The Government of Uttar Pradesh vide notification no. 1897(2)/LXXIX-V-I-20-1(ka)33-20 has inserted Section 5A to the Factories Act, 1948, granting the State Government with the power to exempt a factory from the provisions of the Act in the public interest. As per the amendment, the State Government by notification may temporarily exempt new factory or class of new factories whose commercial production starts within a period of one thousand days after the commencement of Factories (Uttar Pradesh Amendment) Act, 2020 from all or any provisions of the Act for a period of one thousand days from the date on which such production starts.
