1.Short
title, extent, commencement and application. –
(1)This Act may be called the Employees' State Insurance Act, 1948.
(2)It extends to the whole of India1* * *.
(3)It shall come into force on such date or dates2 as the Central
Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint, and different
dates may be appointed for different provisions of this Act and 3[for different
States or for different parts thereof].
(4)It shall apply, in the first instance, to all factories (including factories
belonging to the Government) other than seasonal factories.
4[Provided
that nothing contained in this sub-section shall apply to a factory or establishment
belonging to or under the control of the Government whose employees are otherwise
in receipt of benefits substantially similar or superior to the benefits provided
under this Act.]
(5)The appropriate Government may, in consultation
with the corporation and 5[where the appropriate Government is a State
Government, with the approval of the Central Government], after giving six months'
notice of its intention of so doing by notification in the Official Gazette, extend
the provisions of this Act or any of them, to any other establishment or class
of establishments, industrial, commercial, agricultural or otherwise.
6[provided
that where the provisions of this Act have been brought into force in any part
of a State, the said provisions shall stand extended to any such establishment
or class of establishments within that part if the provisions have already been
extended to similar establishment or class of establishments in another part of
that State.]
7[(6) A factory or an establishment to which this act applies
shall continue to be governed by this Act notwithstanding that the number of persons
employed therein at any time falls below the limit specified by or under this
Act or the manufacturing process therein ceases to be carried on with the aid
of power.]
1. The words “except the State of Jammu and Kashmir” which were subs.
for “except Part B States” by Act 53 of 1951, s. 2, have been omitted by Act 51
of 1970, s. 2 and Sch. (w.e.f.1-9-1971).
2.For dates see Annexure.
3.Subs. by Act No. 53 of 1951, s. 2, for “for different States”.
4.Ins. by Act No. 29 of 1989, s. (i), (w.e.f. 20-10-1989).
5.Subs. by Act No. 53 of 1951, s. 2, for “with the approval of the Central
Government”.
6.Ins. by Act No. 29 of 1989, s. (ii), (w.e.f. 16-5-1990).
7.Ins. by Act No. 29 of 1989, s (iii), (w.e.f. 20-10-1989).
2.Definitions. -In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant
in the subject or context, -
(1)“Appropriate Government” means, in respect of establishments under
the control of the Central Government or 1[a railway administration] or
a major port or a mine or oilfield, the Central Government, and in all other cases,
the State Government;
2
* * * * * * * *
* * *
Provided
that in the case of the first benefit period a longer 3* * * period may
be specified by or under the regulations;]
(3)“Confinement” means labour resulting in the issue of a living child
or labour after twenty-six weeks of pregnancy resulting in the issue of a child
whether alive or dead;
(4)“Contribution” means the sum of money payable to the Corporation by
the principal employer in respect of an employee and includes any amount payable
by or on behalf of the employee in accordance with the provisions of this Act;
4
* * * * * * * *
* *
Provided
that in the case of the first contribution period a longer3 *** period
may be specified by or under the regulations;]
(6)“Corporation” means the Employees' State Insurance Corporation set
up under this Act;
5[(6A) “dependent” means any of the following relatives of a
deceased insured person, namely: -
(i)A widow, a minor legitimate or adopted son, an unmarried legitimate
or adopted 6[daughter]
7[(ia) A widowed mother;]
(ii)If wholly dependent on the earnings of the insured person at the
time of his death, a legitimate or adopted son or daughter who has attained the
age of eighteen years and is infirm;
(iii)If wholly or in part dependent on the earnings of the insured person
at the time of his death, -
(a)A parent other than a widowed mother,
(b)A minor illegitimate son, an unmarried illegitimate daughter or a
daughter legitimate or adopted or illegitimate if married and a minor or if widowed
and a minor;
(c)A minor brother or an unmarried sister or a widowed sister if a minor,
(d)A widowed daughter-in-law,
(e)A minor child of a pre-deceased son,
(f)A minor child of a pre-deceased daughter where no parent of the child
is alive, or
(g) A paternal grand-parent if no parent of the insured person is alive;]
(7)“Duly appointed” means appointed in accordance with the provisions
of this Act or with the rules or regulations made thereunder;
8[(8) “Employment injury” means a personal injury to an employee
caused by accident or an occupational disease arising out of and in the course
of his employment, being an insurable employment, whether the accident occurs
or the occupational disease is contracted within or outside the territorial limits
of India;]
(9)“Employee” means any person employed for wages in or in connection
with the work of a factory or establishment to which this Act applies and-
(i)Who is directly employed by the principal employer on any work of,
or incidental or preliminary to or connected with the work of, the factory or
establishment, whether such work is done by the employee in the factory or establishment
or elsewhere; or
(ii)Who is employed by or through an immediate employer on the premises
of the factory or establishment or under the supervision of the principal employer
or his agent on work which is ordinarily part of the work of the factory or establishment
or which is preliminary to the work carried on in or incidental to the purpose
of the factory or establishment; or
(iii)Whose services are temporarily lent or let on hire to the principal
employer by the person with whom the person whose services are so lent or let
on hire has entered into a contract of service;
(a)Whereon ten or more persons are employed or were employed for wages
on any day of the preceding twelve months, and in any part of which a manufacturing
process is being carried on with the aid of power or is ordinarily so carried
on, or
(b)Whereon twenty or more persons are employed or were employed for
wages on any day of the preceding twelve months, and in any part of which a manufacturing
process is being carried on without the aid of power or is ordinarily so carried
on,
But
does not include a mine subject to the operation of the Mines Act, 1952 (35 of
1952) or a railway running shed;]
(13)“Immediate employer”, in relation to employees employed by or through
him, means a person who has undertaken the execution, on the premises of a factory
or an establishment to which this Act applies or under the supervision of the
principal employer or his agent, of the whole or any part of any work which is
ordinarily part of the work of the factory or establishment of the principal employer
or is preliminary to the work carried on in, or incidental to the purpose of,
any such factory or establishment, and includes a person by whom the services
of an employee who has entered into a contract of service with him are temporarily
lent or let on hire to the principal employer 16and includes a contractor];
17[(13A) “Insurable employment” means an employment in a factory
or establishment to which this Act applies;]
(14)“Insured person” means a person who is or was an employee in respect
of whom contributions are or were payable under this Act and who is by reason
thereof, entitled to any of the benefits provided by this Act;
17[(14A) “Managing agent” means any person appointed or acting
as the representative of another person for the purpose of carrying on such other
person's trade or business, but does not include an individual manager subordinate
to an employer;
18[(14AA) “Manufacturing process” shall have the meaning assigned
to it in the Factories Act, 1948 (63 of 1948);]
(14B) “Mis-carriage” means expulsion of the contents of a pregnant uterus
at any period prior to or during the twenty-sixth week of pregnancy but does not
include any miscarriage, the causing of which is punishable under the Indian Penal
Code (45 of 1860);]
(15)“Occupier” of the factory shall have the meaning assigned to it
in the Factories Act, 19[1948 (63 of 1948)];
20[(15A) “Permanent partial disablement” means such disablement
of a permanent nature, as reduces the earning capacity of an employee in every
employment which he was capable of undertaking at the time of the accident resulting
in the disablement:
Provided
that every injury specified in Part II of the Second Schedule shall be deemed
to result in permanent partial disablement;
(15B) “Permanent total disablement” means such disablement of a permanent
nature as incapacitates an employee for all work which he was capable of performing
at the time of the accident in such disablement:
Provided
that permanent total disablement shall be deemed to result from every injury specified
in Part I of the Second Schedule or from any combination of injuries specified
in Part II thereof where the aggregate percentage of the loss of earning capacity,
as specified in the said Part II against those injuries, amounts to one hundred
percent or more;]
21[(15C)“Power” shall have the meaning assigned to it in the Factories
Act, 1948 (63 of 1948);]
(16)"Prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under this Act;
(17)“Principal employer” means-
(i)In a factory, the owner or occupier of the factory and includes the
managing agent of such owner or occupier, the legal representative of a deceased
owner or occupier, and where a person has been named as the manager of the factory
under 22[the Factories Act, 1948 (63 of 1948)], the person so named;
(ii)In any establishment under the control of any department of any
Government in India, the authority appointed by such Government in this behalf
or where no authority is so appointed, the head of the Department;
(iii) In any other establishment, any person responsible for the supervision
and control of the establishment;
(18)“Regulation” means a regulation made by the Corporation;
(19)"Schedule” means a Schedule to this Act;
23[(19A)“Seasonal factory” means a factory which is exclusively
engaged in one or more of the following manufacturing processes, namely, cotton
ginning, cotton or jute pressing, decortication of groundnuts, the manufacture
of coffee, indigo, lac, rubber, sugar (including gur) or tea or any manufacturing
process which is incidental to or connected with any of the aforesaid processes
and includes a factory which is engaged for a period not exceeding seven months
in a year-
(a)In any process of blending, packing or repacking of tea or coffee;
or
(b)In such other manufacturing process as the Central Government
may, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify] ;
(20)“Sickness” means a condition, which requires medical treatment and
attendance and necessitates abstention from work on medical grounds;
(21)“Temporary disablement” means a condition resulting from an employment
injury, which requires medical treatment and renders an employee, as a result
of such injury, temporarily incapable of 24[doing the work, which he was
doing prior to or at the time of the injury];
(22)“Wages” means all remuneration paid or payable in cash to an employee,
if the terms of the contract of employment, express or implied, were fulfilled
and includes 25[any payment to an employee in respect of any period of
authorised leave, lock-out, strike which is not illegal or layoff and] other additional
remuneration, if any, 26[paid at intervals not exceeding two months], but
does not include-
(a)Any contribution paid by the employer to any pension
fund or provident fund, or under this Act;
(b)Any travelling allowance
or the value of any travelling concession;
(c)Any sum paid to the
person employed to defray special expenses entailed on him by the nature of his
employment; or
(d)Any gratuity payable on discharge;
27[(23) “Wage period” in relation to an employee means the
period in respect of which wages are ordinarily payable to him whether in terms
of the contract of employment, express or implied or otherwise;]
28[(24) All other words and expressions used but not defined
in this Act and defined in the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (14 of 1947), shall
have the meanings respectively assigned to them in that Act.]
1. Subs. by the A.0. 1950, for “a federal railway”.
2. Cl. (2) omitted by Act No. 29 of 1989, s. 3 (i), (w.e.f. 1-2-1991).
3. The words “or shorter” omitted by Act No. 45 of 1984, s. 2
(w.e.f. 27-1-1985).
4. Cl. (5) omitted by Act No. 29 of 1989 s. 3 (ii) (w.e.f. 1-2-1991).
5. Ins. by Act No. 44 of 1966, s. 2 (w.e.f. 28-1-1968).
6. Subs. for “daughter or a widowed mother, and” by Act No. 29
of 1989, s. 3 (iii)(a), (w.e.f. 20-10-1989).
7. Ins. by Act No. 29 of 1989, s. 3(iii)(b), (w.e.f. 20-10-1989).
8. Subs. by Act No. 44 of 1966, s. 2 for the original cl. (w.e.f.
28-1-1968).
9. Subs. for “but does not include” by Act No. 29 of 1989, s.
3 (iv) (a), (w.e.f. 20-10-1989).
10. Subs. by Act No. 44 of 1966, s. 2, for “but does not include “
(w.e.f. 28-1-1968).
11. Subs. by the A.0. 1950, for “His Majesty's”.
12. Subs. by Act No. 44 of 1966, s. 2, for the original sub-clause
(w.e.f. 28-1-1968).
14. Subs. for “one thousand and six hundred rupees a month” by Act
No. 29 of 1989, s. 3 (iv) (b), (w.e.f. 1-2-1991).
15. Subs. for clauses (11) and (12) by Act No. 29 of 1989, s. 3 (v),
(w.e.f. 20-10-1989).
16. Added by Act No. 29 of 1989, s. 3 (vi), (w.e.f. 20-10-1989).
17. Ins. by Act No. 44 of 1966, s. 2 (w.e.f. 28-1-1968).
18. Ins. by Act No. 29 of 1989, s. 3 (vii), (w.e.f. 20-10-1989).
19. Subs. by Act No. 53 of 1951, s. 3, for “1934”.
20. Ins. by Act No. 44 of 1966, s. 2 (w.e.f. 28.1.68).
21. Ins. by Act No. 29 of 1989, s. 3 (vii), (w.e.f. 20-10-1989).
22. Subs. by Act No. 53 of 1951, s. 3, for “clause (e) of sub-section
of section 9 of the Factories Act, 1934”.
23. Ins. by Act No. 29 of 1989, s. 3 (ix) (w.e.f. 20-10-1989).
24. Subs. by Act No. 44 of 1966, s. 2, for “work” (w.e.f. 28-1-1968).
25. Ins. by Act No. 44 of 1966, s. 2 (w.e.f. 28-1-1968).
26. Subs. by Act No. 53 of 1951, s. 3, for “paid at regular intervals
after the last day of the wage period”.
27. Subs. by Act No. 45 of 1984, s. 2, for cl. (23) (w.e.f. 27-1-1985).
28. Sub. by Act No. 44 of 1966, s. 2, for the original cl. (w.e.f.
28-1-1968).
1[2A. Registration of
factories and establishments. -Every factory or establishment to which this
Act applies shall be registered within such time and in such manner as may be
specified in the regulations made in this behalf.]
1. Ins. by Act No. 44 of 1966, s. 3, (w.e.f.
28-1-1968).
* 1st October, 1948, vide Gazette of India,
1948, Extraordinary, p. 1441.
1. Short title, extent, commencement and application.
–
(1) This Act may be called the Employees' State Insurance Act, 1948.
(2) It extends to the whole of India1* * *.
(3) It shall come into force on such date or dates2 as the
Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint, and
different dates may be appointed for different provisions of this Act and 3[for
different States or for different parts thereof].
(4) It shall apply, in the first instance, to all factories (including
factories belonging to the Government) other than seasonal factories.
4[Provided
that nothing contained in this sub-section shall apply to a factory or establishment
belonging to or under the control of the Government whose employees are otherwise
in receipt of benefits substantially similar or superior to the benefits provided
under this Act.]
(5)
The appropriate Government may, in consultation with the corporation and 5[where
the appropriate Government is a State Government, with the approval of the Central
Government], after giving six months' notice of its intention of so doing by notification
in the Official Gazette, extend the provisions of this Act or any of them, to
any other establishment or class of establishments, industrial, commercial, agricultural
or otherwise.
6[provided
that where the provisions of this Act have been brought into force in any part
of a State, the said provisions shall stand extended to any such establishment
or class of establishments within that part if the provisions have already been
extended to similar establishment or class of establishments in another part of
that State.]
7[(6) A factory or an establishment to which this act applies
shall continue to be governed by this Act notwithstanding that the number of persons
employed therein at any time falls below the limit specified by or under this
Act or the manufacturing process therein ceases to be carried on with the aid
of power.]
1. The words “except the State of Jammu and Kashmir” which
were subs. for “except Part B States” by Act 53 of 1951, s. 2, have been omitted
by Act 51 of 1970, s. 2 and Sch. (w.e.f.1-9-1971).
2. For dates see Annexure.
3. Subs. by Act No. 53 of 1951, s. 2, for “for different States”.
4. Ins. by Act No. 29 of 1989, s. (i), (w.e.f. 20-10-1989).
5. Subs. by Act No. 53 of 1951, s. 2, for “with the approval
of the Central Government”.
6. Ins. by Act No. 29 of 1989, s. (ii), (w.e.f. 16-5-1990).
7. Ins. by Act No. 29 of 1989, s (iii), (w.e.f. 20-10-1989).
2. Definitions. -In this Act, unless there
is anything repugnant in the subject or context, -
(1) “Appropriate Government” means, in respect of establishments
under the control of the Central Government or 1[a railway administration]
or a major port or a mine or oilfield, the Central Government, and in all other
cases, the State Government;
2
* * * * * * * *
* * *
Provided
that in the case of the first benefit period a longer 3* * * period may
be specified by or under the regulations;]
(3) “Confinement” means labour resulting in the issue of a living
child or labour after twenty-six weeks of pregnancy resulting in the issue of
a child whether alive or dead;
(4) “Contribution” means the sum of money payable to the Corporation
by the principal employer in respect of an employee and includes any amount payable
by or on behalf of the employee in accordance with the provisions of this Act;
4
* * * * * * * *
* *
Provided
that in the case of the first contribution period a longer3 *** period
may be specified by or under the regulations;]
(6) “Corporation” means the Employees' State Insurance Corporation
set up under this Act;
5[(6A) “dependent” means any of the following relatives of a
deceased insured person, namely: -
(i) A widow, a minor legitimate or adopted son, an unmarried legitimate
or adopted 6[daughter]
7[(ia) A widowed mother;]
(ii) If wholly dependent on the earnings of the insured person
at the time of his death, a legitimate or adopted son or daughter who has attained
the age of eighteen years and is infirm;
(iii) If wholly or in part dependent on the earnings of the insured
person at the time of his death, -
(a) A parent other than a widowed mother,
(b) A minor illegitimate son, an unmarried illegitimate daughter
or a daughter legitimate or adopted or illegitimate if married and a minor or
if widowed and a minor;
(c) A minor brother or an unmarried sister or a widowed sister
if a minor,
(d) A widowed daughter-in-law,
(e) A minor child of a pre-deceased son,
(f) A minor child of a pre-deceased daughter where no parent of
the child is alive, or
(g) A paternal grand-parent if no parent of the insured person
is alive;]
(7) “Duly appointed” means appointed in accordance with the provisions
of this Act or with the rules or regulations made thereunder;
8[(8) “Employment injury” means a personal injury to an employee
caused by accident or an occupational disease arising out of and in the course
of his employment, being an insurable employment, whether the accident occurs
or the occupational disease is contracted within or outside the territorial limits
of India;]
(9) “Employee” means any person employed for wages in or in connection
with the work of a factory or establishment to which this Act applies and-
(i) Who is directly employed by the principal employer on any
work of, or incidental or preliminary to or connected with the work of, the factory
or establishment, whether such work is done by the employee in the factory or
establishment or elsewhere; or
(ii) Who is employed by or through an immediate employer on the
premises of the factory or establishment or under the supervision of the principal
employer or his agent on work which is ordinarily part of the work of the factory
or establishment or which is preliminary to the work carried on in or incidental
to the purpose of the factory or establishment; or
(iii) Whose services are temporarily lent or let on hire to the
principal employer by the person with whom the person whose services are so lent
or let on hire has entered into a contract of service;
10[And
includes any person employed for wages on any work connected with the administration
of the factory or establishment or any part, department or branch thereof of with
the purchase of raw materials for, or the distribution or sale of the products
of, the factory or establishment] 9[or any person engaged as apprentice,
not being an apprentice engaged under the Apprentice Act, 1961 (52 of 1961), or
under the standing orders of the establishment; but does not include]-
(a) Any member of 11[the Indian] naval, military or air
forces; or
12[(b) Any person so employed whose wages (excluding remuneration
for overtime work) exceed 14[such wages as may be prescribed by the Central
Government] a month:
Provided
that an employee whose wages (excluding remuneration for overtime work) exceed
14[such wages as may be prescribed by the Central Government] at any time
after (and not before) the beginning of the contribution period, shall continue
to be an employee until the end of that period;]
(10) “Exempted employee” means an employee who is not liable under
this Act to pay the employee's contribution;
15[(11) “Family” means all or any of the following relatives
of an insured person namely: -
(i) A spouse;
(ii) A minor legitimate or adopted child dependent upon the insured
person;
(iii) A child who is wholly dependent on the earnings of the insured
person and who is-
(a) Receiving education, till he or she attains the age of twenty
one years,
(b) An unmarried daughter;
(iv) A child who is infirm by reason of any physical or mental abnormality
or injury and is wholly dependent on the earnings of the insured person, so long
as the infirmity continues;
(v) Dependent parents;
(12) “Factory” means any premises including the precincts thereof-
(a) Whereon ten or more persons are employed or were employed
for wages on any day of the preceding twelve months, and in any part of which
a manufacturing process is being carried on with the aid of power or is ordinarily
so carried on, or
(b) Whereon twenty or more persons are employed or were employed
for wages on any day of the preceding twelve months, and in any part of which
a manufacturing process is being carried on without the aid of power or is ordinarily
so carried on,
But does not
include a mine subject to the operation of the Mines Act, 1952 (35 of 1952) or
a railway running shed;]
(13) “Immediate employer”, in relation to employees employed by or
through him, means a person who has undertaken the execution, on the premises
of a factory or an establishment to which this Act applies or under the supervision
of the principal employer or his agent, of the whole or any part of any work which
is ordinarily part of the work of the factory or establishment of the principal
employer or is preliminary to the work carried on in, or incidental to the purpose
of, any such factory or establishment, and includes a person by whom the services
of an employee who has entered into a contract of service with him are temporarily
lent or let on hire to the principal employer 16and includes a contractor];
17[(13A) “Insurable employment” means an employment in a factory
or establishment to which this Act applies;]
(14) “Insured person” means a person who is or was an employee in
respect of whom contributions are or were payable under this Act and who is by
reason thereof, entitled to any of the benefits provided by this Act;
17[(14A) “Managing agent” means any person appointed or acting
as the representative of another person for the purpose of carrying on such other
person's trade or business, but does not include an individual manager subordinate
to an employer;
18[(14AA) “Manufacturing process” shall have the meaning assigned
to it in the Factories Act, 1948 (63 of 1948);]
(14B) “Mis-carriage” means expulsion of the contents of a pregnant uterus
at any period prior to or during the twenty-sixth week of pregnancy but does not
include any miscarriage, the causing of which is punishable under the Indian Penal
Code (45 of 1860);]
(15) “Occupier” of the factory shall have the meaning assigned to
it in the Factories Act, 19[1948 (63 of 1948)];
20[(15A) “Permanent partial disablement” means such disablement
of a permanent nature, as reduces the earning capacity of an employee in every
employment which he was capable of undertaking at the time of the accident resulting
in the disablement:
Provided
that every injury specified in Part II of the Second Schedule shall be deemed
to result in permanent partial disablement;
(15B) “Permanent total disablement” means such disablement of a permanent
nature as incapacitates an employee for all work which he was capable of performing
at the time of the accident in such disablement:
Provided
that permanent total disablement shall be deemed to result from every injury specified
in Part I of the Second Schedule or from any combination of injuries specified
in Part II thereof where the aggregate percentage of the loss of earning capacity,
as specified in the said Part II against those injuries, amounts to one hundred
percent or more;]
21[(15C) “Power” shall have the meaning assigned to it
in the Factories Act, 1948 (63 of 1948);]
(16) “Prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under this Act;
(17) “Principal employer” means-
(i) In a factory, the owner or occupier of the factory and includes
the managing agent of such owner or occupier, the legal representative of a deceased
owner or occupier, and where a person has been named as the manager of the factory
under 22[the Factories Act, 1948 (63 of 1948)], the person so named;
(ii) In any establishment under the control of any department of
any Government in India, the authority appointed by such Government in this behalf
or where no authority is so appointed, the head of the Department;
(iii) In any other establishment, any person responsible for the
supervision and control of the establishment;
(18) “Regulation” means a regulation made by the Corporation;
(19) “Schedule” means a Schedule to this Act;
23[(19A) “Seasonal factory” means a factory which is
exclusively engaged in one or more of the following manufacturing processes, namely,
cotton ginning, cotton or jute pressing, decortication of groundnuts, the manufacture
of coffee, indigo, lac, rubber, sugar (including gur) or tea or any manufacturing
process which is incidental to or connected with any of the aforesaid processes
and includes a factory which is engaged for a period not exceeding seven months
in a year-
(a) In any process of blending, packing or repacking of tea or
coffee; or
(b) In such other manufacturing process as the Central Government
may, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify] ;
(20) “Sickness” means a condition, which requires medical treatment
and attendance and necessitates abstention from work on medical grounds;
(21) “Temporary disablement” means a condition resulting from an
employment injury, which requires medical treatment and renders an employee, as
a result of such injury, temporarily incapable of 24[doing the work, which
he was doing prior to or at the time of the injury];
(22) “Wages” means all remuneration paid or payable in cash to an
employee, if the terms of the contract of employment, express or implied, were
fulfilled and includes 25[any payment to an employee in respect of any
period of authorised leave, lock-out, strike which is not illegal or layoff and]
other additional remuneration, if any, 26[paid at intervals not exceeding
two months], but does not include-
(a) Any contribution paid by the employer to any pension fund or
provident fund, or under this Act;
(b) Any travelling allowance or the value of any travelling concession;
(c) Any sum paid to the person employed to defray special expenses
entailed on him by the nature of his employment; or
(d) Any gratuity payable on discharge;
27[(23) “Wage period” in relation to an employee means the
period in respect of which wages are ordinarily payable to him whether in terms
of the contract of employment, express or implied or otherwise;]
28[(24) All other words and expressions used but not defined
in this Act and defined in the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (14 of 1947), shall
have the meanings respectively assigned to them in that Act.]
1. Subs. by the A.0. 1950, for “a federal railway”.
2. Cl. (2) omitted by Act No. 29 of 1989, s. 3 (i), (w.e.f. 1-2-1991).
3. The words “or shorter” omitted by Act No. 45 of 1984, s. 2
(w.e.f. 27-1-1985).
4. Cl. (5) omitted by Act No. 29 of 1989 s. 3 (ii) (w.e.f. 1-2-1991).
5. Ins. by Act No. 44 of 1966, s. 2 (w.e.f. 28-1-1968).
6. Subs. for “daughter or a widowed mother, and” by Act No. 29
of 1989, s. 3 (iii)(a), (w.e.f. 20-10-1989).
7. Ins. by Act No. 29 of 1989, s. 3(iii)(b), (w.e.f. 20-10-1989).
8. Subs. by Act No. 44 of 1966, s. 2 for the original cl. (w.e.f.
28-1-1968).
9. Subs. for “but does not include” by Act No. 29 of 1989, s.
3 (iv) (a), (w.e.f. 20-10-1989).
10. Subs. by Act No. 44 of 1966, s. 2, for “but does not include “
(w.e.f. 28-1-1968).
11. Subs. by the A.0. 1950, for “His Majesty's”.
12. Subs. by Act No. 44 of 1966, s. 2, for the original sub-clause
(w.e.f. 28-1-1968).
14. Subs. for “one thousand and six hundred rupees a month” by Act
No. 29 of 1989, s. 3 (iv) (b), (w.e.f. 1-2-1991).
15. Subs. for clauses (11) and (12) by Act No. 29 of 1989, s. 3 (v),
(w.e.f. 20-10-1989).
16. Added by Act No. 29 of 1989, s. 3 (vi), (w.e.f. 20-10-1989).
17. Ins. by Act No. 44 of 1966, s. 2 (w.e.f. 28-1-1968).
18. Ins. by Act No. 29 of 1989, s. 3 (vii), (w.e.f. 20-10-1989).
19. Subs. by Act No. 53 of 1951, s. 3, for “1934”.
20. Ins. by Act No. 44 of 1966, s. 2 (w.e.f. 28.1.68).
21. Ins. by Act No. 29 of 1989, s. 3 (vii), (w.e.f. 20-10-1989).
22. Subs. by Act No. 53 of 1951, s. 3, for “clause (e) of sub-section
of section 9 of the Factories Act, 1934”.
23. Ins. by Act No. 29 of 1989, s. 3 (ix) (w.e.f. 20-10-1989).
24. Subs. by Act No. 44 of 1966, s. 2, for “work” (w.e.f. 28-1-1968).
25. Ins. by Act No. 44 of 1966, s. 2 (w.e.f. 28-1-1968).
26. Subs. by Act No. 53 of 1951, s. 3, for “paid at regular intervals
after the last day of the wage period”.
27. Subs. by Act No. 45 of 1984, s. 2, for cl. (23) (w.e.f. 27-1-1985).
28. Sub. by Act No. 44 of 1966, s. 2, for the original cl. (w.e.f.
28-1-1968).
1[2A. Registration of
factories and establishments. -Every factory or establishment to which this
Act applies shall be registered within such time and in such manner as may be
specified in the regulations made in this behalf.]
1.Ins. by Act No. 44 of 1966, s. 3, (w.e.f. 28-1-1968).
* 1st October, 1948, vide Gazette of India, 1948,
Extraordinary, p. 1441.