Preamble - THE PROHIBITION OF EMPLOYMENT AS MANUAL SCAVENGERS AND THEIR REHABILITATION ACT, 2013
Chapter I - PRELIMINARY
Section 1 - Short title, extent and commencement
Section 2 - Definitions
Section 3 - Act to have overriding effect
Chapter II - IDENTIFICATION OF INSANITARY LATRINES
Section 4 - Local authorities to survey insanitary latrines and provide sanitary community latrines
Chapter III - PROHIBITION OF INSANITARY LATRINES AND EMPLOYMENT AND ENGAGEMENT AS MANUAL SCAVENGER
Section 5 - Prohibition of insanitary latrines and employment and engagement of manual scavenger
Section 6 - Contract, agreement, etc., to be void
Section 7 - Prohibition of persons from engagement or employment for hazardous cleaning of sewers and septic tanks
Section 8 - Penalty for contravention of section 5 or section 6
Section 9 - Penalty for contravention of section 7
Section 10 - Limitation of prosecution
Chapter IV - IDENTIFICATION OF MANUAL SCAVENGERS IN URBAN AND RURAL AREAS AND THEIR REHABILITATION
Section 11 - Survey of manual scavengers in urban areas by Municipalities
Section 12 - Application by an urban manual scavenger for identification
Section 13 - Rehabilitation of persons identified as manual scavengers by a Municipality
Section 14 - Survey of manual scavengers in rural areas by Panchayats
Section 15 - Application by a rural manual scavenger for identification
Section 16 - Rehabilitation of persons identified as manual scavengers by a Panchayat
Chapter V - IMPLEMENTING AUTHORITIES
Section 17 - Responsibility of local authorities to ensure elimination of insanitary latrines
Section 18 - Authorities who may be specified for implementing provisions of this Act
Section 19 - Duty of District Magistrate and authorised officers
Section 20 - Appointment of inspectors and their powers
Chapter VI - PROCEDURE FOR TRIAL
Section 21 - Offences to be tried by Executive Magistrate
Section 22 - Offence to be cognizable and non
Section 23 - Offences by companies
Chapter VII - VIGILANCE COMMITTEES
Section 24 - Vigilance Committees
Section 25 - Functions of Vigilance Committee
Section 26 - State Monitoring Committee
Section 27 - Functions of the State Monitoring Committee
Section 28 - Duty of States or Union territories to send periodic reports to the Central Government
Section 29 - Central Monitoring Committee
Section 30 - Functions of the Central Monitoring Committee
Section 31 - Functions of National Commission for Safai Karamcharis
Section 32 - Power of State Government to designate an appropriate authority to monitor the implementation of this Act
Chapter VIII - MISCELLANEOUS
Section 33 - Duty of local authorities and other agencies to use modern technology for cleaning of sewers, etc.
Section 34 - Protection of action taken in good faith
Section 35 - Jurisdiction of civil courts barred
Section 36 - Power of appropriate Government to make rules
Section 37 - Power of Central Government to make model rules
Section 38 - Power to remove difficulties
Section 39 - Power to exempt