RAMACHANDRA RAJU, J.

( 1 ) THESE four are connected appeals filed under Sec. 82 of the employees State Insurance Act, 1948 (hereinafter called the Act ). They raise a common question whether the Head office at Jambagh, Hyderabad of the a P State Co-operative Marketing federation Limited (hereinafter called the federation ) answers the description of a shop within the meaning of G 0 Ms. No 297, Health, dated 25th March, 1975 issued under Sub-section (5) of sec 1 of the Act. The said notification extended with effect from 30th March, 1975, all the provisions of the said Act to the classes of establishments specified in Column (1) of the Schedule mentioned therein in the areas specified in Column (2) thereof. In terms of the said notification. shops where twenty or more persons are employed for wages on any day of the preceding twelve months situated within the municipal limits of the corporations of Hyderabad and Secunderabad and Secunderabad Cantonment are brought within the purview of the Act. The federation, besides its other activities which will be shortly noticed, owns a rice bran oil factory (solvent extraction factory) at Vijayawada; one groundnut solvent extraction f

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