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Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1970

.....in this behalf, (ii) in a factory, the owner or occupier of the factory and where a person has been named as the manager of the factory under the Factories Act, 1948 (63 of 1948)-, the person so named, (iii) in a mine, the owner or agent of the mine and where a person has been named as the manager of the mine, the person so named, (iv) in any other establishment, any person responsible for the supervision and control of the establishment. (h) "wages" shall have the meaning assigned to it in clause (vi) of section 2 of the Payment of Wages Act, 1936 (4 of 1936)-; (i) "workman" means any person employed in or in connection with the work of any establishment to do any skilled, semi-skilled or unskilled manual, supervisory, technical or clerical work for hire or reward, whether the terms of employment be express or implied but does not include any such person- (A) who is employed mainly in a managerial or administrative capacity ; or (B) who, being employed in a supervisory capacity draws wages exceeding five 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.....

Contract Labour (Regulation & Abolition) Act, 1970 Complete Act

State: Meghalaya

Year: 1970

.....in this behalf, (ii) in a factory, the owner or occupier of the factory and where a person has been named as the manager of the factory under the Factories Act, 1948 (63 of 1948), the person so named. (iii) in a mine, the owner or agent of the mine and where a person has been named as the manager of the mine, the person so named, (iv) in any other establishment, any person responsible for the supervision and control of the establishment. Explanation : For the purpose of sub-clause (iii) of this clause, the expressions "mine", "owner" and "agent" shall have the meanings respectively assigned to them in clause (j) clause (l) and clause (c) of sub-section (1) of section 2 of the Mine Act, 1952 (35 of 1952); (h) "wages" shall have the meaning assigned to it in clause (vi) of section 2 of the Payment of Wages Act, 1936 (4 of 1936); (i) "workman" means any person employed in or in connection with the work of any establishment to do any skilled, semi-skilled or unskilled manual, supervisory, technical or clerical work for hire or reward, whether the terms of employment be express or implied, but does not include any such person- (A) who is employed mainly in a managerial.....

Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970 Chapter V

Title: Welfare and Health of Contract Labour

State: Central

Year: 1970

.....employer from the contractor either by deduction from any amount payable to the contractor under any contract or as a debt payable by the contractor. Section 21 - Responsibility for payment of wages (1) A contractor shall be responsible for payment of wages to each worker employed by him as contract labour and such wages shall be paid before the expiry of such period as may be prescribed. (2) Every principal employer shall nominate a representative duly authorised by him to be present at the time of disbursement of wages by the contractor and it shall be the duty of such representative to certify the amounts paid as wages in such manner as may be prescribed. (3) It shall be the duty of the contractor or ensure the disbursement of wages in the presence of the authorised representative of the principal employer. (4) In case the contractor fails to make payment of wages within the prescribed period or makes short payment, then the principal employer shall be liable to make payment of wages in full or the unpaid balance due, as the case may be, to the contract labour employed by the contractor and recover the amount so paid from the contractor either by deduction from.....

Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970 Chapter VII

Title: Miscellaneous

State: Central

Year: 1970

.....where contract labour is employed, for the purpose of examining any register or record or notice required to be kept or exhibited by or under this Act or rules made thereunder, and require the production thereof for inspection; (b) examine any person whom he finds in any such premises or place and who, he has reasonable cause to believe, is a workman employed therein; (c) require any person giving out work and any workman, to give any information, which is in his power to give with respect to the names and addresses of the person to, for and from whom the work is given out or received, and with respect to the payments to be made for the work; (d) seize or take copies of such register, record of wages or notices or portions thereof as he may consider relevant in respect of an offence under this Act which he has reason to believe has been committed by the principal employer or contractor; and (e) exercise such other powers as may be prescribed. (3) Any information required to produce any document or thing or to give any information required by an inspector under sub-section (2) shall be deemed to be legally bound to do so within the meaning of section 175 and section.....

Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970 Chapter I

Title: Preliminary

State: Central

Year: 1970

.....establishment, means a person who undertakes to produce a given result for the establishment, other than a mere supply of goods or articles of manufacture to such establishment, through contract labour or who supplies contract labour for any work of the establishment and includes a sub-contractor; (d) "controlled industry" means any industry the control of which by the Union has been declared by any Central Act to be expedient in the public interest; (e) "establishment" means- (i) any office or department of the government or a local authority, or (ii) any place where any industry, trade, business, manufacture or occupation is carried on; (f) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act; (g) "principal employer" means- (i) in relation to any office or department of the government or a local authority, the head of that office or department or such other officer as the government or the local authority; as the case may be, may specify in this behalf, (ii) in a factory, the owner or occupier of the factory and where a person has been named as the manager of the factory under the Factories Act, 1948 (63 of 1948), the person so named. (iii) in a mine,.....

Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970 Chapter III

Title: Registration of Establishments Employing Contract Labour

State: Central

Year: 1970

.....to him in thisbehalf or otherwise, that the registration of any establishment has beenobtained by misrepresentation or suppression of any material fact, or that forany other reason the registration has become useless or ineffective and,therefore requires to be revoked, the registering officer may, after giving anopportunity to the principal employer of the establishment to be heard and withthe previous approval of the appropriate government, revoke the registration. Section 9 - Effect of non-registration No principal employer of an establishment, to which this Act applies, shall (a) in the case of an establishment required to be registered under section 7, but which has not been registered within the time fixed for the purpose under that section; (b) in the case of an establishment the registration in respect of which has been revoked under section 8, employ contract labour in the establishment after the expiry of the period referred to in clause (a) or after the revocation of registration referred to in clause (b), as the case may be. Section 10 - Prohibition of employment of contract labour (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act, the appropriate.....

Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970 Section 30

Title: Effect of Laws and Agreements Inconsistent with This Act

State: Central

Year: 1970

(1) The provisions of this Act shall have effect notwithstanding anything inconsistent therewith contained in any other law or in the terms of any agreement or contract of service, or in any standing orders applicable to the establishment whether made before or after the commencement of this Act: Provided that where under any such agreement, contract of service or standing orders the contract labour employed, in the establishment are entitled to benefits in respect of any matter which are more favourable to them than those to which they would be entitled under this Act, the contract labour shall continue to be entitled to the more favourable benefits in respect of that matter, notwithstanding that they received benefits in respect of other matters under this Act. (2) Nothing contained in this Act shall be construed as precluding any such contract labour from entering into an agreement with the principal employer or the contractor, as the case may be, for granting them rights or privileges in respect of any matter which are more favourable to them than those to which they would be entitled under this Act.

Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970 Section 29

Title: Registers and Other Records to Be Maintained

State: Central

Year: 1970

(1) Every principal employer and every contractor shall maintain such register and records giving such particulars of contract labour employed, the nature of work performed by the contract labour, the rates of wages paid to the contract labour and such other particulars in such form as may be prescribed. (2) Every principal employer and every contractor shall keep exhibited in such manner as may be prescribed within the premises of the establishment where the contract labour is employed, notices in the prescribed form containing particulars about the hours of work, nature of duty and such other information as may be prescribed.

Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970 Complete Act

Title: Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970

State: Central

Year: 1970

.....- First-aid facilities Section20 - Liability of principal employer in certain cases Section21 - Responsibility for payment of wages Chapter VI Section22 - Obstructions Section23 - Contravention of provisions regarding employment of contract labour Section24 - Other offences Section25 - Offences by companies Section26 - Cognizance of offences Section27 - Limitation of prosecutions Chapter VII Section28 - Inspecting staff Section29 - Registers and other records to be maintained Section30 - Effect of laws and agreements inconsistent with this Act Section31 - Power to exempt in special cases Section32 - Protection of action taken under this Act Section33 - Power to give directions Section34 - Power to remove difficulties Section35 - Power to make rules

Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970 Section 17

Title: Rest-rooms

State: Central

Year: 1970

(1) In every place where in contract labour is required to halt at night in connection within the work of an establishment (a) to which this Act applies, and (b) in which work requiring employment of contract labour is likely to continue for such period as may be prescribed, there shall be provided and maintained by the contractor for the use of the contract labour such number of rest-rooms or such other suitable alternative accommodation with such time as may be prescribed. (2) The rest-rooms or the alternative accommodation to be provided under subsection (1) shall be sufficiently lighted and ventilated and shall be maintained in clean and comfortable condition.