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Meera Auto Components Ltd runs a factory in Pune and has engaged trade apprentices for training on its shop floor. Under the central text of the Apprentices Act, 1961, which Factories Act, 1948 provisions apply to the health, safety and welfare of these apprentices?

Chapters III, IV and V of the Factories Act, 1948 apply to apprentices training in a factory. Section 14 treats them as if they were workers under that Act, so the Act's health, safety and welfare protections cover them even though they are trainees.

  1. AChapters III, IV and V, treating apprentices as if they were workersCorrect
  2. BChapters I and II only, treating apprentices as occupiers
  3. CChapter V only, treating apprentices as managers
  4. DNo provisions of the Factories Act, as apprentices are trainees and not workers

Explanation

Section 14 provides that where apprentices train in a factory, Chapters III, IV and V of the Factories Act, 1948 apply to their health, safety and welfare as if they were workers within the meaning of that Act. The option saying that trainees are outside the Factories Act is wrong because the section expressly deems them workers for these chapters.

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