Many Factories Act question banks still circulate, but the Act was repealed on 21 November 2025. This free quiz turns the classic Factories Act topics into thirteen questions on what the OSH Code, 2020 now says, with the section for every answer.
From the Factories Act to the OSH Code
For more than seventy years the Factories Act, 1948 set the rules on health, safety, welfare, working hours and leave in Indian factories. Section 143 of the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020 repealed it, together with twelve other central laws including the Building and Other Construction Workers Act, 1996, from the date the Code came into force: 21 November 2025. Rules, notifications and orders made under the repealed Acts are deemed made under the Code and stay in force to the extent they are not contrary to it, until they are repealed. The Government said the same: during the transition, the existing rules continue to remain in force.
So a quiz on «the Factories Act» today should test what still holds and what has moved. The Code keeps much of the old structure, now under one law for all establishments, and changes several numbers.
What the quiz covers
- the repeal and the savings clause (section 143);
- the new definition of factory: 20 or more workers with power, 40 or more without (previously 10 and 20), unless an older State law sets other numbers (section 2(1)(w));
- annual leave with wages after 180 days of work instead of 240, at one day for every 20 days (section 32);
- overtime at twice the ordinary rate and only with the worker's consent (section 27), and no more than six working days a week (section 26);
- welfare thresholds: a canteen from 100 workers including contract labour, crèche rules above 50 workers, a welfare officer from 250 (section 24).
Practice MCQs, not exam answers
These are practice questions written by Quizhat from the Gazette text of the Code and Government of India releases. They are not the questions of any university, State or recruitment exam, and Quizhat is not affiliated with the Ministry of Labour and Employment, DGFASLI or any State labour department. Rules under the Code can add details that differ by State; check the rules of your State before relying on a figure at work.