{"id":266317,"date":"2022-05-02T17:00:54","date_gmt":"2022-05-02T11:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=266317"},"modified":"2022-05-06T09:22:40","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T03:52:40","slug":"whether-printing-press-is-a-manufacturing-process-under-employees-state-insurance-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2022\/05\/02\/whether-printing-press-is-a-manufacturing-process-under-employees-state-insurance-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Whether \u2018Printing Press\u2019 is a manufacturing process under Employees State Insurance Act? All HC answers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Allahabad High Court: \u00a0<\/strong>Stating that the word \u2018manufacturing process\u2019 has been expansively defined under the Factories Act even to include Printing Press activity as a manufacturing process whereas in common parlance Printing Press cannot be termed as a \u2018manufacturing process\u2019, Pankaj Bhatia, J., held that, the term \u2018manufacturing process\u2019 was added to the ESI Act after the 1989 Amendment, hence, there would be no application of the said term prior to the said amendment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Instant petition was filed to quash certain orders and recovery certificates whereby the demands had been quantified against the petitioners and they had been directed to pay the said amount in the exercise of the powers conferred under the Employees State Insurance Act, 1948.<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Factual Background<\/span><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The petitioner was an apex cooperative society created under Section 2(a\u20144) Clause 3 of the U.P. Cooperative Societies Act, 1965.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Further, it was stated that the rules, regulations and guidelines issued by the State Government were normally applicable to the employees of the petitioner\u2019s society and they enjoyed certain benefits which were admissible to the employees of the State Government.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Petitioner has been running P.C.F. Press and the persons employed in the accounts section were enjoying the benefits of the State Government from time to time which according to the petitioner were far superior to the benefits flowing to the persons who came under the \u2018ESI\u2019 Act.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 2003, respondent 1 issued a show-cause notice calling upon the petitioner to show cause as to why the petitioner\u2019s society should not be made liable for payment of the contribution to the ESI Fund, to which the petitioners raised their objections.<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Point for Consideration<\/span><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Whether the petitioners\u2019 establishment would be covered within the ambit of \u2018ESI Act\u2019 by virtue of the mandate of Section 1(4) of the ESI Act as the parties are not at issue that no notification has been issued under Section 1(5) of the Act?<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Analysis and Decision<\/span><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the present matter, the demand was raised for an amount of Rs 33,846 for the employer\u2019s contribution for the employees working in the account section of PCF Press for the period January 1981 to September 1986 and from January 1988 to May 1989.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hence, the demand pertaining to the period prior to 20-10-1989 when the definition of \u2018manufacturing process\u2019 under Section 2(14-AA) was inserted under the ESI Act.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After the amended Act No. 29 of 1989, the word \u2018manufacturing process\u2019 has been expansively defined under the Factories Act even to include Printing Press activity as a manufacturing process whereas in common parlance Printing Press cannot be termed as a &#8216;manufacturing process&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Therefore, the Court held that, the applicability of the provisions of &#8216;ESI Act&#8217; on the petitioner would clearly not be covered by Section 1(4) of the &#8216;ESI Act&#8217; for the period prior to 21-10-1989 and thus, the demand was not justified.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In view of the above discussion, petition was allowed. 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Employees State Insurance Corporation, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink\/uzI27O2f\"><b>2022 SCC OnLine All 227<\/b><\/a>, decided on 20-4-2022]<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Advocates before the Court:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Counsel for Petitioner:- Shireesh Kumar<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Counsel for Respondent:- Shishir Pradhan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allahabad High Court: \u00a0Stating that the word \u2018manufacturing process\u2019 has been expansively defined under the Factories Act even to include Printing Press <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8808,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[2510,2666,49319,49294,43658,29785,42834,49320,49321],"class_list":["post-266317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-casebriefs","category-highcourts","tag-Allahabad_High_Court","tag-employees","tag-employees-state-insurance","tag-esi-act","tag-factories-act","tag-law","tag-legal-news","tag-manufacturing-process","tag-printing-press"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Whether \u2018Printing Press\u2019 is a manufacturing process under Employees State Insurance Act? 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