Factories Act, 1934 — section 5

5. Power to apply provisions applicable to factories to certain other places..—_(1) The Provincial Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, declare that all or any of the provisions of this Act applicable to factories shall apply to any place wherein a manufacturing process is being carried on or is ordinarily carried on whether with or without the use of power whenever 3 [five] or more workers are working therein or have worked therein any one day of the twelve months immediately preceding. 1 Omitted by A. O., 1949, (w. e. f. 28th March, 1949). 2 Omitted and subs. by A. O., 1937. 3 Omitted and subs. by Act No. XVI of 1973, ss. 3 and 4. 4 Subs. by Act No. XVI of 1941, s. 2.

(2)A notification under sub-section (1) may be made in respect of any one such place or in respect of any class of such places or generally in respect of all such places.

(3)Notwithstanding anything contained in clause (j) of section 2, a place, to which all or any of the provisions of this Act applicable to factories are for the time being applicable in pursuance of a declaration under sub-section (1), shall, to the extent to which such provisions are so made applicable but not otherwise, be deemed to be a factory.]