https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=198259 A prior statutory reference to the Factories Act, 1934 was construed as a reference to the Factories Act, 1948 under Section 8 of the General Clauses Act, because the earlier enactment had been repealed and re-enacted and no contrary intention appeared. On that basis, the employee was treated as a workman. The occupational disease provisions were also read broadly: "any process involving the use of lead" was held not to be confined to manufacturing or transformation, and an impositor's work arranging and fixing lead bars for printing was treated as a real use of lead within Schedule III. The lead poisoning was therefore covered by Section 3(2), and compensation was payable. en-us Wed, 17 Mar 1954 00:00:00 +0530 Sat, 27 Jan 2018 11:13:36 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=198259 A prior statutory reference to the Factories Act, 1934 was construed as a reference to the Factories Act, 1948 under Section 8 of the General Clauses Act, because the earlier enactment had been repealed and re-enacted and no contrary intention appeared. On that basis, the employee was treated as a workman. The occupational disease provisions were also read broadly: "any process involving the use of lead" was held not to be confined to manufacturing or transformation, and an impositor's work arranging and fixing lead bars for printing was treated as a real use of lead within Schedule III. The lead poisoning was therefore covered by Section 3(2), and compensation was payable. Case-Laws Companies Law Wed, 17 Mar 1954 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=198259