The Factories (Maharashtra Amendment) Act, 2006

1. This Act may be called the Factories (Maharashtra Amendment) Act, 2006.

2. In section 2 of the Factories Act, 1948, in its application to the State of Maharashtra, in clause (m),— (a) after the words “restaurant or eating place” the words and letter “or a poly house or green house engaged in the activity of floriculture or pomology or High Value Crops” shall be added ; (b) after Explanation II, the following Explanation shall be added, namely:— “Explanation III.—For the purposes of this clause, the term “High Value Crops” shall mean and include,— (i) Plantation of fruits, flowers and vegetables in a green house or shed-net house ; (ii) Plantation of exotic fruits, flowers and vegetables ; (iii) Plantation of crops by use of bio-technology ; (iv) Plantation of medicinal and aromatic plants and processing industry ; (v) Production of mushroom and processing industry ; (vi) Production of fruits by micro-drip irrigation by use of plastic and mulching ; (vii) Nurseries and processing industry where vegetables are produced in a green house ; (viii) Nursery of ornamental plants ;”.