law: Employees’ State Insurance Act, 1948
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  Short title, extent, commencement and application
  (1) This Act may be called the Employees' State Insurance
  
  Act,1948.
  (2) It extends to the whole of India 1[***].
  (3) It shall come into force on such 2date or dates
  
  as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette,
  
  appoint, and different dates may be appointed for different provisions of this
  
  Act and 3[ for different States or for different parts thereof].
  (4) It shall apply, in the first instance, to all factories
  
  (including factories belonging to the government) other than seasonal factories:
   4  [PROVIDED that nothing contained in this
  
  sub-section shall apply to a factory or establishment belonging to or under the
  
  control of the government whose employees are otherwise in receipt of benefits
  
  substantially similar or superior to the benefits provided under this Act.]
  (5) The appropriate government may, in consultation with the
  
  Corporation and 5[where the appropriate government is a State
  
  Government, with the approval of the Central Government], after giving six
  
  months’ notice of its intention of so doing by notification in the Official
  
  Gazette, extend the provisions of this Act or any of them, to any other
  
  establishment or class of establishments, industrial, commercial, agricultural
  
  or otherwise :
   6  [PROVIDED that where the provisions of this Act
  
  have been brought into force in any part of a State, the said provisions shall
  
  stand extended to any such establishment or class of establishments within that
  
  part if the provisions have already been extended to similar establishment or
  
  class of establishments in another part of that State.]
   4  [(6) A factory or an establishment to which this Act
  
  applies shall continue to be governed by this Act notwithstanding that the
  
  number of persons employed therein at any time falls below the limit specified
  
  by or under this Act or the manufacturing process therein ceases to be carried
  
  on with the aid of power.]