Definition of "factory"
Section 175 of the Act defines "factory" as premises in which persons are employed in manual labour in any process for or incidental to:
- Making any article or part of any article;
- Altering, repairing, ornamenting, finishing, cleaning, or washing, or breaking up or demolition of any article;
- Adapting any article for sale;
- Slaughtering of cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, asses or mules; or
- In some circumstances, confinement of such animals awaiting slaughter at other premises.
The Act also defines certain other specific premises as "factories" such as laundries and printing works (s. 175(2)).
Read more about this topic: Factories Act 1961
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