3C- Certificate of Stability – for Factory Building Gujarat

No manufacturing process shall be carried out in any premises of a factory constructed or extended or in any premises which has been taken into use as a factory or part of a factory until a Stability Certificate issued by a competent person of every work of engineering construction in the Form 1-A has been sent by the Occupier of the factory to the Chief Inspector of Factories, and accepted by him:

Provided that, for the factories, which are in existence on the date of coming into forces of these rules, the certificate of stability in Form 1-A, may be sent to the chief Inspector of Factories within 3 months from the date of publication of this notification:

Provided further that no manufacturing process shall be carried out in any premises of a factory unless a fresh certificate of stability in Form 1-A is obtained from a competent person once in each period of 5 years or after extension, repairs or addition of machinery, plant, etc. and sent to the Chief Inspector of Factories:

Provided also that the foregoing provisions are without prejudice to the provision of sections 39 and 40 of the Fact. Act.

Explanation – ” Work of Engineering Construction” means any building, tank silo, scaffold, platform, chimney, Bridge, supporting Structural work retaining wall or any similar structure.

3A. Certificate of Stability – Daman, Diu, Silvassa, Dadra Nagar Haveli, And Maharashtra

No manufacturing process shall be carried out in any premises of a factory constructed, reconstructed or extended or in any premises which has been taken into use as a factory or part of a factory until a certificate of Stability issued by a competent person in respect of every work of engineering construction in the Form1-A has been sent by the Occupier of the factory to the Chief Inspector of Factories, and approved by him: Provided that, for the factories, which are in existence on the date of the notification of these rules, the certificate of stability in Form1-A. may be sent to the Inspector of Factories within 3 months from the date of notification: Provided further that no manufacturing process shall be carried out in any premises of a factory unless a fresh certificate of stability in Form 1-A is obtained from a competent person once in each period of 5 years or after extension, alteration, repairs or addition of any work of engineering construction or replacement or addition of machinery, plant, etc., and sent to the Chief Inspector:

Provided also that the foregoing provisions are without prejudice to the provision of sections 39 and 40 of the Factories Act.

As per the Factory act, any building which is to be used as factory building is required to have the approval of factory building plan, for that you need the stability certificate for factory building, The stability certificate is required for taking Factory Building Plan approval from the Chief Inspector of Factories, The Engineer signing the certificate has to have a 10-year experience. Now this building plan approval is mandatory for issuing License for factory.

Factories are mandated to obtain Building Stability Certificate once in 3 years and Installation/Construction Certificates every once after revised approval is obtained. We shall visit your factory and issue the relevant certificates after due inspection.