{"act":{"id":"factories-act-1948-bihar","short_title":"The Factories Act, 1948","long_title":null,"act_number":"63","act_year":1948,"enact_date":null,"enforcement_date":null,"ministry":null,"department":null,"jurisdiction":"Bihar","unit":"section","section_count":125,"in_force":true,"spent":false,"spent_note":null,"duplicate_of":null,"text_source":"ocr","scan_url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/scan/95a48c2f-32e3-4ab3-ae03-ece0be734d0c.pdf","url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/factories-act-1948-bihar/"},"unit":"section","section":{"number":"111","heading":"Obligations of workers","text":"(1) No worker in a factory- (a) shall willfully interfere with or misuse any appliance, convenience or other thing provided in a factory for the purposes of securing the health, safety or welfare of the workers therein; (b) shall willfully and without reasonable cause do anything likely to endanger himself or others; and (c) shall willfully neglect to make use of any appliance or other thing provided in the factory for the purposes of securing the health or safety of the workers therein. (2) If any worker employed in a factory contravenes any of the provisions of this section or of any rule or order made thereunder, he shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three months, or with fine which may extend to one hundred rupees, or with both. 1[111A. Right of workers, etc .- Every worker shall have the right to- (i) obtain from the occupier, information relating to workers' health and safety at work, (ii) get trained within the factory wherever possible, or, to get himself sponsored by the occupier for getting trained at a training center or institute, duly approved by the Chief Inspector, where training is imparted for workers' health and safety at work, (iii) represent to the Inspector directly or through his representative in the matter of inadequate provision for protection of his health or safety in the factory.]","html":"<p>(1) No worker in a factory- (a) shall willfully interfere with or misuse any appliance, convenience or other thing provided in a factory for the purposes of securing the health, safety or welfare of the workers therein; (b) shall willfully and without reasonable cause do anything likely to endanger himself or others; and (c) shall willfully neglect to make use of any appliance or other thing provided in the factory for the purposes of securing the health or safety of the workers therein. (2) If any worker employed in a factory contravenes any of the provisions of this section or of any rule or order made thereunder, he shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three months, or with fine which may extend to one hundred rupees, or with both. 1[111A. Right of workers, etc .- Every worker shall have the right to- (i) obtain from the occupier, information relating to workers' health and safety at work, (ii) get trained within the factory wherever possible, or, to get himself sponsored by the occupier for getting trained at a training center or institute, duly approved by the Chief Inspector, where training is imparted for workers' health and safety at work, (iii) represent to the Inspector directly or through his representative in the matter of inadequate provision for protection of his health or safety in the factory.]</p>","words":230,"text_source":"ocr"},"classification":[],"instruments":[],"judgments":[],"corresponds_to":[],"url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/factories-act-1948-bihar/section/111/","note":null,"source_note":"Read from the Government's own scanned gazette with Azure Document Intelligence, then split into sections by their numbering. India Code publishes no text for this Act. The scan itself is mirrored into our own storage and served at /scan/95a48c2f-32e3-4ab3-ae03-ece0be734d0c.pdf, so the reading here can be checked against the page it came from without depending on India Code's own copy staying where it is (it was at https://indiacode.gov.in/server/api/core/bitstreams/cba8f9ed-af73-4552-953f-6602e41c3554/content).","judgments_note":"Judgment holdings are the ratio decidendi as extracted from the order by eCourts India, reproduced unaltered. Reported judgments only.","licence":"Published with commentary and other original matter under s.52(1)(q)(ii), Copyright Act 1957."}