1 THE FACTORIES ACT, 1948 _______ ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS ________ CHAPTER I PRELIMINARY SECTIONS 1

1 THE FACTORIES ACT, 1948 _______ ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS ________ CHAPTER I PRELIMINARY SECTIONS 1. Short title, extent and commencement. 2. Interpretation. 3. References to time of day. 4. Power to declare different departments to be separate factories or two or more factories to be a single factory. 5. Power to exempt during public emergency. 6. Approval, licensing and registration of factories (Extractive summary — verify with official source.)