Factory Act
Title
Factories Act, 1934
Description
Factories Act 1934 extends to the whole of Pakistan. The Factories Act 1934, is the principal law, which regulates the working conditions in a factory. The need for this law is evident from its attributes as it defines all the elements of the factory workplace such as maintenance of health and safety conditions, regulating the working hours and environment, penalties for non-compliance and associated procedures etc.
Aims and objectives Factories Act, 1934 may briefly are stated as under:
• To consolidate and amend the law relating to labor in factories
• To protect the labor against industrial and occupational hazards
• To ensure healthy and sanitary condition in factories
• To ensure adequate safety measures and to promote health safety and welfare of the workers.
Definitions
• "Adolescent" means a person who has completed his fifteenth but has not completed his seventeenth year.
• "Adult" means a person who has completed his seventeenth year.
• "Child" means a person who has not completed his fifteenth year.
• "Day" means a period of twenty-four hours beginning at mid-night.
• "Week" means a period of seven days beginning at mid-night on Saturday night.
• "Power" means electric energy, and any other form of energy which is mechanically transmitted and is not generated by human or animal agency. • The term factory means any premises where a manufacturing process is being carried out (excluding mines). It is only applicable in those factories where 10 or more workers are employed.
• "Machinery" includes all plant whereby power is generated, transformed, transmitted or applied.
• "Occupier" of a factory means the person who has ultimate control over the affairs of the factory.
• where work of the same kind is carried out by two or more sets of workers working during different periods of the day, each of such sets is called a "relay" and the period or periods for which it works is
Factories Act, 1934
Description
Factories Act 1934 extends to the whole of Pakistan. The Factories Act 1934, is the principal law, which regulates the working conditions in a factory. The need for this law is evident from its attributes as it defines all the elements of the factory workplace such as maintenance of health and safety conditions, regulating the working hours and environment, penalties for non-compliance and associated procedures etc.
Aims and objectives Factories Act, 1934 may briefly are stated as under:
• To consolidate and amend the law relating to labor in factories
• To protect the labor against industrial and occupational hazards
• To ensure healthy and sanitary condition in factories
• To ensure adequate safety measures and to promote health safety and welfare of the workers.
Definitions
• "Adolescent" means a person who has completed his fifteenth but has not completed his seventeenth year.
• "Adult" means a person who has completed his seventeenth year.
• "Child" means a person who has not completed his fifteenth year.
• "Day" means a period of twenty-four hours beginning at mid-night.
• "Week" means a period of seven days beginning at mid-night on Saturday night.
• "Power" means electric energy, and any other form of energy which is mechanically transmitted and is not generated by human or animal agency. • The term factory means any premises where a manufacturing process is being carried out (excluding mines). It is only applicable in those factories where 10 or more workers are employed.
• "Machinery" includes all plant whereby power is generated, transformed, transmitted or applied.
• "Occupier" of a factory means the person who has ultimate control over the affairs of the factory.
• where work of the same kind is carried out by two or more sets of workers working during different periods of the day, each of such sets is called a "relay" and the period or periods for which it works is