{"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":"49","heading":"Welfare officers","text":"(1) In every factory wherein five hundred or more workers are ordinarily employed the occupier shall employ in the factory such number of welfare officers as may be prescribed. (2) The State Government may prescribe the duties, qualifications and conditions of service of officers employed under sub-section (1). STATE AMENDMENTS Karnataka Amendment of section 49 .- In section 49 of the principal Act,- (1) in sub-section (1), for the words \"five hundred\" the words \"two hundred\" shall be substituted; (2) after sub-section (1), the following shall be inserted, namely :- \"(1A) In every factory where two hundred or more women workers are ordinarily employed the occupier shall employ in the factory, such number of female supervisors, as may be prescribed.\" [Vide Karnataka Act 1 of 2003, s. 3].","html":"<p>(1) In every factory wherein five hundred or more workers are ordinarily employed the occupier shall employ in the factory such number of welfare officers as may be prescribed. (2) The State Government may prescribe the duties, qualifications and conditions of service of officers employed under sub-section (1). STATE AMENDMENTS Karnataka Amendment of section <a href=\"/factories-act-1948-bihar/section/49/\">49</a> .- In section 49 of the principal Act,- (1) in sub-section (1), for the words &quot;five hundred&quot; the words &quot;two hundred&quot; shall be substituted; (2) after sub-section (1), the following shall be inserted, namely :- &quot;(1A) In every factory where two hundred or more women workers are ordinarily employed the occupier shall employ in the factory, such number of female supervisors, as may be prescribed.&quot; [Vide Karnataka Act 1 of 2003, s. 3].</p>","words":128,"text_source":"ocr"},"classification":[],"instruments":[],"judgments":[],"corresponds_to":[],"url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/factories-act-1948-bihar/section/49/","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."}