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The Building and Other Construction Workers (Regulation of Employment and Conditions Ofservice) Act, 1996 Complete Act

State: Assam

Year: 1996

.....behalf by the appropriate Government, by notification but does not include any building or other construction work to which the provisions of the Factories Act, 1948 (63 of 1948), or the Mines Act, 1952 (35 of 1952), apply; (e) "building worker" means a person who is employed to do any skilled, semi-skilled or unskilled, manual, supervisory, technical or clerical work for hire or reward, whether the terms of employment be expressed or implied, in connection with any building or other construction work but does not include any such person" (i) who is employed mainly in a managerial or administrative capacity; or (ii) who, being employed in a supervisory capacity, draws wages exceeding one thousand six hundred rupees per mensem or exercises, either by the nature of the duties attached to the office or by reason of the powers vested in him, functions mainly of a managerial nature; (f) "Chief Inspector" means the Chief Inspector of Inspection of Building and Construction appointed under sub-section (2) of section 42; (g) "contractor" means a person who undertakes to produce a given result for any establishment, other than a mere supply of goods or articles of manufacture,.....

Building and Other Construction Workers (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1996 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1996

.....behalf by the appropriate Government, by notification but does not include any building or other construction work to which the provisions of the (Factories Act, 1948), or the (Mines Act, 1952), apply; (e) "building worker" means a person who is employed to do any skilled, semi-skilled or unskilled, manual, supervisory, technical or clerical work for hire or reward, whether the terms of employment be expressed or implied, in connection with any building or other construction work but does not include any such person- (i) who is employed mainly in a managerial or administrative capacity; or (ii) who, being employed in a supervisory capacity, draws wages exceeding one thousand six hundred rupees per mensem or exercises, either by the nature of the duties attached to the office or by reason of the powers vested in him, functions mainly of a managerial nature; (f) "Chief Inspector" means the Chief Inspector of Inspection of Building and Construction appointed under sub-section (2) of (Section 42) ; (g) "contractor" means a person who undertakes to produce a given result for any establishment, other than a mere supply of goods or articles of manufacture, by the employment of.....

Building and Other Construction Workers (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1996 Preamble 1

Title: Building and Other Construction Workers (Regulation of Employmentand Conditions of Service) Act, 1996

State: Central

Year: 1996

THE BUILDING AND OTHER CONSTRUCTION WORKERS (REGULATION OF EMPLOYMENT AND CONDITIONS OF SERVICE) ACT, 1996 [Act, No. 27 of 1996] [19th August, 1996] PREAMBLE An Act to regulate the employment and conditions of service of building and other construction workers and to provide for their safety, health and welfare measures and for other matters connected therewith or incidental thereto. be it enacted by Parliament in the Forty-seventh Year of the Republic of India as follows:--

Building and Other Construction Workers (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1996 Chapter VI

Title: Hours of Work, Welfare Measures and Other Conditions of Service of Building Workers

State: Central

Year: 1996

.....has to be completed before the day is over; (d) persons engaged in a work which could not be carried on except at times dependant on the irregular action of natural forces. Section 29 - Wages for overtime work (1) Where any building worker is required to work on any day in excess of the number of hours constituting a normal working day, he shall be entitled to wages at the rate of twice his ordinary rate of wages. (2) For the purposes of this section, "ordinary rates of wages" means the basic wages plus such allowances as the worker is for the time being entitled to but docs not include any bonus. Section 30 - Maintenance of registers and records (1) Every employer shall maintain such registers and records giving such particulars of building workers employed by him, the work performed by them, the number of hours of work which shall constitute a normal working day for them, a day of rest in every period of seven days which shall be allowed to them, the wages paid to them, the receipts given by them and such other particulars in such form as may be prescribed. (2) Even, employer shall keep exhibited, in such manner as may be prescribed, in the place where such.....

Building and Other Construction Workers (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1996 Chapter I

Title: Preliminary

State: Central

Year: 1996

.....behalf by the appropriate Government, by notification but does not include any building or other construction work to which the provisions of the Factories Act, 1948 (63 of 1948), or the Mines Act, 1952 (35 of 1952), apply; (e) "building worker" means a person who is employed to do any skilled, semiskilled or unskilled, manual, supervisory, technical or clerical work for hire or reward, whether the terms of employment be expressed or implied, in connection with any building or other construction work but does not include any such person-- (i) who is employed mainly in a managerial or administrative capacity; or (ii) who, being employed in a supervisory capacity, draws wages exceeding one thousand six hundred rupees permensem or exercises, cither by the nature of the duties attached to the office or by reason of the powers vested in him, functions mainly of a managerial nature; (f) "Chief Inspector" means the Chief Inspector of Inspection of Building and Construction appointed under sub-section (2) of section 42; (g) "contractor" means a person who undertakes to produce a given result for any establishment, other than a mere supply ofgoods or articles of manufacture,.....

BUILDING AND OTHER CONSTRUCTION WORKERS (REGULATION OF EMPLOYMENT AND CONDITIONS OF SERVICE) ACT, 1996 Chapter V

Title: BUILDING AND OTHER CONSTRUCTION WORKERS' WELFARE BOARDS

State: Central

Year: 1996

.....workers in any establishment. (3) The Board may pay annually grants-in-aid to a local authority or to an employer who provides to the satisfaction of the Board welfare measures and facilities of the standard specified by the Board for the benefit of the building workers and the members of their family, so, however, that the amount payable as grants-in-aid to any local authority or employer shall not exceed-- (a) the amount spent in providing welfare measures and facilities as determined by the State Government or any person specified by it in this behalf, or (b) such amount as may be prescribed, whichever is less: Provided that no grant-in-aid shall be payable in respect of any such welfare measures and facilities where the amount spent thereon determined as aforesaid is less than the amount prescribed in this behalf. Section 23 - Grants and loans by the Central Government The Central Government may, after due appropriation made by Parliament by law in this behalf, make to a Board grants and loans of such sums of money as the Government may consider necessary. Section 24 - Building and Other Construction Workers' Welfare Fund and its application (1).....

Building and Other Construction Workers (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1996 Chapter XI

Title: Miscellaneous

State: Central

Year: 1996

.....shall so far as may be, apply to building workers as if the employment to which this Act applies had been included in the Second Schedule to that Act. Section 59 - Protection of action taken in good faith (1) No suit, prosecution or other legal proceeding shall lie against any person for anything which is in good faith done or intended to be done in pursuance of this Act or any rule or order made thereunder. (2) No prosecution or other legal proceeding shall lie against the Government, any Board or Committees constituted under this Act or any member of such Board or any officer or employee of the Government or the Board or any other person authorised by the Government or any Board or Committee, for any damage caused or likely to be caused by anything which is in good faith done or intended to be done in pursuance of this Act or any rule or order made or issued thereunder. Section 60 - Power of Central Government to give directions The Central Government may give directions to the Government of any State or to a Board as to the carrying into execution in that State of any of the provisions of this Act. Section 61 - Power to remove difficulties (1) If any.....

Building and Other Construction Workers (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1996 Section 34

Title: Accommodation

State: Central

Year: 1996

(1) The employer shall provide, free of charges and within the work site or as near to it as may be possible, temporary living accommodation to all building workers employed by him for such period as the building or other construction work is in progress. (2) The temporary accommodation provided under sub-section (1) shall have separate cooking place, bathing, washing and lavatory facilities. (3) As soon as may be, after the building or other construction work is over, the employer shall, at his own cost, cause removal or demolition of the temporary structures erected by him for the purpose of providing living accommodation, cooking place or other facilities to the building workers as required under sub-section (1) and restore the ground in good level and clean condition. (4) In case an employer is given any land by a Municipal Board or any other local authority for the purposes of providing temporary accommodation for the building workers under this section, he shall, as soon as may be after the construction work is over, return the possession of such land in the same condition in which he received the same.

Building and Other Construction Workers (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1996 Section 1

Title: Short Title, Extent, Commencement and Application

State: Central

Year: 1996

(1) This Act may be called the Building and Other Construction Workers (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1996. (2) It extends to the whole of India. (3) It shall be deemed to have come into force on the 1st day of March, 1996. (4) It applies to every establishment which employs, or had employed on any day of the preceding twelve months, ten or more building workers in any building or other construction work. Explanation.--For the purposes of this sub-section, the building workers employed in different relays in a day either by the employer or the contractor shall be taken into account in computing the number of building workers employed in the establishment.

Building and Other Construction Workers (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1996 Section 22

Title: Functions of the Boards

State: Central

Year: 1996

.....Board may grant loan or subsidy to a local authority or an employer in aid of any scheme approved by the State Government for the purpose connected with the welfare of building workers in any establishment. (3) The Board may pay annually grants-in-aid to a local authority or to an employer who provides to the satisfaction of the Board welfare measures and facilities of the standard specified by the Board for the benefit of the building workers and the members of their family, so, however, that the amount payable as grants-in-aid to any local authority or employer shall not exceed-- (a) the amount spent in providing welfare measures and facilities as determined by the State Government or any person specified by it in this behalf, or (b) such amount as may be prescribed, whichever is less: Provided that no grant-in-aid shall be payable in respect of any such welfare measures and facilities where the amount spent thereon determined as aforesaid is less than the amount prescribed in this behalf.