THE FACTORIES ACT, 1934

Prepared by: Rubina shaheen

THE FACTORIES ACT, 1934

(1) This Act may be called the Factories Act,1934.

(2) It extends to the whole of Pakistan.

(3) Its come into force on the 1st day of January 1935.
 INTRODUCTION
 YOUNG

 ADULT

 CHILD

 DAY

 WEEK

 POWER

 WORKER

 FACTORY

 MACHINERY
Definitions
 Young: 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 of Saturday night.

 Power: means electric energy, and any other form of energy which is mechanically

transmitted.
Manufacturing process:

means any process for making, altering, repairing, or ornamenting, finishing or

packing, or otherwise treating any article or substance with a view to its use, sale,
transport, delivery or disposal, or for pumping oil, water or sewage, or for generating,
transforming or transmitting power.
Worker: means a person employed directly or through an agency whether for wages or
not in any manufacturing process, or in cleaning any part of the machinery or premises
used for a manufacturing process.
Factory: means any buildings, including the boundaries, where ten or

more workers are working, or were working on any day of the

proceeding twelve months, and in any part of which manufacturing
process is being carried on or is ordinarily carried on with or without the
aid of power, but does not include a mine, subject to the operation of the
Mines Act, 1923 (IV of 1923)
 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:

Provided that where the affairs of factory are entrusted to a managing agent, such agent shall be

deemed to be the occupier of the factory ;

 Relay & Shift: 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 called a "shift“.

 Prescribed: means rules made by the Provincial Government under this Act.
Inspectors
 The Provincial Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint such persons as it

thinks fit to be Inspectors for the purposes of this Act within such local limits ,as it may assign to
them respectively. Every District Magistrate shall be an Inspector for his district. The Provincial
Government may also, by notification said, appoint such public officers as it thinks fit to be additional
Inspectors for all or any of the purposes of the Act, within such local limits as it may assign to them
respectively.
 Powers of Inspector: Enter with such assistants (if any), being persons in the service of any place

which is used as a factory or capable of being declared to be a factory under the provisions of
section….
Health and Safety
 Cleanliness

 Disposal of wastes & overflows

 Ventilation & Temperature

 Dust & Fumes

 Artificial Humidification

 Over crowding

 Lighting

 Drinking Water

 Vaccination

 Welfare officer
Safety of Workers

Employment on Dangerous Machines

Cutting of Power
Cotton opener
Precautions against Fire
Machinery in motion
Floor, stairs, & means of access
Precaution of eyes
Working Hours of Adults
 An adult worker: shall allowed to work in a factory for not more than 9 hours a day.

And 10 hours a day for seasonal factory.

 Weekly Hours: A worker shall not be allowed to work for more than 48 hours in a

weekend for seasonal factory 50 hours in a week shall be allowed to work for male
adult worker If for technical reasons a work continues throughout the day a worker
may be allowed to work for 56 hours in a week (sec 34).
 Interval for rest: If work continues for 6 hours than 1 after that interval for one

hours is given If the work continues for hours in shifts than then after every 5
hours30 minutes two intervals must be give to a worker.
 Double employment: An adult worker is not allowed to work in another factory except under few

specified circumstances ( sec 48)

 Over Time: If a worker has worked for more than 9 hours in day or 48 hours in a week he shall be

entitled to pay at the rate twice his ordinary rate of pay.

Child Worker Working Hours:
 No child who has not completed his 14thyear shall be allowed to work in any factory.

 Not be allowed to work for more than 5 hours in a factory

 No child shall be allowed to work except between 6a.m to 7p.m

 Children's are not allowed to work on any cotton opener. or can not work on dangerous machines.

Proper register should be maintained for children

Working hours of Women Worker
 Women workers are not be allowed to clean, lubricate, or adjust any part of machinery

(sec27).
 A women are not be allowed or required to work for more than9 hours in a day(sec 36)

 A women shall be allowed to work between 6a.m to 10p.m provided that transport is

available (sec45)
 A separate room for use of women where 50 or more women worker is working
Holidays with Pay

 Annual holidays: A Worker who has completed 12 months continues services

allowed for 14 days consecutives holidays with full pay(sec49)

 Casual Leave: Every worker shall be entitled casual leave for 10days in a year Sick

leave: Sixteen days sick leave on half average pay in a year.

 Festival holidays: Every worker shall be allowed with pay and all declared festival

holidays by provincial government.

 Compensatory Holidays: When a worker is deprived of any of the weekly holidays

he shall be allowed holidays of equal number to the holidays so lost(sec 35A)