Rule 70. Certificate of Stability

Chapter IX — Special ProvisionsMade under The Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020No. GHR/2025/76/FAC/142021/68396/M3, 6 Jun 2025

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(1) No manufacturing process shall be carried out in any premises of a factory constructed, reconstructed, altered, repaired or extended or increase in machinery or change in process in any existing factory until a Certificate of Stability in Form 32 in respect thereof, has been submitted to office of the Inspector-cum-Facilitator of factories.
(2) Certificate of Stability" in Form 32 shall be signed by Competent Person along with the tests, load calculation and analysis reports relating to stability:
Provided further that no manufacturing process shall be carried out in any premises of'a factory unless a fresh certificate of stability in Form 32 is obtained from a competent person once in each period of five years or after every extension, alteration, repairs or addition of machinery, plants etc. and sent to the Chief Inspector-cum-Facilitator of factories:
Provided also that. the foregoing provisions are without prejudice to the provisions of rules 48, 49.
Explanation: - "Work of engineering construction" means any building tank silo, scaffold, platform, chimney. bridge, supporting structural work, retaining wall or any similar structure.

Source: The Gujarat Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Rules, 2025, No. GHR/2025/76/FAC/142021/68396/M3 — the official copy of the notification, p. 70 of the PDF. Open our copy at p. 70 · official download · all sources

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