Repealed or not in force · As amended up to 2026-08
59. The Indian Factories Act, 1881, and the Indian Factories Act, 1891, are hereby repealed:
Provided that all appointments made and all certificates given under the said Acts shall be deemed to have been made or given under this Act.
SCHEDULE I.
(See sections 21, 22, 30.)
PART A.
[See sections 21 (2), (3); 22 (3); 30.]
WORK OF AN URGENT NATURE OR SUCH AS IN THE INTERESTS OF EFFICIENCY IS COMMONLY PERFORMED WHILE THE MAIN MANUFACTURING PROCESS OF THE FACTORY IS DISCONTINUED.
(a) Work by the supervising staff, clerks, watchmen or messengers;
(b) work in the mechanic shop, the smithy or foundry, the boiler-house, the engine-room or power-house, or in connection with the mill-gearing, the electric driving or lighting apparatus, mechanical or electrical lifts, or the steam or water pipes or pumps;
(c) work on the cleaning of walls, ceilings or other portions of factory buildings, tanks, wells, humidifying or ventilating apparatus, tunnels, blow-room flues or line-shaft alleys or of galleries in ginning factories;
(d) work by persons engaged in oiling, examining or repairing or in supervising or aiding in the oiling, examination or repair of any machinery or other thing whatsoever which is necessary for the carrying on of the work in a factory.
Explanation.
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Explanation.—Periodical cleaning is not included in the terms "examining" or "repairing;"
(e) work on the processes of packing, bundling or baling of finished articles or the receiving or despatching of goods.
PART B.
[See section 21 (2), (3).]
WORK NECESSITATING CONTINUOUS PRODUCTION FOR TECHNICAL REASONS IN THE FOLLOWING FACTORIES, NAMELY:—
- Tanneries.
- Sugar refineries.
- Breweries.
- Distilleries.
- Oil refineries.
- Oil mills.
- Cement works.
- Cloth-printing works.
- Bleaching and dyeing works.
- Carbonic acid gas works.
- Chemical works.
- Glass works.
- Paper mills.
- Shellac factories.
- Potteries.
- Blast furnaces, ore smelting works, or works for the manufacture of iron or steel or other metals.
Source: India Code