Factories Act, 1948 (Act No. 63 of 1948).

This Act is enacted to consolidate and amend the law regulating labour in factories.
The State Government may make rules requiring: the submission of plans of any class or description of factories to the Chief Inspector or the State Government, the previous permission in writing of the State Government or the Chief Inspector to be obtained for the site on which the factory is to be situated and for the construction, the registration and licensing of factories (Section 6). Every occupier shall ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health, safety and welfare of all workers while they are at work in the factory (Section 7). No child who has not completed his fourteenth year shall be required or allowed to work in any factory (Section 67). The Act further makes provisions, inter alia, for: working hours, specific responsibility of the occupier in relation to hazardous processes, inspection, penalty for offences, etc