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The Kerala Headload Workers ( Amendment) Act, 2008 Complete Act

State: Kerala

Year: 2008

.....to amend the Kerala Headload Workers Act, 1978 and to repeal the Kerala Loading and Unloading (Regulation of Wages and Restriction of Unlawful Practices) Act, 2002. Preamble.- WHEREAS, it is expedient further to amend the Kerala Headload Workers Act, 1978 and to repeal the Kerala Loading and Unloading(Regulation of Wages and Restriction of Unlawful Practices) Act, 2002 for the purposes hereinafter appearing; BE it enacted in the Fifty-ninth Year of the Republic of India as follows:- 1. Short title and commencement.- (1) This Act may be called the Kerala Headload Workers (Amendment) Act, 2008. (2) It shall come into force at once. 2. Amendment of section 2.- In section 2 of the Kerala Headload Workers Act, 1978 (20 of 1980) (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act),- (a) in clause (g) for the words "or in groups for the purpose of engaging them in such establishment and includes a sub-contractor and a broker", the words "for the purpose of engaging them in such establishment and includes a sub-contractor, a broker, a clearing and forwarding agent, commission agent, mercantile agent, consignment agent or the owner of a vehicle laden with goods" shall be substituted: (b).....