The Factories Act 1934, 25 of 1934, (Rep., Act 63 of 1948) · 111 — .

Section 33. (1) The Local Government may make rules requiring

Repealed or not in force · As amended up to 2026-08

33. (1) The Local Government may make rules requiring Aadtttnnal Iwwt*r to make that in any specified faetary, wherein more thon one hundred I I V . ~ I ~ I I nnd and fifty workers are orclinarily employed, an adequate slielter [s"'rty ] rcl~tlng r't"J LUshall be provided for the use of workers during periods of rest, sl,c,ters dur:ng and such rules may prescribe the standards of such shelters. rest,-- - (2) The Local Governinent rnay also mnke rules-- rooms for (a) requving that in nny specified factory, wherein more cLILd.'"", than fifty women wor1tel.s are ordinarily employed, `s` suitable room sliall be reserved for the use of children uncler the age of six years belonging to such women, and (b) prescribing [AOT `xxv` Factories. ( b ) prescribing the standards for such rooms and the nature of tlic supcxviuion to be exercised uver the children therein. and the (3) The Local Government may also make rules, for any class of factories and for the whole or any part of the province, requiring that work on a manufacturing process carried on with the aid of power shall not be begun in any building or part of a building erected or taken into use as a factory after the commencement of this Act, until a certificate of stability in the prescribed form, signed by a person possessing the prescribed qualifications, has been sent to the Inspector. (4) Where the Governor General in Council is satisfied that any operation in a factory exposes any persons employed upon it to a serious risk of bodily injury, poisoning or disease, he may make rules applicable to any factory or class of factoriee in which the operation is carried on- - (a) specifying the operation and declaring it to be hazardous, ' - (b) prohibiting or restricting the employment of women, adolescents or children upon the operation, - adolescents or children upon the operation, - , (c) providing for the medical examination of persons eniplojed or seeking to be employed upon the operation and prohibiting the employment of persons not certsed as fit for such employment, and - (d) providing for the protection of all persons employed upon the operation or in the vicinit.~. 'of the places where it is carried on. CIHAPTER IV. O F `ADULTS.` ON WORKING HOURS O F RESTRICTIONS ON Weak~p horn. 34. No adult worker shall be allowed to work in a factory for more than fifty-four hours in any week, or, where the factory is a seasonal one, for more than sixty hours in any week : Provided that an adult worker in a non-seasonal factory engaged in work which for technical reasons must be continuous throughout the day may work for fifty-six hours in any week. Weekly 35. (1) No adult worker shall be allowed to work in a holidap. fac.tory on a Sunday unless- - (a) he has had or will have a holiday for a whole day on one of the three days immediately before or after that Sunday, and (b) the Pactories. '+ e I &P 1934.3 (b) the manager of the factory has, before that Sunday or the substituted day, whichever is, earlier,- . . , (?) delivered ,z notice to the office of the Inspector of his intention to require the worker to work on the Sunday and of the day which is to be substituted, and (ii) displayed a notice to that effect in the factory: Provided that no substitution shall bo made which will result in 'any worker working for more than ten days consecutively without a holiday for a whole day. (2) Notices given under sub-section (I) may be cancelled by a notice delivered to the office of the Inspector and a notice displayed in the factory not later than the day before the Sunday or the holiday to be cancelled, whichever is earlier. (3) Where, in accordance with the provisions of wb-section (I), any worlrer worlrs on a Sunday and has had a holiday on .one of the three days immediately before it, that Sunday shall, for the purpose of calculating his weekly hours of work, `be` included in the preceding week. .

Source: India Code