Kindly ask your consultant as to which provision of Factories Act or Rule prohibits a person being nominated as manager for more than one unit.There are four persons referred to in Factories Act
1. Occupier
2. Manager
3. welfare officer
4. Safety Officer
Occupier nominates a Manager. If he does not nominate or if a nominated Manager resigns, the Occupier will be the Manager unless it is proved with facts that someone else is acting as Manager. Act does not provide duties of a Manager. Welfare officer a nd Safety officers can not be nominated for other units. But Manager can be. It is not even necessary that his name has to be in the Muster Roll. However, it is expected that attends to day to day functions of the Unit. You can not appoint a Consultant who will come once a week as Manager.If the unit is located outside the city, it will be presumed that the person can not oversee day to day operations. Hence there may be requirement of another person who is located there as Manager. But if you have two units in the same city, since the law does not prohibit, the Occupies can nominate the same person as Manager for two units.
If one goes through the Rules in different States, you will find that the Manager is responsible more for maintenanc eof registers and sending information the Inspector. Wherever, major issues are involved, the Act talks about the Occupier and in some cases Occupier and Manager. But nowhere there had been a prohibition about a person being appointed as Manager for more than one Unit.