Explain important Terms of the factories act 1948.
Important Terms of act:
(a) Factory: A place wherein ten or more persons are working and wherein a manufacturing process is going on using electricity, steam and oil.
(b) Manufacturing Process: A process for
- making, repairing, altering, finishing, washing, packing, cleaning, or else treating a substance for its utilize, sale, transport and disposal.
- pumping oil, water and sewage or
- Generating, transmitting or transforming power, or
- composing kinds for printing, lithography, photogravure and printing for letterpress, or other same process or book-binding;
- constructing, repairing, reconstructing, refitting, breaking up or finishing ships or vessels
(c) Worker: Worker means a person employed directly or through any agency, whether for wages or not, in any manufacturing process or in cleaning any part of the machinery or premises used for manufacturing process or in any other kind of work incidental to or connected with, the manufacturing process or the subject of manufacturing process.
(d) Adult: A person who has done eighteenth year of age.
(e) Child: A person who has not done his fifteenth year of age.
(f) Power: Electrical energy or any other form of energy that is mechanically transmitted and is not generated through human or animal agency.
(g) Machinery: this includes
- Prime movers, engine and motor
- Transmission machinery, shaft, belt, drum, wheel and pulley.
- All other appliances whereby power is generated, transmitted as well as transformed.
(h) Occupier of Factory: A person who has eventual control over the affairs of the factory and where the said affairs are entrusted to a managing agent, that agent will be seems as the occupier of the factory.