Act Info:Preamble - THE EMPLOYEES' STATE INSURANCE ACT, 1948
Chapter I
Section1 - Short title, extent, commencement and application
Section2 - Definitions
Section2A - Registration of factories and establishments
Chapter II
Section3 - Establishment of Employees' State Insurance Corporation
Section4 - Constitution of Corporation
Section5 - Term of office of members of Corporation
Section6 - Eligibility for re-nomination or re-election
Section7 - Authentication of orders, decisions, etc
Section8 - Constitution of Standing Committee
Section9 - Term of office of members of Standing Committee
Section10 - Medical Benefit Council
Section11 - Resignation of membership
Section12 - Cessation of membership
Section13 - Disqualification
Section14 - Filling of vacancies
Section15 - Fees and allowances
Section16 - Principal Officers
Section17 - Staff
Section18 - Powers of the Standing Committee
Section19 - Corporation's power to promote measures for health, etc., of insured persons
Section20 - Meetings of Corporation, Standing Committee and Medical Benefit Council
Section21 - Supersession of the Corporation and Standing Committee
Section22 - Duties of Medical Benefit Council
Section23 - Duties of Director General and the Financial Commissioner
Section24 - Acts of Corporation, etc., not invalid by reason of defect in constitution, etc.
Section25 - Regional Boards, Local Committees, Regional and Local Medical Benefit Councils
Chapter III
Section26 - Employees' State Insurance Fund
Section27 - Grant by the Central Government
Section28 - Purposes for which the Fund may be expended
Section28A - Administrative expenses
Section29 - Holding of property, etc.
Section30 - Vesting of the property in the Corporation
Section31 - Expenditure by Central Government to be treated as a loan
Section32 - Budget estimates
Section33 - Accounts
Section34 - Audit
Section35 - Annual Report
Section36 - Budget, audited accounts and the annual report to be placed before Parliament
Section37 - Valuation of assets and liabilities
Chapter IV
Section38 - All employees to be insured
Section39 - Contributions
Section40 - Principal employer to pay contribution in the first instance
Section41 - Recovery of contribution from immediate employer
Section42 - General provisions as to payment of contributions
Section43 - Method of payment of contribution
Section44 - Employers to furnish returns and maintain registers in certain cases
Section45 - Inspectors, their functions and duties
Section45A - Determination of contributions in certain cases
Section45AA - Appellate authority
Section45B - Recovery of contributions
Section45C - Issue of certificate to the Recovery Officer
Section45D - Recovery Officer to whom certificate is to be forwarded
Section45E - Validity of certificate and amendment thereof
Section45F - Stay of proceedings under certificate and amendment or withdrawal thereof
Section45G - Other modes of recovery
Section45H - Application of certain provisions of the Income-tax Act
Section45I - Definitions
Chapter V
Section46 - Benefits
Section47 - When person eligible for sickness benefit
Section48 - When person deemed available for employment
Section49 - Sickness benefit
Section50 - Maternity benefit
Section51 - Disablement benefit
Section51A - Presumption as to accident arising in course of employment
Section51B - Accidents happening while acting in breach of regulations, etc.
Section51C - Accidents happening while travelling in employer's transport.
Section51D - Accidents happening while meeting emergency
Section51E - Accidents happening while commuting to the place of work and vice versa
Section52 - Dependant's benefit
Section52A - Occupational disease
Section53 - Bar against receiving or recovery of compensation or damages under any other law
Section54 - Determination of question of disablement
Section54A - References to medical boards and appeals to medical appeal tribunals and Employees' Insurance Courts
Section55 - Review of decisions by medical board or medical appeal tribunal
Section55A - Review of dependants' benefit
Section56 - Medical benefit
Section57 - Scale of medical benefit
Section58 - Provision of medical treatment by State Government
Section59 - Establishment and maintenance of hospitals, etc., by Corporation
Section59A - Provision of medical benefit by the Corporation in lieu of State Government
Section59B - Medical and para-medical education
Section60 - Benefit not assignable or attachable
Section61 - Bar of benefits under other enactments
Section62 - Persons not to commute cash benefits
Section63 - Persons not entitled to receive benefit in certain cases
Section64 - Recipients of sickness or disablement benefit to observe conditions
Section65 - Benefits not to be combined
Section66 - Corporalion's right to recover damages from employer in certain cases
Section67 - Corporation's right to be indemnified in certain cases
Section68 - Corporation's rights where a principal employer fails or neglects to pay any contribution
Section69 - Liability of owner or occupier of factories, etc., for excessive sickness benefit
Section70 - Repayment of benefit improperly received
Section71 - Benefit payable up to and including day of death
Section72 - Employer not to reduce wages, etc.
Section73 - Employer not to dismiss or punish employee during period of sickness, etc.
Chapter VA
Section73A - Definitions
Section73B - Power to frame Scheme
Section73C - Collection of user charges
Section73D - Scheme for other beneficiaries
Section73E - Power to amend Scheme
Section73F - Laying of Scheme framed under this Chapter
Chapter VI
Section74 - Constitution of Employees' Insurance Court
Section75 - Matters to be decided by Employees' Insurance Court
Section76 - Institution of proceedings, etc.
Section77 - Commencement of proceedings
Section78 - Powers of Employee's Insurance Court
Section79 - Appearance by legal practitioners, etc.
Section80 - Benefit not admissible unless claimed in time
Section81 - Reference to High Court
Section82 - Appeal
Section83 - Stay of payment pending appeal
Chapter VII
Section84 - Punishment for false statement
Section85 - Punishment for failure to pay contributions, etc.
Section85A - Enhanced punishment in certain cases after previous conviction
Section85B - Power to recover damages
Section85C - Power of court to make orders
Section86 - Prosecutions
Section86A - Offences by companies
Chapter VIII
Section87 - Exemption of a factory or establishment or class of factories or establishments
Section88 - Exemption of persons or class of persons
Section89 - Corporation to make representation
Section90 - Exemption of factories or establishments belonging to Government or any local authority
Section91 - Exemption from one or more provisions of the Act
Section91A - Exemptions to be cither prospective or retrospective
Section91AA - Central Government to be appropriate Government
Section91B - Misuse of benefits
Section91C - Writing off of losses
Section92 - Power of Central Government to give directions
Section93 - Corporation officers and servants to be public servants
Section93A - Liability in case of transfer of establishment
Section94 - Contributions, etc., due to Corporation to have priority over other debts
Section94A - Delegation of powers
Section95 - Power of Central Government to make rules
Section96 - Power of State Government to make rules
Section97 - Power of Corporation to make regulations
Section98 - Corporation may undertake duties in Part B States
Section99 - Medical care for the families of insured persons
Section99A - Power to remove difficulties
Section100 - Repeals and savings
Schedule1 - [OMITTED]
Schedule2 - THE SECOND SCHEDULE
Schedule3 - THE THIRD SCHEDULE