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Title: Bonded Labour System Abolition Act, 1976
State: Central
Year: 1976
.....not to be evicted from homestead, etc Section9 - Creditor not to accept payment against extinguished debt Chapter IV Section10 - Authorities who may be specified for implementing the provisions of this Act Section11 - Duty of District Magistrate and other officers to ensure credit Section12 - Duty of District Magistrate and officers authorised by him Chapter V Section13 - Vigilance Committees Section14 - Functions of Vigilance Committees Section15 - Burden of proof Chapter VI Section16 - Punishment for enforcement of bonded labour Section17 - Punishment for advancement of bonded debt Section18 - Punishment for extracting bonded labour under the bonded labour system Section19 - Punishment for omission or failure to restore possession of property to bonded labourers Section20 - Abetment to bean offence Section21 - Offences to be tried by Executive Magistrates Section22 - Cognizance of offences Section23 - Offences by companies Chapter VII Section24 - Protection of action taken in good faith Section25 - Jurisdiction of civil courts barred Section26 - Power to make rules Section27 - Repeal and saving
List Judgments citing this sectionBonded Labour System Abolition Act, 1976 Chapter II
Title: Abolition of Bonded Labour System
State: Central
Year: 1976
(1) On the commencement of this Act, the bonded labour system shall stand abolished any every bonded labourer shall, on such commencement, stand freed and discharged from any obligation to render any bonded labour. (2) After the commencement of this Act, no person shall (a) make any advance under, or in pursuance of, the bonded labour system, or (b) compel any person to render any bonded labour or other form of forced labour. Section 5 - Agreement, custom, etc., to be void On the commencement of this Act, any custom or tradition or any contract, agreement or other instrument (whether entered into or executed before or after the commencement of this Act) by virtue of which any person, or any member of the family or dependent of such person, is required to do any work or render any service as a bonded labourer, shall be void and inoperative.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionBonded Labour System Abolition Act, 1976 Section 4
Title: Abolition of Bonded Labour System
State: Central
Year: 1976
(1) On the commencement of this Act, the bonded labour system shall stand abolished any every bonded labourer shall, on such commencement, stand freed and discharged from any obligation to render any bonded labour. (2) After the commencement of this Act, no person shall (a) make any advance under, or in pursuance of, the bonded labour system, or (b) compel any person to render any bonded labour or other form of forced labour.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionBonded Labour System Abolition Act, 1976 Section 7
Title: Property of Bonded Labourer to Be Freed from Mortgage, Etc.
State: Central
Year: 1976
(1) All property vested in a bonded labourer which was, immediately before the commencement of this Act under any mortgage, charge, lien or other encumbrances in connection with any bonded debt shall, in so far as it is relatable to the bonded debt, stand freed and discharged from such mortgage, charge, lien or other incumbrances, and where any such property was, immediately before the commencement of this Act, in the possession of the mortgagee or the holder of the charge, lien or incumbrance, such property shall (except where it was subject to any other charge), on such commencement, be restored to the possession of the bonded labourer. (2) If any delay is made in restoring any property referred to in sub-section (1) to the possession of the bonded labourer, such labourer shall be entitled, on and from the date of such commencement, to recover from the mortgagee or holder of the lien, charge or incumbrance, such mesne profits as may be determined by the civil court of the lowest pecuniary jurisdiction within the local limits of whose jurisdiction such property is situated.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionBonded Labour System Abolition Act, 1976 Section 18
Title: Punishment for Extracting Bonded Labour Under the Bonded Labour System
State: Central
Year: 1976
Whoever enforces after the commencement of this Act, any custom, tradition, contract, agreement or other instrument, by virtue of which any person or any member of the family of such person or any dependent of such person is required to render any service under the bonded labour system, shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years and also with fine which may extend to two thousand rupees; and, out of the fine, if recovered, payment shall be made to the bonded labourer at the rate of rupees five for each day for which the bonded labour was extracted from him.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionBonded Labour System Abolition Act, 1976 Section 8
Title: Freed Bonded Labourer Not to Be Evicted from Homestead, Etc
State: Central
Year: 1976
(1) No person who has been freed and discharged under this Act from any obligation to render any bonded labour, shall be evicted from any homestead or other residential premises which he was occupying immediately before the commencement of this Act as part of the consideration for the bonded labour. (2) If, after the commencement of this Act, any such person is evicted by the creditor from any homestead or other residential premises, referred to in sub-section (1), the Executive Magistrate in charge of the Sub-Division within which such homestead or residential premises is situated shall, as early as practicable, restore the bonded labourer to the possession of such homestead or other residential premises.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionBonded Labour System Abolition Act, 1976 Preamble 1
Title: Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act, 1976
State: Central
Year: 1976
THE BONDED LABOUR SYSTEM (ABOLITION) ACT, 1976 [Act, No. 19 of 1976] [9th February, 1976] Arrangement of Section PREAMBLE An Act to provide for the abolition of bonded labour system with a view to preventing the economic and physical exploitation of the weaker sections of the people and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto. BE it enacted by Parliament in the Twenty-seventh Year of the Republic of India as follows:
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionBonded Labour System Abolition Act, 1976 Section 19
Title: Punishment for Omission or Failure to Restore Possession of Property to Bonded Labourers
State: Central
Year: 1976
Whoever, being required by this Act to restore any property to the possession of any bonded labourer, omits or fails to do so, within a period of thirty days from the commencement of this Act, shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year, or with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees, or with both; and, out of the fine, if recovered, payment shall be made to the bonded labourer at the rate of rupees five for each day during which possession of the property was not restored to him.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionBonded Labour System Abolition Act, 1976 Section 16
Title: Punishment for Enforcement of Bonded Labour
State: Central
Year: 1976
Whoever, after the commencement of this Act, compels any person to render any bonded labour shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years and also with fine which may extend to two thousand rupees.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionBonded Labour System Abolition Act, 1976 Chapter III
Title: Extinguishment of Liability to Repay Bonded Debt
State: Central
Year: 1976
.....of being heard, direct the creditor to restore to the applicant the possession of the concerned property within such time as may be specified in the order. (7) An order made by any prescribed authority, under sub-section (6), shall be deemed to be an order made by a civil court and may be executed by the court of the lowest pecuniary jurisdiction within the local limits of whose jurisdiction the creditor voluntarily resides or carries on business or personally works for gain. (8) For the avoidance of doubts, it is hereby declared that, where any attached property was sold before the commencement of this Act, in execution of a decree or order for the recovery of a bonded debt, such sale shall not be affected by any provision of this Act: Provided that the bonded labour, or an agent authorised by him in this behalf, may, at any time within five years from such commencement, apply to have the sale set aside on his depositing in court for payment to the decree-holder, the amount specified in the proclamation of sale, for the recovery of which the sale was ordered, less any amount, as well as mesne profits, which may, since the date of such proclamation of sale, have been.....
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