub-clauses. [Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), s. 115W(a)]Employer, means:A person who controls and direct a worker under an express or implied contract of hire and who pays the workers salary or wages, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.(a) in relation to contract labour, the principal employer, and(b) in relation to other labour, the person who has the ultimate control over the affairs of any establishment or who has, by reason of his advancing money, supplying goods or otherwise, a substantial interest in the control of the affairs of any establishment, and includes any other person to whom the affairs of the establi...
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