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Punjab Factories (Control of Dismantling) Rules, 1950

Published vide Punjab Government Notification No. 7130-LP-50/5340, dated the 7th October, 1950

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  1. These rules may be called the Punjab Factories (Control of Dismantling) Rules, 1950.
  2. (1) Every manager or owner of the factory is required to keep and maintain up-to date registers in forms A and B appended to these rules containing full particulars of all the machinery in the factory and of all spare parts in stock, consumed or condemned from time to time. These registers shall be open to inspection by an officer authorised under section 5(1).

(2) An application for permission to dismantle a factory shall be made on form C appended to these rules by the manager or owner of the factory concerned to the Director of Industries, Punjab, and shall be supported by statement of the material facts and reasons necessitating the dismantling of the factory or removal of machinery or parts thereof, except temporary removal within the premises of the factory for purposes, such as adjustment, cleaning and repairs.

(3) On receipt of such an application, the Director of Industries may cause any enquiries considered necessary or expedient to be made through an officer authorised under section 5(1) and may grant permission to the manager or owner of the factory to dismantle the factory or to remove the factory or a part thereof from one place to another within the State or to a place outside the State keeping in view the paucity of raw materials for the factory or lack of demand for the goods produced by the factory, or unsuitability of the factory at that site or for any other suitable reasons, or he may refuse to accord such permission in the public interest and inform the applicant accordingly.

  1. (1) For the purposes of carrying out the provisions of section 5 an officer authorised under section 5(1) may enter a factory between the hours of sunrise and sunset.

(2) An officer who enters a factory under the foregoing rule shall, if he finds the factory being dismantled, call upon the manager or owner of the factory and the persons dismantling the factory to desist from doing so and, in the event of non-compliance, shall report the case to the Director of Industries for taking such suitable action as the latter may consider necessary.

  1. (1) The manager or owner of the factory aggrieved by an order of the Director of Industries refusing permission to dismantle a factory may appeal to the State Government.

(2) Such appeal be filed within thirty days of the receipt of the order in question.

Form A

Serial No. Name of Machinery Number of Machinery Boiler rating or horse-power of the machine Name of maker Year and makers Year and No. of makers Date of installation of the Machinery
               

 

Form B

Serial No. Name of spare parts Name of machinery to which the spare parts are to be fitted Number of parts Date and No. of parts fitted to machinery Date and number of parts added to stock Balance in hand
             

 

Form C

  1. Name and Address of factory __________________________________

________________________________________________________

  1. Details of existing machinery ___________________________________
  2. Details of machinery required to be removed _______________________
  3. Reasons for dismantling ______________________________________
  4. Where will be the machinery installed, if it is allowed to be dismantled ____
  5. Remarks, if any __________________________

Signature of the applicant

Dated_____________________