( 1. ) THIS application under Article 226 of the Constitution of India is by a partner of a firm registered under the Indian Partnership Act which is engaged in the business of manufacture of biscuits and confectionary.

( 2. ) THE petitioners manufactory at Gwalior has been licensed under the Factories Act as a factory employing not more than five-hundred workers on any one day during the year. According to the applicant, the number of workers in the factory has never been less than 320 and at one time it went up to 477. The grievance of the petitioner is that during the pendency of certain disputes raised by the firm and also by the union of the workers and referred to the Industrial Tribunal under Section 10 (1) of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947, for adjudication, the State Government issued a notification under Section 2 (4) of the Bombay Industrial Relations Act, 1946, as adapted by the Madhya Bharat Industrial Relations (Adaptation) Act, Samvat 2006, applying all the provisions of the B. I. R. Act "to those undertakings of the biscuit and confectionary industry in the Madhya Bharat region who employ more than hundred workers from the date of the publication of the