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(1) Whenever it shall appear to the Commissioner- (a) that any factory, work-shop, or work-place, or any building or place in which steam, water, electrical or mechanical power is employed or any bakery is not kept in a cleanly state or is not ventilated in such a manner as to render harmless, as far as practicable, any gas, vapour, soot, dust or other impurity generated in the course of the work carried on therein, which is a nuisance or is so overcrowded while work is carried on as to be dangerous or injurious to the health of the persons employed therein; or (b) that any engine, mill-gearing, hoist or other machinery therein is so fixed or so insecurely fenced as to be dangerous to life or limb, the Commissioner may, by written notice, require the owner of such factory, work-shop, work-place or other building or place or bakery to take such order for putting and maintaining the same in a cleanly state, or for ventilating the same, or for preventing the same from being overcrowded or for preventing dangerous to life or limb from any engine, mill gearing, hoist or other machinery therein, as he shall think fit. New factories. Furnaces used in trade or manufacture to consume their own smoke. Sanitary regulation of factories, etc. 1949 : Bom. LIX ] Gujarat Provincial Municipal Corporations Act, 1949 261 (2) Nothing in this rule shall be deemed to affect any provision of the Indian Boilers Act, 1923, and nothing in this section which relates to fixing or fencing of any engine, mill-gearing, hoist or other machinery shall apply to any factory to which the provisions of the Factories Act, 1948, are applicable.