Section 2. In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context,

(1) "child" means a person who is under the "Child." age of fourteen years: (2) Nothing in sub-section (1) shall apply to work on urgent repairs executed in railway or tramway workshops or running sheds or in engineering works or ship-repairing works. Chapter VIII: . PENALTIES AND PROCEDURE. | Section 2: (1) Where the occupier or manager of a factory is charged with an offence against this Act, he shall Exemption of occupier or manager 156 Factories. [ACT XII (Chapter VIII CHAPTER VIII. PENALTIES AND PROCEDURE. Penalties. 41. If in any factory— (a) any person is employed or allowed to work contrary to any of the provisions of this Act; (b) any 1911.] Factories. 155 (Chapter VIII.—Penalties and Procedure.) (b) any of the provisions of section 9 are not complied with; (c) latrine or urinal accommodation in accordance with the provisions of section 13 is not provided; (d) a supply of water for the persons employed is not maintained in accordance with the provisions of section 14; (e) any door is constructed in contravention of section 15; (f) any of the provisions of section 18, subsections (1), (3) and (4), regarding fencing and the protection from danger of persons employed in attending to the machinery or boilers are not complied with; (g) any order of an inspector under section 10, section 11, section 12, section 16 or section 18 is not complied with; (h) the register prescribed by section 35 is not kept up to date; (i) any of the provisions of section 36 are not complied with; (j) any notice or return required by this Act or by rules made thereunder to be furnished is not furnished; the occupier and manager shall be jointly and severally liable to a fine which may extend to two hundred rupees: "Occupier." (6) "occupier" includes a managing agent or other person authorised to represent the occupier: "Prescribed." (7) "prescribed" means prescribed by this Act or by rules made thereunder: "System of shifts." (8) "system of shifts" means a system of relays in which the time of the beginning and ending of the period or periods of the employment of each person is fixed for each relay: "Textile factory." (9) "textile factory" means a factory wherein is carried on any process for, or incidental to, making, altering, repairing, ornamenting, finishing or otherwise adapting for use, for transport or for sale 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 the term "textile factory" shall not be deemed to include the following factories, namely:— 1911.] Factories. 139 (Chapter I.—Preliminary.) namely:—cloth-printing works, bleaching and dyeing works, lace warehouses, paper mills, flax scutch mills, silk filatures, factories for ginning cotton, decorticating fibre, pressing cotton, jute or other fibre, rope works and hat works.