Rule 83. Power to apply the Code to certain premises

(1) The State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare that all or any of the provisions of this Code shall apply to any place where in a manufacturing process is carried on with or without the aid of power or is so ordinarily carried on, notwithstanding that—

(a) the number of persons employed therein is less than twenty, if working with the aid of power and less than forty if working without the aid of power, or;

(b) the persons working there in are not employed by the owner thereof but are working with the permission of, or under agreement with, such owner:

Provided that the manufacturing process is not being carried on by the owner only with the aid of his family. After aplace is so declared, it shall be deemed to be afactory for the purposes of this Code, and the owner shall be deemed to be the occupier, and any person working therein, a worker.