Power to declare different departments to be separate facto­ries or two or more factories to be a single factory

Power to declare different departments to be separate facto­ries or two or more factories to be a single factory :

Section – 4. The State Government may,[on its own or] on an application made in this behalf by an occupier, direct, by an order in writ­ing, [and subject to such conditions as it may deem fit], that for all or any of the purposes of this Act different departments or branches of a factory of the occupier specified in the appli­cation shall be treated as separate factories or that two or more factories of the occupier specified in the application shall be treated as a single factory:]

[Provided that no order under this section shall be made by the State Government on it own motion unless an opportunity of being heard is given to the occupier.]