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Plantations Labour Act, 1951 Section 16A

Title: Liability of Employer in Respect of Accidents Resulting Form Collapse of Houses Provided by Him

State: Central

Year: 1951

1[16A. Liability of employer in respect of accidents resulting form collapse of houses provided by him. (1) If death or injury is caused to any worker or a member of his family as a result of the collapse of a house provided under section 15, and the collapse is not slowly and directly attributable to a fault on the part of an occupant of the house or to a natural calamity, the employer shall be liable to pay compensation. (2) The provisions of section 4 of, and Schedule IV to, the Workmen's Compensation Act, 1923, as in force of the time being, regarding the amount of compensation payable to a workman under that Act shall, so far as may be, apply for the determination of the amount of compensation payable under sub-section (1). ________________________ 1 . Inserted by The Plantations Labour (Amendment) Act, 1981, w.e.f 29-12-1981

The Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Act, 1976 Complete Act

State: Maharashtra

Year: 1976

THE MAHARASHTRA HOUSING AND AREA DEVELOPMENT ACT, 1976 THE MAHARASHTRA HOUSING AND AREA DEVELOPMENT ACT, 1976 An Act to unify, consolidate and amend the laws relating to housing, repairing and reconstructing dangerous building and carrying out improvement works in slum areas. 1[WHEREAS, on account of the rapid growth of industries in the urban areas and the fast growth of population and commercial activities in such area, the need of housing accommodation could not be met by the limited house construction activities in the private sector; AND WHEREAS, in the urban areas and particularly in the 2[Brihan Mumbai] the old buildings which have outlived their lives and rendered themselves in a bad state of repairs and presented a dangerous possibility of collapse, necessity was increasingly felt to take up the programme of repairs and reconstructions of such buildings; AND WHEREAS, due to acute shortage of accommodation in the urban area such have come up which necessitated taking up improvement works in slum areas; AND WHEREAS, the magnitude of the housing programme for construction of new houses throughout the State and the task of repairs and reconstruction of old and.....

Plantations Labour Act, 1951 Chapter IV

Title: Welfare

State: Central

Year: 1951

.....provided and maintained by the employer suitable rooms for the use of children of such women workers. Explanation.- For the purposes of this sub-section and sub-section (1A) "children" means persons who are below the age of six years,;] 2[(1A) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), if in respect of any plantation wherein less than fifty women workers (including women workers employed by any contractor) are employed or were employed on any day of the preceding twelve months, or where the number of children of such women workers is less than twenty, the State Government, having regard to the number of children of such women workers deems it necessary that suitable rooms for the use of such children should be provided and maintained by the employer, it may, by order, direct the employer to provide and maintain such rooms and thereupon the employer shall be bound to comply with such direction.] (2)3[The rooms referred to in sub-section (1) or sub-section (1A)] shall-- (a) provide adequate accommodation; (b) the adequately lighted and ventilated; (c) be maintained in a clean and sanitary condition; and (d) be under the charge of a woman trained in the.....

Plantations Labour Act, 1951 Chapter VIII

Title: Miscellaneous

State: Central

Year: 1951

.....other premises used for any purpose connected with such plantation, but does not include any factory on the premises to which the provisions of the Factories Act, 1948, (63 of 1948) apply;'; (iii) for clause (h), the following clause shall be substituted, namely:- `(h) ``qualified medical practitioner'' means a person holding a qualification granted by an authority specified or notified under section 3 of the Indian Medical Degrees Act, 1916, (7 of 1916) or specified in the Schedules to the Indian Medical Council Act, 1956, (102 of 1956) and includes any person having a certificate granted under any Provincial or State Medical council Act;'; (iv) for clause (k), the following clause shall be substituted, namely:- `(k) `` worker'' means a person employed in a plantations for hire or reward, whether directly or through any agency, to do any work, skilled, unskilled manual or clerical, but does not include- (i) a medical officer employed in the plantation; (ii) any person employed in the plantation (including any member of the medical staff) whose monthly wages exceed rupees three hundred; (iii) any person employed in the plantation primarily in a managerial capacity,.....

Plantations Labour Act, 1951 Amending Act 2

Title: Plantation Labour (Amendment) Act, 1981

State: Central

Year: 1951

..... (2) It shall come into force on such date 1 as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint. 2. Amendment of section 1.- In section 1 of the Plantation LABOUR Act, 1951 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act,)- (i) in sub-sections (4) and (5),- (a) for the fugures and word "10.117 hectares", wherever they occur, the figure and word "5 hectares" shall be substituted; (b) for the word "thirty", wherever it occurs, the word "fifteen" shall be substituted; (ii) in sub-section (4), in clause (a), for the words " or cinchona", the words "cinchona or cardamom" shall be substituted; (iii) after sub-section (4), the following Explanation shall be inserted, namely:-- "Explanation.- Where any piece of land used for growing any plant referred to in clause (a) or clause (b) of this sub-section admeasures less than 5 hectares and is contiguous to any other piece of land not being so used, but capable of being so used, and both such pieces of land are under the management of the same employer, then, for the purposes of this sub-section, the piece of land first mentioned shall be deemed to be a plantation, if the total area of both.....

Mines Act, 1952 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1952

.....(i) At present workshops run by a mine for the maintenance of its machinery and plant in safe and efficient working order are subject to the Factories Act, 1948. which is administered by Provincial Governments. Workers in workshops such as Fitters, blacksmiths, welders, electricians and others requently work for a. part of the shift underground and while so employed Come within the scope of the Mines Act. It is inconvenient that the same personnel should be subject to two different Acts administered by two different authorities. It is now proposed to bring all personnel engaged solely on work relating to mines within the scope of the Mines Act. For similar reasons it is proposed to bring within the scope of the Mines Act ower stations which generate power used wholly In connection with the mine concerned. (ii) Provision has been made in the Bill for the issue of adolescents and the appointment of certifying surgeons. (iii) The provisions in the existing Act regarding conservancy and sanitary conveniences are of a general nature. , The Bill provides for more definite arrangements for drinking water, latrines, urinals, etc. (iv) It has been made obligatory on the part of the.....

Mines Act, 1952 Chapter VIII

Title: Regulations, Rules and Bye-laws

State: Central

Year: 1952

.....form of registers required by section 48 and the maintenance and form of registers for the purposes of Chapter VII;] (m) for prescribing 8 abstracts of this Act and of the regulations and rules and the language in which the abstracts and bye-laws shall be posted as required by sections 61 and 62; (n) for requiring notices, returns and reports in connection with any matters dealt with by rules to be furnished by owners, agents and managers of mines, and for prescribing the forms of such notices, returns and reports, the persons and authorities to whom they are to be furnished, the particulars to be contained in them, and the times, within which they are to be submitted; (o) for requiring the provision and maintenance in mines, wherein more than 9 [* * *] fifty persons are ordinarily employed, of adequate and suitable shelters for taking food with provision for drinking water; (p) for requiring the provision and maintenance in any mine specified in this behalf by the Chief Inspector or Inspector, wherein more than two hundred and fifty persons are ordinarily employed, of a canteen or canteens for the use of such persons; (q) for requiring the employment in every mine.....

Mines Act, 1952 Section 57

Title: Power of Central Government to Makeregulations

State: Central

Year: 1952

.....result in or to aggravate the collapse of9[workings] or irruptions of water or ignitions in mines; (t)10[for prescribing under clause (g) of sub-section (1) of section 23, the types of accidents and for prescribing the notices] of accidents had dangerous occurrences, and the notices, reports and returns of mineral output, persons employed and other matters provided for by regulations, to be furnished by owners, agents and managers of mines and for prescribing the forms of such notices, returns and reports, the persons and authorities to whom they are to be furnished, the particulars to be contained in them, and the time within which they are to be submitted; 11[(u)12[for requiring owners, agents and managers of mines to have fixed boundaries for the mines, for prescribing the plans and sections and field notes connected therewith to be kept by them] and the manner and places in which such plans, sections and field notes are to be kept for purposes of record and for the submission of copies thereof to the Chief Inspector; and for requiring the making of fresh surveys and plans by them, and in the event of non-compliance, for having the survey made and plans prepared through.....

The Mizoram Value Added Tax Act, 2005 Complete Act

State: Mizoram

Year: 2005

.....material or for the execution of works contract; (18) "Joint Commissioner" means any persons appointed to be a Joint Commissioner under this Act; (19) "manufacture" with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions means producing, making, extracting, altering, ornamenting, finishing, assembling or otherwise processing, treating or adapting any goods and includes printing, but does not include any such process or mode of manufacture; (20) "output tax" in relation to any period means the tax payable by a dealer under this Act in respect of any sale or purchase of goods by that dealer during that period in the course of his business; (21) "person" includes - (a) an individual; (b) a joint family; (c) a company; (d) a firm; (e) an association of persons or a body of individual; whether incorporated or not; (f) the Central Government or the Government of Mizoram or the Government of any other State or Union Territory in India; (g) a local authority; (22) "place of business" means any place where a dealer carries on the business and includes- (a) any warehouse, go-down, or other place where a dealer stores or processes his goods; (b) any place.....

West Bengal Municipal Act, 1993 Complete Act

State: West Bengal

Year: 1993

.....epidemic, endemic, or infectious disease which the State Government may, by notification, declare to be a dangerous disease for the purposes of this Act; 44. Clause (15A) ins, by W.B. Act 45 of 1994. (15A) "District Magistrate" means the District Magistrate referred to in sub-section (1) of S.20 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973; 55. Clauses (15B) and (15C) ins. by W.B. Act 32 of 1997. (15B) "District Planning Committee" means the District Planning Committee constituted under sub-section (1) of S.3 of the West Bengal District Planning Committee Act, 1994, and includes the Siliguri Sub-Division Planning Committee; 55. Clauses (15B) and (15C) ins. by W.B. Act 32 of 1997. (15C) "Draft Development Plan" means the Draft Development Plan prepared under section 297; (16) "drain" includes a sewer, a house-drain, a drain of any other description, a tunnel, a culvert, a ditch, a channel and any other device for carrying of sullage, sewage, offensive matter, polluted water, rain-water or subsoil water; (17) "drug" means any substance used as medicine or in the composition or preparation of medicines, whether for internal or external use, but does not include a drug within the.....