Hari Lal Agrawal, J.

1. This miscellaneous appeal has been filed by the appellants under section 82 (2) of the Employees State Insurance Act, 1948 (to be referred hereinafter as the Act) against an order of the Employees insurance Court. The appellants are the employers and officers of M/s. Heavy engineering Corporation Ltd. (to be referred hereinafter as H. E C. ).

2. The relevant facts giving rise to this appeal may be briefly stated as follows. The H. E. C. has five factories separately registered under the Factories act as separate unite and they are:-

(1) The Heavy Machines Building plant, (2) The Foundry Forge plant, (3) The Heavy Machine Tools plant, (4) The Central Training Institutes, and (5) The Central Transport Carriage. Each of the above units is also reparately registered under section 2-A of the Act. The case of the company is that all the aforesaid five factories are administered by its office at Dhurwa, Ranchi, which is a distinct and separte establishment from its five units aforesaid and, therefore, the provisions of the act will have no application to employees working in this establishment. Section 1 (4) of the Act provides that the provisions of the Ac