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CINE WORKERS WELFARE CESS ACT, 1981 CINE WORKERS WELFARE CESS ACT, 1981 30 of 1981 11th September,1981. Cine artistes, like artistes in other performing arts, wither owing to changes in style and trends or due to ageing. There are cases where great artistes, who once enthralled the populace with their creative talents, have fallen into utter poverty and distress. In order to provide assistance in cases of extreme hardship, it is proposed to establish a welfare fund. For this purpose, it is proposed to levy, as a cess, aduty of excise at the rate of one thousand rupees on every feature film certified for public exhibition under section 5A of the Cinematograph Act, 1952. The duty of excise to be levied shall be in addition to any cess or duty leviable on cinematograph films under any other law for the time being in force. 2. The Bill seeks to achieve the above object.-Gaz. of Ind., 8-5-1981, Pt. II, S. 2, Ext. p. 386. An Act to provide for the levy and collection of a cess on feature films for the financing of activities to promote the welfare of certain cine -workers and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto. Be it enacted by Parliament in the Thirty-second Year of the Republic of India as follows :
1) This Act may be called the Cine-workers Welfare Cess Act, 1981.
(2) It extends to the whole of India.
(3) It shall come into force on such date1a as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazatte, appoint.