The Factories Act

Short title, extent and commencement

Interpretation

References to time of day

Power to declare different departments to be separate factories or two or more factories to be a  single factory

Power to exempt during public emergency

Approval, licensing and registration of factories

Notice by occupier


PRELIMINARY


In this Act references to time of day are references to Indian Standard
Time, being five and a half hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time:

Provided that for any area in which Indian Standard Time is not ordinarily observed the State
Government may make rules--

(a) specifying the area,

(b) defining the local mean time ordinarily observed therein, and

(c) permitting such time to be observed in all or any of the factories situated in the area.

LAWGIST

# 3 References to time of day