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Factories Act, 1934

Topic Serial # Content Case Law
 

PREAMBLE

 
0 PREAMBLE
 

CHAPTER I

 
 

PRELIMINARY

 
1 Short title, extent and commencement
2 Definitions
3 References to time of day
4 Seasonal factories
5 Power to apply provisions applicable to factories to certain other places
6 Power to declare departments to be separate factories
7 Power to exempt on a change in the factory
8 Power to exempt during public emergency
9 Notice to inspector before commencement of work
 

CHAPTER II

 
 

THE INSPECTING STAFF

 
10 Inspectors
11 Powers of Inspector
12 Certifying surgeons
 

CHAPTER III

 
 

HEALTH AND SAFETY

 
13 Cleanliness
14 Ventilation
15 Artificial humidification
16 Cooling
17 Overcrowding
18 Lighting
19 Water
20 Latrines and urinals
21 Doors to open out wards
22 Precautions against fire
23 Means of escape
24 Fencing
25 Power to require specifications of defective parts or tests of stability
26 Safety f buildings and machinery
27 Restrictions on work near machinery in motion
28 Power to exclude children
29 Prohibition of employment of women and children near cotton openers
30 Notice of certain accidents
31 Appeals
32 Power of provincial Government to make rules to supplement this chapter
33 Additional power to make health and safety rules relating to shelters during rest, -- rooms for children
33 33-A Power to make rules for the provision of canteens
 

CHAPTER IV

 
 

RESTRICTIONS ON WORKING HOURS OF ADULTS

 
34 Weekly hours
35 Weekly holiday
35 35-A Compensatory holidays
36 Daily hours
37 Intervals for rest
38 Spread over
39 Notice of periods for work for adults and preparation thereof
40 Copy of Notice of periods for work to be sent to inspector
41 Register of adult workers
42 Hours of work to correspond with Notice under section 39 and Register under section 41
43 Power to make rules exempting from restrictions
44 Power to make orders exempting from restrictions
45 Further restrictions on the employment of women
46 Special provision for night-shifts
47 Extra pay for overtime
48 Restriction on double employment
49 Control of overlapping shifts
 

CHAPTER IV A

 
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