law: Factories Act, 1948 
  85. Power to apply the Act to certain premises 
  (1) The State Government may, by notification in the Official 
  
  Gazette, declare that all or any of the provisions of this Act shall apply to 
  
  any place wherein a manufacturing process is carried on with or without the aid 
  
  of power or is so ordinarily carried on, notwithstanding that
  ( i ) the number of 
  
  persons employed therein is less than ten, if working with the aid of power and 
  
  less than twenty if working without the aid of power, or
  (ii) the persons working therein 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.
  (2) After a place is so declared, it shall be deemed to be a 
  
  factory for the purposes of this Act, and the owner shall be deemed to be the 
  
  occupier, and any person working therein, a worker.
  Explanation   : For the purposes of 
  
  this section, "owner" shall include a lessee or mortgagee with possession of the 
  
  premises.