{"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":"27","heading":"Prohibition of employment of women and children near cotton-openers","text":"No woman or child shall be employed in any part of a factory for pressing cotton in which a cotton opener is at work: Provided that if the feed-end of a cotton-opener is in a room separated from the delivery end by a partition extending to the roof or to such height as the Inspector may in any particular case specify in writing, women and children may be employed on the side of the partition where the feed-end is situated. 1. Ins. by Act 94 of 1976, s. 12 (w.e.f. 26-10-1976). 2. Subs. by Act 20 of 1987, s. 11, for \"eighteen inches\" (w.e.f. 1-12-1987). 3. Subs. by Act 25 of 1954, s. 7, for \"sub-section (1)\" (w.e.f. 7-5-1954). 4. Subs. by s. 7, ibid., for \"sub-section (3)\" (w.e.f. 7-5-1954).","html":"<p>No woman or child shall be employed in any part of a factory for pressing cotton in which a cotton opener is at work: Provided that if the feed-end of a cotton-opener is in a room separated from the delivery end by a partition extending to the roof or to such height as the Inspector may in any particular case specify in writing, women and children may be employed on the side of the partition where the feed-end is situated. 1. Ins. by Act 94 of 1976, s. 12 (w.e.f. 26-10-1976). 2. Subs. by Act 20 of 1987, s. 11, for &quot;eighteen inches&quot; (w.e.f. 1-12-1987). 3. Subs. by Act 25 of 1954, s. 7, for &quot;sub-section (1)&quot; (w.e.f. 7-5-1954). 4. Subs. by s. 7, ibid., for &quot;sub-section (3)&quot; (w.e.f. 7-5-1954).</p>","words":130,"text_source":"ocr"},"classification":[],"instruments":[],"judgments":[],"corresponds_to":[],"url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/factories-act-1948-bihar/section/27/","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."}