Factories Act, 1948
4. Power to declare different departments to
be separate factories or two or more factories to be a single factory
The State Government may, 4[on its own or] on an
application made in this behalf by an occupier, direct, by an order in writing 4[and
subject to such conditions as it may deem fit], that for all or any of the
purposes of this act different departments or branches of a factory of the
occupier specified in the application shall be treated as separate factories or
that two or more factories of the occupier specified in the application shall
be treated as a single factory:]
19 [PROVIDED that no order under this section shall be
made by the State Government on its own motion unless an opportunity of being
heard is given to the occupier.]