Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Factory, etc., not to be newly established without permission of the Commissioner.— (1) No person shall newly establish in any premises any factory, workshop or workplace in which it is intended that steam, water, 1[electrical] or other mechanical power shall be employed, without the previous written permission of the Commissioner, 2[nor shall any person work, or allow to be worked, any such factory, workshop or work-place without such permission]: 3[Provided that, no such permission shall be required in respect of the factories, workshop or work- place in the area, notified by the Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation, within the jurisdiction of the corporation.] (2) The Commissioner may refuse to give such permission if he shall be of opinion that the establishment of such factory, workshop or work-place in the proposed position is objectionable by reason of the density of the population in the neighbourhood thereof, or will be a nuisance to the inhabitants of the neighbourhood. 4[(3) If any written permission for the establishment of a factory, workshop or work-place granted under sub-section (1) be revoked by the Commissioner in the exercise of his powers under sub-section 1 This word was inserted by Mah. 21 of 1989, s. 45. 2 These words were inserted by Bom. 1 of 1916, s. 11(a). 3 This proviso was added by Mah. 23 of 2016, s. 2. 4 Sub-section (3) was added by Bom. 1 of 1916, s. 11(b). 316 The Mumbai Municipal Corporation Act [1888 : III (3) of section 479, no person shall continue or resume the working or use of such factory, workshop or work-place until such written permission is renewed or a fresh written permission is granted by the Commissioner.]