 the occupational safety, health and working conditions code, 2020—————— arrangement of clauses—————— chapter i preliminary clauses 1 short title, commencement and application2 definitions chapter ii registration 3 registration of certain establishments4 appeal 5 notice by employer of commencement and cessation of operation chapter iii duties of employer and amployees, etc 6 duties of employer7 duties and responsibilities of owner, agent and manager in relation to mine 8 duties of manufacturers, designers, importers or suppliers 9 duties of architect, project engineer and designer10 notice of certain accident 11 notice of certain dangerous occurrences 12 notice of certain diseases 13 duties of employee 14 rights of employee 15 duty not to interfere with or misuse things chapter iv occupational safety and health16 national occupational safety and health advisory board 17 state occupational safety and health advisory board 18 occupational safety and health standards 19 research related activities 20 safety and occupational health surveys 21 collection of statistics and portal for inter-state migrant workers 22 safety committee and safety officersclauses chapter v health safety and working conditions23 responsibility of employer for maintaining health, safety and working conditions chapter vi welfare provisions24 welfare facilities in the establishment, etc chapter vii hours of work and annual leave with wages25 daily and weekly working hours, leave, etc 26 weekly and compensatory holidays 27 extra wages for overtime 28 night shifts 29 prohibition of overlapping shifts 30 restriction on double employment in factory and mine 31 notice of periods of work 32 annual leave with wages, etc chapter viii maintenance of registers, records and returns 33 maintenance of registers, records and filing of returns chapter ix inspector-cum-facilitators and other authority 34 appointment of inspector-cum-facilitators35 powers of inspector-cum- facilitators 36 powers and duties of district magistrate 37 third party audit and certification 38 special powers of inspector- cum-facilitator in respect of factory, mines, dock workand building and other construction work39 secrecy of information by chief inspector-cum-facilitator or inspector-cum-facilitator,etc40 facilities to be afforded to the inspector-cum-facilitator 41 powers of special officer to enter, measure, etc, in relation to mine 42 medical officer chapter x special provision relating to employment of women 43 employment of women44 adequate safety of employment of women in dangerous operation chapter xi special provisions for contract labour and inter-state migrant worker, etc part i contract labour 45 applicability of this part clauses46 appointment of designated authority 47 licensing of contractors 48 procedure for issue or renewal of the licence 49 no fees or commission or any cost to workers 50 information regarding work order to be given to the appropriate government 51 revocation, suspension and amendment of licence 52 appeal 53 liability of principal employer for welfare facilities 54 effect of employing contract labour from a non-licenced contractor 55 responsibility for payment of wages 56 experience certificate 57 prohibition of employment of contract labour 58 power to exempt in special cases part ii inter-state migrant workers59 applicability of part ii 60 facilities to inter-state migrant workers 61 journey allowance 62 benefits of public distribution system etc 63 toll free helpline 64 study of inter-state migrant workers 65 past liabilities part iii audio-visual workers66 prohibition of employment of audio-visual worker without agreement part iv mines67 managers 68 code not to apply in certain cases 69 exemption from provision regarding employment 70 employment of persons below eighteen years of age 71 exemption to certain persons 72 establishment, maintenance of rescue services and vocational training 73 decision of question whether a mine is covered under this code part v beedi and cigar workers74 licence to industrial premises and person 75 appeals 76 permission to work by employees outside industrial premises 77 part not to apply to self-employed persons in private dwelling housesclausespart vibuilding and other construction workers78 prohibition of employment of certain persons in certain building or other constructionworkpart viifactories79 approval and licensing of factories 80 liability of owner of premises in certain circumstances 81 power to apply code to certain premises 82 dangerous operations 83 constitution of site appraisal committee 84 compulsory disclosure of information by occupier 85 specific responsibility of the occupier in relation to hazardous processes 86 national board to inquire into certain situations 87 emergency standards 88 permissible limits of exposure of chemicals and toxic substances 89 right of workers to warn about imminent danger 90 appeal against the order of inspector-cum-facilitator in case of factory 91 power to make rules to exempt part viii plantation 92 facilities for the workers in plantation 93 safetychapter xiioffences and penalties94 general penalty for offences 95 punishment for causing obstruction to chief inspector-cum-facilitator or inspectorcum-facilitator, etc96 penalty for non-maintenance of register, records and non-filing of returns, etc 97 punishment for contravention of certain provisions 98 punishment for falsification of records, etc 99 penalty for omission to furnish plans, etc100 punishment for disclosure of information 101 punishment for wrongfully disclosing results of analysis 102 punishment for contravention of provisions of duties relating to hazardous processes103 punishment for contravention of provisions of duties relating to safety provisionsresulting in an accident104 special provision for contravention of order under section 38 105 failure to appoint manager in mine 106 offences by employees 107 prosecution of owner, agent or manager of mine 108 exemption of owner, agent or manager of mine or occupier of factory from liability incertain cases109 offences by companies, etc clauses110 limitation of prosecution and cognizance of offences 111 power of officers of appropriate government to impose penalty in certain cases 112 jurisdiction of court for entertaining proceedings, etc, for offence 113 power of court to make orders 114 composition of certain offences chapter xiii social security fund115 social security fund chapter xiv miscellaneous116 delegation of powers 117 onus as to age 118 onus of proving limits of what is practicable, etc 119 common licence for contractor, factories and to industrial premises, etc 120 effect of law and agreements inconsistent with code 121 power of appropriate government to direct inquiry in certain cases 122 publication of reports 123 powers of central government to give directions 124 general restriction on disclosure of information 125 jurisdiction of civil courts barred 126 protection of action taken in good faith 127 power to exempt in special cases 128 power to exempt during public emergency 129 power to exempt public institution 130 persons required to give notice, etc, legally bound to do so 131 power of central government to amend the schedule 132 power to remove difficulties 133 power of appropriate government to make rules 134 power of central government to make rules 135 power of state government to make rules 136 power of central government to make regulations in relation to mines and dock work 137 prior publication of rules, etc 138 power to make regulation without previous publication 139 bye-laws 140 powers to regulate general safety and health 141 laying of regulations, rules, bye-laws, etc, before parliament 142 laying of rules made by state government 143 repeal and savings the first schedulethe second schedule the third schedulebill no 122 of  2020 the occupational safety, health and working conditions code, 2020 a billto consolidate and amend the laws regulating the occupational safety, health and working conditions of the persons employed in an establishment and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto be it enacted by parliament in the seventy-first year of the republic of india as follows:— chapter i preliminary(3) it shall not apply to the offices of the central government, offices of the state government and any ship of war of any nationality:5provided that the code shall apply in case of contract labour employed through contractor in the offices of the central government or in the offices of the state government, where, the central government or, as the case may be, the state government is the principal employerdefinitions2 (1) in this code, unless the context otherwise requires,—(a) "adolescent" shall have the same meaning as assigned to it in clause (i) of section 2 of the child and adolescent labour (prohibition and regulation) act, 1986;61 of 198610(b) "adult" means a person who has completed his eighteenth year of age; (c) "agent" when used in relation to a mine, means every person, whether appointed as such or not, who, acting or purporting to act on behalf of the owner, takes part in the management, control, supervision or direction of such mine or of any part thereof;15(d) "appropriate government" means—2025(i) in relation to, establishments [other than those specified in sub-clause (ii)] carried on by or under the authority of the central government or concerning any such controlled industry as may be specified in this behalf by the central government or the establishment of railway sincluding metro railways, mines, oil field, major ports, air transport service or telecommunication service, banking company or any insurance company (by whatever name called) established by a central act or a corporation or other authority established by a central act or a central public sector undertaking or subsidiary companies set up by the central public sector undertakings or autonomous bodies owned or controlled by the central government, including establishment of contractors for the purposes of such establishment, corporation or other authority, central public sector undertakings, subsidiary companies or autonomous bodies, as the case may be, the central government:30provided that in the case of central public sector undertakings the appropriate government shall continue to be the central government even if the holding of the central government reduces to less than fifty per cent equity of the central government in that public sector undertakings after the commencement of this code; and35(ii) in relation to a factory, motor transport undertaking, plantation, newspaper establishment and establishment relating to beedi and cigar including the establishments not specified in clause (i), the concerned state government where it is situated40explanation—for the removal of doubts it is hereby clarified that state government shall be the appropriate government in respect of occupational safety, health and working conditions in a factory situated in that state; (e) "audio-visual production" means audio-visual produced wholly or partly in india and includes—(i) animation, cartoon depiction, audio-visual advertisement;45(ii) digital production or any of the activities in respect of making thereof;and(iii) features films, non-feature films, television, web- based serials, talkshows, reality shows and sport shows;(f) "audio-visual worker" means a person, who is employed, directly or through any contractor, in or in connection with the audio-visual production to work as an5artist including actor, musician, singer, anchor, news reader, dancer, dubbing artist or stunt person or to do any work, skilled, unskilled, manual, supervisory, technical, artistic or otherwise, and his remuneration with respect to such employment in or in connection with the production of audio-visual does not exceed, where remuneration is by way of monthly wages or where such remuneration is by way of lump sum, in each case, such amount as may be notified by the central government;10 of 19491039 of 1989 5 of 19701540 of 1980(g) "banking company" means a banking company as defined in clause (c) of section 5 of the banking regulation act, 1949 and includes the export-import bank of india, the industrial reconstruction bank of india, the small industries development bank of india established under section 3 of the small industries development bank of india act, 1989, the reserve bank of india, the state bank of india, a corresponding new bank constituted under section 3 of the banking companies (acquisition and transfer of undertakings) act, 1970, a corresponding new bank constituted under section 3 of the banking companies (acquisition and transfer of undertakings) act, 1980;202530(h) "building or other construction work" means the construction, alteration, repairs, maintenance or demolition in relation to buildings, streets, roads, railways, tramways, airfields, irrigation, drainage, embankment and navigation works, flood control works (including storm water drainage works), generation, transmission and distribution of power, water works (including channels for distribution of water), oil and gas installations, electric lines, internet towers, wireless, radio, television, telephone, telegraph and overseas communications, dams, canals, reservoirs, watercourses, tunnels, bridges, viaducts, aqua-ducts, pipelines, towers, cooling towers, transmission towers and such other work as may be specified in this behalf by the central government, by notification, but does not include building or other construction work which is related to any factory or mine and the building or other construction work where such work is for own residential purposes of an individual or group of individuals for their own residence and the total cost of such work does not exceed rupees fifty lakhs or such higher amount and employing more than such number of workers as may be notified by the appropriate government;35(i) "building worker" means a person who is employed to do any highly skilled,skilled, semi-skilled or unskilled, manual, technical or clerical work for hire or reward, whether the terms of such employment are express or implied, in connection with any building or other construction work, but does not include any such person who is employed mainly in a managerial or supervisory or administrative capacity;(j) "cargo" includes anything carried or to be carried in a ship or other vessel, or vehicle;(k) "chief inspector-cum-facilitator" means a chief inspector-cum-facilitator appointed under sub-section (5) of section 34;40(l) "competent person", means a person or an institution recognised as such bythe chief inspector-cum-facilitator for the purposes of carrying out tests, examinations and inspections required to be done in an establishment having regard to—(i) the qualifications and experience of the person and facilities available at his disposal; or45(ii) the qualifications and experience of the persons employed in suchinstitution and facilities available therein:50provided that in case of mines the competent person includes such other person who is authorised by the manager referred to in section 67 to supervise or perform any work, or to supervise the operation of machinery, plant or equipment and is responsible for such duties assigned to him and also includes a shot firer or blaster;510(m) "contract labour" means a worker who shall be deemed to be employed in or in connection with the work of an establishment when he is hired in or in connection with such work by or through a contractor, with or without the knowledge of the principal employer and includes inter-state migrant worker but does not include a worker (other than part time employee) who is regularly employed by the contractor for any activity of his establishment and his employment is governed by mutually accepted standards of the conditions of employment (including engagement on permanent basis), and gets periodical increment in the pay, social security coverage and other welfare benefits in accordance with the law for the time being in force in such employment;(n) "contractor", in relation to an establishment, means a person, who—(i) 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; or15(ii) supplies contract labour for any work of the establishment as mere human resource, and includes a sub-contractor;(o) "controlled industry" means any industry the control of which by the central government has been declared under any central act in the public interest;20(p) "core activity of an establishment" means any activity for which the establishment is set up and includes any activity which is essential or necessary to such activity:provided that the following shall not be considered as essential or necessary activity, if the establishment is not set up for such activity, namely:—25(i) sanitation works, including sweeping, cleaning, dusting and collectionand disposal of all kinds of waste;(ii) watch and ward services including security services; (iii) canteen and catering services; (iv) loading and unloading operations;30(v) running of hospitals, educational and training institutions, guesthouses, clubs and the like where they are in the nature of support services of an establishment;(vi) courier services which are in nature of support services of anestablishment;(vii) civil and other constructional works, including maintenance;35(viii) gardening and maintenance of lawns and other like activities; (ix) housekeeping and laundry services, and other like activities, wherethese are in nature of support services of an establishment;(x) transport services including, ambulance services;40(xi) any activity of intermittent nature even if that constitutes a core activity of an establishment; (q) "day" means a period of twenty-four hours beginning at mid-night;45(r) "district magistrate", in relation to any mine, means the district magistrate or the deputy commissioner, as the case may be, who is vested with the executive powers of maintaining law and order in the revenue district in which the mine is situated:provided that in case of a mine, which is situated partly in one district and partly in another, the district magistrate for the purpose shall be the district magistrate authorised in this behalf by the central government;5(s) "dock work" means any work in or within the vicinity of any port in connection with, or required for, or incidental to, the loading, unloading, movement or storage of cargoes into or from ship or other vessel, port, dock, storage place or landing place, and includes—(i) work in connection with the preparation of ships or other vessels for receipt or discharge of cargoes or leaving port;10(ii) all repairing and maintenance processes connected with any hold,tank structure or lifting machinery or any other storage area on board the ship or in the docks; and(iii) chipping, painting or cleaning of any hold, tank, structure or lifting machinery or any other storage area on board the ship or in the docks;15(t) "employee" means,—52 of 196120(i) in respect of an establishment, a person (other than an apprentice engaged under the apprentices act, 1961) employed on wages by an establishment to do any skilled, semi-skilled, unskilled, manual, operational, supervisory, managerial, administrative, technical, clerical or any otherwork, whether the terms of employment be express or implied; and(ii) a person declared to be an employee by the appropriate government, but does not include any member of the armed forces of the union:25provided that notwithstanding anything contained in this clause, in case of a mine a person is said to be "employed" in a mine who works as the manager or who works under appointment by the owner, agent or manager of the mine or with the knowledge of the manager, whether for wages or not—(a) in any mining operation (including the concomitant operations of handling and transport of minerals upto the point of dispatch and of gathering sand and transport thereof to the mine);30(b) in operations or services relating to the development of the mine including construction of plant therein but excluding construction of buildings, roads, wells and any building work not directly connected with any existing or future mining operations;35(c) in operating, servicing, maintaining or repairing any part of any machinery used in or about the mine;(d) in operations, within the premises of the mine, of loading for dispatch of minerals;(e) in any office of mine;40(f) in any welfare, health, sanitary or conservancy services required to be providedunder this code relating to mine, or watch and ward, within the premises of the mine excluding residential area; or(g) in any kind of work, whatsoever, which is preparatory or incidental to, or connected with, mining operations;45(u) "employer" means a person who employs, whether directly or through any person, or on his behalf, or on behalf of any person, one or more employees in his establishment and where the establishment is carried on by any department of the central government or the state government, the authority specified, by the head of such department, in this behalf or where no authority, is so specified, the head of the department and in relation to an establishment carried on by a local authority, the chief executive of that authority, and includes,—5(i) in relation to an establishment which is a factory, the occupier of the factory;(ii) in relation to mine, the owner of the mine, agentor manager referred to in section 67;10(iii) in relation to any other establishment, the person who, or the authority which has ultimate control over the affairs of the establishment and where said affairs are entrusted to a manager or managing director, such manager or managing director;(iv) contractor; and (v) legal representative of a deceased employer;(v) "establishment" means—15(i) a place where any industry, trade, business, manufacturing or occupation is carried on in which ten or more workers are employed; or(ii) motor transport undertaking, newspaper establishment, audio-video production, building and other construction work or plantation, in which ten or more workers are employed; or20(iii) factory, for the purpose of chapter ii, in which ten or more workers are employed, notwithstanding the threshold of workers provided in clause (w); or(iv) a mine or port or vicinity of port where dock work is carried out:25provided that in sub-clauses (i) and (ii), the threshold of worker specified therein shall not be applicable in case of such establishment or class of establishments, in which such hazardous or life threatening activity is being carried on, as may be notified by the central government:30provided further that notwithstanding any threshold provided in the definition of factory in clause (w), for the purposes of chapter ii, the establishment specified in sub-clause (i) or sub-clause (ii) or sub-clause (iii) shall be deemed to be the establishment within the meaning of this clause though the number of employees employed are ten or more; (w) "factory" means any premises including the precincts thereof—35(i) whereon twenty or more workers are working, or were working 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; or40(ii) whereon forty or more workers are working, or were working 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 mobile unit belonging to the armed forces of the union, railways running shed or a hotel, restaurant or eating place:45provided that where under any law for the time being in force in a state immediately before the commencement of this code, the number of workers specified is more or less than the number specified in clause (i) or clause (ii), then, the number specified under the law of the state shall prevail in that state till it is amended by the competent legislatureexplanation i—for computing the number of workers for the purposes of this clause all the workers (in different groups and relays) in a day shall be taken into account5explanation ii—for the purposes of this clause, the mere fact that an electronic data processing unit or a computer unit is installed in any premises or part thereof, shall not be construed as factory if no manufacturing process is being carried on in such premises or part thereof; (x) "family", when used in relation to a worker, means—(i) spouse;10(ii) children including adopted children of the worker who are dependentupon him and have not completed the age of eighteen years; and(iii) parents, grand-parents, widowed daughter and widowed sisterdependent upon such worker15explanation—for the purposes of this clause, such dependents shall not be included who are, for the time being, getting such income from such sources, as may be prescribed by the appropriate government;20(y) "godown" means any warehouse or other place, by whatever name called, used for the storage of any article or substance required for any manufacturing process which means any process for, or incidental to, making, finishing or packing or otherwise treating any article or substance with a view to its use, sale, transport, delivery or disposal as finished products;(z) "hazardous" means involving danger or potential danger;25(za) "hazardous process" means any process or activity in relation to an industry or plantation specified in the first schedule where, unless special care is taken, raw materials used therein or the intermediate or finished products, bye- products, hazardous substances, wastes or effluents thereof or spraying of any pesticides, insecticides or chemicals used therein, as the case may be, would—(i) cause material impairment to the health of the persons engaged in or connected therewith, or30(ii) result in the pollution of the general environment;(zb) "hazardous substance" means any substance or such quantity of the substance as may be prescribed by the appropriate government or preparation of which by reason of its chemical or physio-chemical properties or handling is liable to cause physical or health hazards to human being or may cause harm to other living creatures, plants, micro-organisms, property or the environment;35(zc) "industrial premises" means any place or premises (not being a private dwelling house), including the precincts thereof, in which or in any part of which any industry, trade, business, occupation or manufacturing is being ordinarily carried on with or without the aid of power and includes a godown attached thereto;4045(zd) "industry" means any systematic activity carried on by co-operationbetween an employer and worker (whether such worker is employed by such employer directly or by or through any agency, including a contractor) for the production, supply or distribution of goods or services with a view to satisfy human wants or wishes (not being wants or wishes which are merely spiritual or religious in nature), whether or not,—(i) any capital has been invested for the purpose of carrying on such activity; or(ii) such activity is carried on with a motive to make any gain or profit, but does not include—(a) institutions owned or managed by organisations wholly or substantially engaged in any charitable, social or philanthropic services; or5(b) any activity of the appropriate government relatable to the sovereign functions of the appropriate government including all the activities carried on by the departments of the central government dealing with defence research, atomic energy and space; or(c) any domestic service; or10(d) any other activity as may be notified by the central government;(ze) "inspector-cum-facilitator" means an inspector-cum-facilitator appointed under sub-section (1) of section 34;(zf) "inter-state migrant worker" means a person who is employed in an establishment and who—15(i) has been recruited directly by the employer or indirectly through contractor in one state for employment in such establishment situated in another state; or20(ii) has come on his own from one state and obtained employment in an establishment of another state (hereinafter called destination state) or has subsequently changed the establishment within the destination state, under an agreement or other arrangement for such employment and draws wages not exceeding the amount of rupees eighteen thousand per month or such higher amount as may be notified by the central government from time to time;25(zg) "machinery" means any article or combination of articles assembled, arranged or connected and which is used or intended to be used for converting any form of energy to perform work, or which is used or intended to be used, whether incidental thereto or not, for developing, receiving, storing, containing, confining, transforming, transmitting, transferring or controlling any form of energy;3015 of 1908(zh) "major port" means a major port as defined in clause (8) of section 3 of the indian ports act, 1908;(zi) "manufacturing process" means any process for—35(i) making, altering, repairing, ornamenting, finishing, packing, oiling, washing, cleaning, breaking up, demolishing, or otherwise treating or adapting any article or substance with a view to its use, sale, transport, delivery or disposal; or(ii) pumping oil, water, sewage or any other substance; or (iii) generating, transforming or transmitting power; or40(iv) composing, printing, printing by letter press, lithography, offset, photogravure screen printing, three dimensional or four dimensional printing, prototyping, flexography or other types of printing process or book binding; or(v) constructing, reconstructing, repairing, refitting, finishing, or breaking up ships or vessels; or(vi) preserving or storing any article in cold storage; or (vii) such other processes as the central government may notify;(zj) "medical officer" means the medical officer appointed under sub-section (1)of section 42;60 of 2002(zk) "metro railway" means the metro railway as defined in sub-clause (i) of clause (1) of section 2 of the metro railways (operation and maintenance) act, 2002;5(zl) "mine" means any excavation where any operation for the purpose of searching for or obtaining minerals has been or is being carried on and includes—(i) all borings, bore holes, oil wells and accessory crude conditioningplants, including the pipe conveying mineral oil within the oilfields;(ii) all shafts, in or adjacent to and belonging to a mine, whether in thecourse of being sunk or not;10(iii) all levels and inclined planes in the course of being driven; (iv) all open cast workings; (v) all conveyors or aerial ropeways provided for bringing into or removalfrom a mine of minerals or other articles or for the removal of refuse therefrom;15(vi) all adits, levels, planes, machinery, works, railways, tramways andsidings in or adjacent to and belonging to a mine;(vii) all protective works being carried out in or adjacent to a mine;20(viii) all workshops and stores situated within the precincts of a mine andunder the same management and used primarily for the purposes connected with that mine or a number of mines under the same management;(ix) all power stations, transformer sub-stations, converter stations,rectifier stations and accumulator storage stations for supplying electricity solely or mainly for the purpose of working the mine or a number of mines under the same management;25(x) any premises for the time being used for depositing sand or othermaterial for use in a mine or for depositing refuse from a mine or in which any operations in connection with such sand refuse or other material is being carried on, being premises exclusively occupied by the owner of the mine;30(xi) any premises in or adjacent to and belonging to a mine on which anyprocess ancillary to the getting, dressing or preparation for sale of minerals or coke is being carried on;(xii) a mine owned by the government;35(zm) "minerals" means all substances which can be obtained from the earth by mining, digging, drilling, dredging, hydraulicing, quarrying, or by any other operation and includes mineral oils (such as natural gas and petroleum);(zn) "motor transport undertaking" means a motor transport undertaking employing motor transport worker and engaged in carrying passengers or goods or both by road for hire or reward, and includes a private carrier;40(zo) "motor transport worker" means a person who is employed in a motortransport undertaking directly or through an agency, whether for wages or not, to work in a professional capacity on a transport vehicle or to attend the duties in connection with the arrival, departure, loading or unloading of such transport vehicle and includes a driver, conductor, cleaner, station staff, line checking staff, booking clerk, cash clerk, depot clerk, time-keeper, watchman or attendant, but does not include any such person—45(i) who is employed in a factory;(ii) to whom the provisions of any other law for the time being in force regulating the conditions of service of persons employed in shops or commercial establishments apply;5(zp) "newspaper" means any printed periodical work containing public news or comments on public news and includes such other class of printed periodical work as may, from time to time, be notified in this behalf by the central government;10(zq) "newspaper establishment" means an establishment under the control of any person or body of persons, whether incorporated or not, for the production or publication of one or more newspapers or for conducting any news agency or syndicate and includes following newspaper establishments which shall be deemed to be one establishment, namely:—(i) two or more newspaper establishments under common control;15(ii) two or more newspaper establishments owned by an individual and his or her spouse unless it is shown that such spouse is a sole proprietor or partner or a shareholder of a corporate body on the basis of his or her own individual funds;20(iii) two or more newspaper establishments publishing newspapers bearing the same or similar title and in the same language in any place in india or bearing the same or similar title but in different languages in the same state or union territoryexplanation 1—for the purposes of sub-clause (i) two or more establishments shall be deemed to be under common control where—(a) (i) the newspaper establishments are owned by a common individual or individuals;25(ii) the newspaper establishments are owned by firms, if such firms have a substantial number of common partners;30(iii) the newspaper establishments are owned by bodies corporate, if one body corporate is a subsidiary of the other body corporate, or both are subsidiaries of a common holding company or a substantial number of their equity shares are owned by the same person or group of persons, whether incorporated or not;(iv) one establishment is owned by a body corporate and the other is owned by a firm, if a substantial number of partners of the firm together hold a substantial number of equity shares of the body corporate;35(v) one is owned by a body corporate and the other is owned by a firm having bodies corporate as its partners if a substantial number of equity shares of such bodies corporate are owned, directly or indirectly, by the same person or group of persons, whether incorporated or not, or40(b) there is functional integrality between concerned newspaper establishmentsexplanation 2—for the purposes of this clause,—(i) different departments, branches and centres of newspaper establishments shall be treated as parts thereof;45(ii) a printing press shall be deemed to be a newspaper establishment if the principal business thereof is to print newspaper;(zr) "notification" means a notification published in the gazette of india or the official gazette of a state, as the case may be, and the expression "notify" with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions shall be construed accordingly;(zs) "occupier" of a factory means the person who has ultimate control over the affairs of the factory:provided that—(i) in the case of a firm or other association of individuals, any one of the individual partners or members thereof;518 of 2013(ii) in the case of a company, any one of the directors, except any independent director within the meaning of sub-section (6) of section 149 of the companies act, 2013;10(iii) in the case of a factory owned or controlled by the central government or any state government, or any local authority, the person or persons appointed to manage the affairs of the factory by the central government, the state government or the local authority or such other authority as may be prescribed by the central government, shall be deemed to be the occupier:15 20provided further that in the case of a ship which is being repaired, or on which maintenance work is being carried out, in a dry dock which is available for hire, the owner of the dock shall be deemed to be the occupier for all purposes except the matters as may be prescribed by the central government which are directly related to the condition of ship for which the owner of ship shall be deemed to be the occupier; (zt) "office of the mine" means an office at the surface of the mine concerned;25(zu) "open cast working" means a quarry, that is to say, an excavation where any operation for the purpose of searching for or obtaining minerals has been or is being carried on, not being a shaft or an excavation which extends below superjacent ground;30(zv) "ordinarily employed" with reference to any establishment or part thereof, means the average number of persons employed per day in the establishment or part thereof during the preceding calendar year obtained by dividing the number of man days worked by the number of working days excluding rest days and other non-working days;35(zw) "owner", in relation to a mine, means any person who is the immediate proprietor or lessee or occupier of the mine or of any part thereof and in case of a mine the business whereof is being carried on by a liquidator or receiver, such liquidator or receiver; but does not include a person who merely receives a royalty, rent or fine from the mine, or is merely the proprietor of the mine, subject to any lease grant or licence for the working thereof, or is merely the owner of the soil and not interested in the minerals of the mine; but any contractor or sub-lessee for the working of a mine or any part thereof shall be subject to this code in like manner as if he were an owner but not so as to exempt the former from any liability;40(zx) "plantation" means—(a) any land used or intended to be used for—(i) growing tea, coffee, rubber, cinchona or cardamom which admeasures five hectares or more;45(ii) growing any other plant, which admeasures five hectares ormore and in which persons are employed or were employed on any day of the preceding twelve months, if, after obtaining the approval of the central government, the state government, by notification, so directsexplanation—where any piece of land used for growing any plant referred to in this sub-clause admeasures less than five 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-clause, the former piece of land shall be deemed to be a plantation, if the total area of both such pieces of land admeasures five hectares or more; and5(b) any land which the state government may, by notification, declare and which is used or intended to be used for growing any plant referred to in sub-clause (a), notwithstanding that it admeasures less than five hectares:10provided that no such declaration shall be made in respect of such land which admeasures less than five hectares immediately before the commencement of this code; and(c) offices, hospitals, dispensaries, schools and any other premises used for any purpose connected with any plantation within the meaning of sub-clause (a) and sub-clause (b); but does not include factory on the premises;15(zy) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made by the appropriate government under this code;(zz) "principal employer", where the contract labour is employed or engaged, means—20(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, 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, the person so named;(iii) in a mine, the owner or agent of the mine;25(iv) in relation to any other establishment, any person responsible for the supervision and control of the establishment;30(zza) "producer", in relation to audio-visual production, means the company, firm or other person by whom the arrangements necessary for producing such audio-visual (including the raising of finances and engaging audio-visual workers for producing audio-visual) are undertaken18 of 2013 ix of 1932explanation—for the purposes of this clause, the expressions "company"and "firm" have the same meaning as respectively assigned to them in the companies act, 2013 and the indian partnership act, 1932;35102 of 1956(zzb) "qualified medical practitioner" means a medical practitioner who possesses any recognised medical qualification as defined in clause (i) of section 2 of the indian medical council act, 1956 and who is enrolled on a indian medical register as defined in clause (e) and on a state medical register as defined in clause (l) of the said section;24 of 1989(zzc) "railway" means the railway as defined in clause (31) of section 2 of the railways act, 1989;40(zzd) "relay" means a set of two or more persons carrying out the same kind of work during different periods of the day and each such period is called a "shift";45(zze) "sales promotion employees" means any person by whatever name called employed or engaged in any establishment for hire or reward to do any work relating to promotion of sales or business, or both, but does not include any such person who,—(i) being employed or engaged in a supervisory capacity, draws wages exceeding eighteen thousand rupees per mensem or an amount as may be notified by the central government from time to time; or(ii) is employed or engaged mainly in a managerial or administrative capacity (zzf) "schedule" means the schedule appended to this code;5(zzg) "serious bodily injury" means any injury which involves, or in all probability will involve, the permanent loss of any part or section of a body or the use of any part or section of a body, or the permanent loss of or injury to the sight or hearing or any permanent physical incapacity or the fracture of any bone or one or more joints or bones of any phalanges of hand or foot;10(zzh) "standards", "regulations", "rules", "bye laws" and "orders" respectively means standards, regulations, rules, bye-laws and orders made or declared, as the case may be, under this code;(zzi) "telecommunication service" means the telecommunication service as defined in clause (k) of sub-section (1) of section 2 of the telecom regulatory authority of india act, 1997;24 of 199715(zzj) "wages" means all remuneration whether by way of salaries, allowances or otherwise, expressed in terms of money or capable of being so expressed which would, if the terms of employment, express or implied, were fulfilled, be payable to a person employed in respect of his employment or of work done in such employment, and includes,—(i) basic pay;20(ii) dearness allowance; and (iii) retaining allowance, if any,but does not include—25(a) any bonus payable under any law for the time being in force, whichdoes not form part of the remuneration payable under the terms of employment;(b) the value of any house-accommodation, or of the supply of light,water, medical attendance or other amenity or of any service excluded from the computation of wages by a general or special order of the appropriate government;30(c) any contribution paid by the employer to any pension or providentfund, and the interest which may have accrued thereon;(d) any conveyance allowance or the value of any travelling concession; (e) any sum paid to the employed person to defray special expensesentailed on him by the nature of his employment;35(f) house rent allowance; (g) remuneration payable under any award or settlement between theparties or order of a court or tribunal;(h) any overtime allowance; (i) any commission payable to the employee; (j) any gratuity payable on the termination of employment;40(k) any retrenchment compensation or other retirement benefit payable tothe employee or any ex gratia payment made to him on the termination of employment:45provided that, for calculating the wages under this clause, if payments made by the employer to the employee under sub-clauses (a) to (i) exceeds one-half, or such other per cent as may be notified by the central government, of the all remuneration calculated under this clause, the amount which exceeds such one-half, or the per cent so notified, shall be deemed as remuneration and shall be accordingly added in wages under this clause:5provided further that for the purpose of equal wages to all genders and for the purpose of payment of wages, the emoluments specified in sub-clauses (d), (f), (g) and (h) shall be taken for computation of wages10explanation—where an employee is given in lieu of the whole or part of the wages payable to him, any remuneration in kind by his employer, the value of such remuneration in kind which does not exceed fifteen per cent of the total wages payable to him, shall be deemed to form part of the wages of such employee;15(zzk) "week" means a period of seven days beginning at midnight on saturday night or such other night as may be approved in writing for a particular area by the chief inspector-cum-facilitator;20(zzl) "worker" means any person employed in any establishment to do any manual, unskilled, skilled, technical, operational, clerical or supervisory work for hire or reward, whether the terms of employment be express or implied, and includes working journalists and sales promotion employees, but does not include any such person—(i) who is subject to the air force act, 1950, or the army act, 1950, or the navy act, 1957; or45 of 1950 46 of 1950 62 of 1957(ii) who is employed in the police service or as an officer or other employee of a prison; or25(iii) who is employed mainly in a managerial or administrative capacity;or(iv) who is employed in a supervisory capacity drawing wage exceeding eighteen thousand rupees per month or an amount as may be notified by the central government from time to time;30 35(zzm) "working journalist" means a person whose principal avocation is that of a journalist and who is employed as such, either whole-time or part-time, in, or in relation to, one or more newspaper establishment, or other establishment relating to any electronic media or digital media such as newspaper or radio or other likemedia and includes an editor, a leader-writer, news editor, sub-editor, feature-writer, copytester, reporter, correspondent, cartoonist, news-photographer and proof-reader, but does not include any such person who is employed mainly in a managerial, supervisory or administrative capacity; (2) for the purposes of this code, a person working or employed in or in connection with mine is said to be working or employed—(a) "below ground" if he is working or employed—(i) in a shaft which has been or is in the course being sunk; or (ii) in any excavation which extends below superjacent ground; and(b) "above ground" if he is working in an opencast working or in any other manner not specified in clause (a) chapter ii registration3 (1) every employer of any establishment,—| (               ||-----------------|| registration    || of certain      || establishments |5(b) to which this code shall apply, shall, within sixty days from the date of such applicability of this code, make an application electronically to the registering officer appointed by the appropriate government (hereinafter referred to as the registering officer) for the registration of such establishment:10provided that the registering officer may entertain any such application forregistration after the expiry of such period on payment of such late fees as may be prescribed by the appropriate government15(2) every application under sub-section (1) shall be submitted to the registering officer in such manner, in such form, containing such particulars including the information relating to the employment of inter-state migrant workers and shall be accompanied by such fees as may be prescribed by the appropriate government(3) after the receipt of an application under sub-section (1), the registering officer shall register the establishment and issue a certificate of registration electronically to the employer thereof in such form and within such time and subject to such conditions as may be prescribed by the central government:20provided that if the registering officer fails to register an establishment under theapplication so made or to entertain the application within the prescribed period, then, such establishment shall be deemed to have been registered under this code immediately on the expiration of such period and the electronic certificate of registration shall be auto generated and the responsibility of such failure shall be on the registering officer2530(4) any change in the ownership or management or in any particulars referred to insub-section (2) which occurs after the registration of an establishment under this code,shall be intimated by the employer electronically to the registering officer within thirty days of such change in such form as may be prescribed by the central government and thereafter the registering officer shall make amendment in the certificate of registration electronically in such manner as may be prescribed by the central government(5) the employer of an establishment shall, within thirty days of the closing of the establishment—(a) inform the closing of such establishment; and (b) certify payment of all dues to the workers employed in such establishment,35to the registering officer in such manner as may be prescribed by the central government and the registering officer shall, on receiving such information and certificate remove such establishment from the register of establishments maintained by him and cancel the registration certificate of the establishment within sixty days from the receipt of such information :40 45provided that if the registering officer fails to cancel the registration certificationof the establishment under this sub-section within such sixty days, then, the registration certificate of such establishment shall be deemed to have been cancelled under this code immediately on the expiration of such period of sixty days and the cancellation of registration certificate shall be auto generated and the responsibility of such failure shall be on the registering officer(6) if an employer of an establishment—(a) has obtained the registration of his establishment by misrepresentation or suppression of any material fact, or(b) has obtained the registration of his establishment so fraudulently or otherwise that the registration has become useless or ineffective to run the establishment,5then, in case of clause (a) such misrepresentation or suppression of any material fact shall be deemed to be the contravention of the provisions of this code for prosecution of the employer under section 94 without affecting the registration and running of the establishment and in case of clause (b) the registering officer may, after giving an opportunity to the employer of the establishment to be heard, revoke the registration and such process for revocation shall be completed by the registering officer within sixty days from coming into his notice the facts specified in clause (b)10(7) no employer of an establishment who—(a) has not registered the establishment under this section; or15(b) has not preferred appeal under section 4 against the cancellation of the registration certificate of the establishment under sub-section (5) or revocation of the registration of the establishment under sub-section (6) or the appeal so preferred has been dismissed, shall employ any employee in the establishment(8) notwithstanding anything contained in this code, where any establishment, to which this code applies, has already been registered under any—| (                                                                                    | a   | ) central labour law; or                                                  ||--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-----|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|| 20                                                                                   |     |                                                                           || (                                                                                    | b   | ) any other law which may be notified by the central government and which || appliesto the establishment which is in existence at the time of the commencement of |     |                                                                           || this code,                                                                           |     |                                                                           || 25                                                                                   |     |                                                                           |shall be deemed to have been registered under the provisions of this code, subject to the condition that the registration holder provides the details of registration to the concerned registering officer within such time and in such form as may be prescribedappeal4 (1) any person aggrieved by an order made under section 3 may, within thirty daysfrom the date on which the order is communicated to him, prefer an appeal to an appellate officer who shall be a person notified in this behalf by the appropriate government:30provided that the appellate officer may entertain the appeal after the expiry of the saidperiod of thirty days, if he is satisfied that the appellant was prevented by sufficient cause from filing the appeal in time(2) on receipt of an appeal under sub-section (1), the appellate officer shall, after giving the appellant an opportunity of being heard, dispose of the appeal within a period of thirty days from the date of receipt of such appeal35notice by employer of commencement and cessation of operation405 (1) no employer of an establishment being factory or mine or relating to contractlabour or building or other construction work shall use such establishment to commence the operation of any industry, trade, business, manufacturing or occupation thereon without sending notice of such purpose in such form and manner and to such authority and within such time as may be prescribed and shall also intimate the cessation thereof to the said authority in such manner as may be prescribed by the appropriate government(2) the notice or intimation under sub-section (1) shall be given electronically chapter iii duties of employer and employees, etc6 (1) every employer shall,—duties of employer45(a) ensure that work place is free from hazards which cause or are likely to causeinjury or occupational disease to the employees;(b) comply with the occupational safety and health standards declared under section 18 or the regulations, rules, bye-laws or orders made under this code;5(c) provide such annual health examination or test free of costs to suchemployees of such age or such class of employees or establishments or such class of establishments, as may be prescribed by the appropriate government;(d) provide and maintain, as far as is reasonably practicable, a workingenvironment that is safe and without risk to the health of the employees;(e) ensure the disposal of hazardous and toxic waste including disposal ofe-waste;10(f) issue a letter of appointment to every employee on his appointment in theestablishment, with such information and in such form as may be prescribed by the appropriate government and where an employee has not been issued such appointment letter on or before the commencement of this code, he shall, within three months of such commencement, be issued such appointment letter;15(g) ensure that no charge is levied on any employee, in respect of anythingdone or provided for maintenance of safety and health at work place including conduct of medical examination and investigation for the purpose of detecting occupational diseases;20(h) relating to factory, mine, dock work, building or other construction work orplantation, ensure and be responsible for the safety and health of employees, workers and other persons who are on the work premises of the employer, with or without his knowledge, as the case may be25(2) without prejudice to the generality of the provisions of sub-section (1), the duties of an employer shall particularly in respect of factory, mines, dock, building and other construction work or plantation include—(a) the provision and maintenance of plant and systems of work in the workplacethat are safe and without risk to health;30(b) the arrangements in the workplace for ensuring safety and absence of risk tohealth in connection with the use, handling, storage and transport of articles and substances;(c) the provision of such information, instruction, training and supervision asare necessary to ensure the health and safety of all employees at work;35(d) the maintenance of all places of work in the workplace in a condition that issafe and without risk to health and the provision and maintenance of such means of access to, and egress from, such places as are safe and without such risk;(e) the provision, maintenance or monitoring of such working environment inthe workplace for the employees that is safe, without risk to health as regards facilities and arrangements for their welfare at work407 (1) the owner and agent of every mine shall jointly and severally be responsible formaking financial and other provisions and for taking such other steps as may be necessary for compliance with the provisions of this code and the regulations, rules, bye-laws and orders made thereunder, relating to mineduties and responsibilities of owner, agent and manager in relation to mine45(2) in the event of any contravention by any person whosoever of any of the provisions of this code or of the rules, regulations, bye-laws or orders made thereunder, relating to mine, except those which specifically require any person to do any act or thing or prohibit any person from doing an act or thing, besides the person who contravenes, then, each of the following persons shall also be deemed to be guilty of such contravention unless he proves that he had used due diligence to secure compliance with the provisions and had taken reasonable means to prevent such contravention, namely:—(a) the official or officials appointed to perform duties of supervision in respect of the provisions contravened;(b) the manager of the mine;5(c) the owner and agent of the mine; (d) the person appointed, if any, to carry out the responsibility under section 2410(3) it shall not be a defence in any proceedings brought against the owner or agent of a mine under this section that the manager and other officials have been appointed in accordance with the provisions of this code or that a person to carry the responsibility under section 24 has been appointed8 (1) every person who designs, manufactures, imports or supplies any article for use in any establishment shall—15duties of manufacturers, designers, importers or suppliers(a) ensure so far as is reasonably practicable, that the article is so designed and constructed in the establishment as to be safe and without risk to the health of the workers when properly used;20(b) carry out or arrange for the carrying out of such tests and examination in the establishment as may be considered necessary for the effective implementation of the provisions of clause (a);(c) take steps as may be necessary to ensure that adequate information will be available—(i) in connection with the use of the article in any establishment; (ii) about the use for which such article is designed and tested; and25(iii) about any conditions necessary to ensure that the article, when put to such use, shall be safe, and without risk to the health of the workers:provided that where an article is designed or manufactured outside india, then it shall be obligatory on the part of the importer to see—(a) that the article conforms to the same standards of such article manufactured in india; or30(b) if the standards adopted in the country outside india for the manufacture of such article is above the standards adopted in india, that the article conforms to such standards in such country;35(c) if there is no standard of such article in india, then, the article conforms to the standard adopted in the country from where it is imported at its national level40(2) the designer, manufacturer, importer or supplier shall also comply with such duties as the central government may, in consultation with the national occupational safety and health advisory board referred to in sub-section (1) of section 16, by regulations specify(3) every person, who undertakes to design or manufacture any article and substance for use in any factory, may carry out or arrange for the carrying out of necessary research with a view to the discovery and, so far as is reasonably, practicable, the elimination or minimisation of any risks to the health or safety of the workers to which the design or manufacture of article and substance may give rise to such risk45(4) nothing contained in sub-sections (1) and (2) shall be construed to require a person to repeat the testing, examination or research which has been carried out otherwise than by him or at his instance in so far as it is reasonable for him to rely on the results thereof for the purposes of the said sub-sections5(5) any duty imposed on any person by sub-sections (1) and (2) shall extend only to things done in the course of business carried on by him and to matters within his control(6) every person,—10(a) who erects or installs any article for use in a factory, shall ensure, so far as practicable, that such article so erected or installed does not make it unsafe or a risk to health when that article is used by the persons in such factory;(b) who manufactures, imports or supplies any substance for use in any factory shall—15(i) ensure, so far as practicable, that such substance when used in the factory does not make it unsafe or a risk to health of persons working in such factory;(ii) carry out or arrange for carrying out of such tests and examination in relation to such substance as may be necessary;20(iii) take such steps as are necessary to secure that the information about the results of tests carried out in connection with the use of the substance as referred to in sub-clause (ii) is available in a factory along with conditions necessary to ensure its safe use and no risks to health;25(c) who undertakes the manufacture of any substance for use in any factory shall carry out or arrange for carrying out of any necessary research with a view to discover and, so far as practicable, to ensure the elimination or minimisation of any risks to health or safety to which the substance may give rise out of such manufacture or research;30(7) for the purposes of this section, an article and substance is not to be regarded as properly used, if they are used without regard to any information or advice relating to their use which has been made available by the person who has designed, manufactured, imported or supplied the article and substanceexplanation—for the purpose of this section—(a) "article" shall include plant and machinery; (b) "substance" means any natural or artificial substance whether in a solid or liquid form or in the form of a gas or vapour; and35(c) "substance for use in any factory" means such substance, whether or notintended for use by persons working in a factory40duties of architect, project engineers and designers9 (1) it shall be the duty of the architect, project engineer or designer responsible for any building or other construction work or the design of any project or part thereof relating to such building or other construction work to ensure that, at the planning stage, due consideration is given to the safety and health aspects of the building workers and employees who are employed in the erection, operation and execution of such projects and structures as the case may be45(2) adequate care shall be taken by the architect, project engineer and other professionals involved in the project referred to in sub-section (1), not to include anything in the design which would involve the use of dangerous structures or other processes or materials, hazardous to health or safety of building workers and employees during the course of erection, operation and execution as the case may be(3) it shall also be the duty of the professionals, involved in designing the buildings structures or other construction projects, to take into account the safety aspects associated with the maintenance and upkeep of the structures and buildings where maintenance and upkeep may involve such hazards as may be notified by the appropriate government5notice of certain accident10 (1) where at any place in an establishment, an accident occurs which causesdeath, or which causes any bodily injury by reason of which the person injured is prevented from working for a period of forty-eight hours or more immediately following the accident or which is of such nature as may be prescribed by the appropriate government, then,—(a) employer or owner or agent or manager referred to in section 67of suchestablishment if it is mine; or10(b) employer or manager in relation to such establishment if it is factory orrelates to dock work; or(c) the employer of a plantation or an establishment relating to building or otherconstruction or any other establishment,15shall send notice thereof to such authorities, in such manner and within such time, as may be prescribed by the appropriate government20(2) where a notice given under sub-section (1) relates to an accident causing death in a plantation or an establishment relating to building or other construction work or any other establishment, the authority to whom the notice is sent shall make an inquiry into the occurrence within two months of the receipt of the notice or if there is no such authority, the chief inspector-cum-facilitator shall cause the inspector-cum-facilitator to make an inquiry within the said period25notice of certain dangerous occurrences11 where in an establishment there is any dangerous occurrence of such nature,(whether causing any bodily injury or disability, or not) the employer shall send notice thereof to such authorities, and in such form and within such time, as may be prescribed by the appropriate governmentnotice of certain diseases3012 (1) where any worker in an establishment contracts any disease specified in thethird schedule, the employer of the establishment shall send notice thereof to such authorities, and in such form and within such time, as may be prescribed by the appropriate government35(2) if any qualified medical practitioner attends on a person, who is or has been employed in an establishment, and who is, or is believed by the qualified medical practitioner, to be suffering from any disease specified in the third schedule, the medical practitioner shall without delay send a report in writing to the office of the chief inspector-cum-facilitator in such form and manner and within such time as may be prescribed by the appropriate government(3) if any qualified medical practitioner fails to comply with the provisions of sub-section (2), he shall be punishable with penalty which may extend to ten thousand rupees4013  every employee at work place shall,—duties of employee(a) take reasonable care for the health and safety of himself and of other personswho may be affected by his acts or omissions at the work place;(b) comply with the safety and health requirements specified in the standards;45(c) co-operate with the employer in meeting the statutory obligations of theemployer under this code;(d) if any situation which is unsafe or unhealthy comes to his attention, as soonas practicable, report such situation to his employer or to the health and safety representative and in case of mine, agentor manager referred to in section 67, safety officers or an official for his workplace or section thereof, as the case may be, whoshall report it to the employer in the manner as may be prescribed by the appropriate government;5(e) not willfully interfere with or misuse or neglect any appliance, convenienceor other thing provided at workplace for the purpose of securing the health, safety and welfare of workers;(f) not do, willfully and without reasonable cause, anything, likely to endangerhimself or others; and(g) perform such other duties as may be prescribed by the appropriategovernment10rights of employee1514  (1) every employee in an establishment shall have the right to obtain from theemployer information relating to employee's health and safety at work and represent to the employer directly or through a member of the safety committee as constituted under section 22, if constituted by the employer for such purpose, regarding inadequate provision for protection of his safety or health in connection with the work activity in the workplace, and if not satisfied, to the inspector-cum-facilitator20(2) where the employee referred to in sub-section (1) in any work place has reasonable apprehension that there is a likelihood of imminent serious personal injury or death or imminent danger to health, he may bring the same to the notice of his employer directly or through a member of the safety committee referred to in sub-section (1) and simultaneously bring the same to the notice of the inspector-cum-facilitator(3) the employer or any employee referred to in sub-section (1) shall take immediate remedial action if he is satisfied about the existence of such imminent danger and send a report forthwith of the action taken to the inspector-cum-facilitator in such manner as may be prescribed by the appropriate government25(4) if the employer referred to in sub-section (3) is not satisfied about the existence ofany imminent danger as apprehended by his employees, he shall, nevertheless, refer the matter forthwith to the inspector-cum-facilitator whose decision on the question of the existence of such imminent danger shall be final3015 no person shall intentionally or recklessly interfere with, damage or misuse anything which is provided in the interest of health, safety or welfare under this codeduty not to interfere with or misuse things chapter iv occupational safety and health3516 (1) the central government shall, by notification, constitute the national occupational safety and health advisory board (hereinafter in this code referred to as the national board) to discharge the functions conferred on it by or under this code and to advise the central government on the matters relating to—national occupational safety and health advisory board(a) standards, rules and regulations to be declared or framed under this code;(b) implementation of the provisions of this code and the standards, rules andregulations relating thereto;40(c) the issues of policy and programme relating to occupational safety andhealth referred to it, from time to time, by the central government; and(d) any other matter in respect of this code referred to it, from time to time, by the central government (2) the national board shall consist of—45(a) secretary, ministry of labour and employment—chairperson ex officio; (b) director general, factory advice service and labour institutes, mumbai member ex-officio;(c) director general, mines safety, dhanbad—member ex officio;(d) chief controller of explosives, nagpur—member ex officio;(e) chairman, central pollution control board, new delhi—member ex officio;5(f) chief labour commissioner (central), new delhi—member ex officio; (g) principal secretaries dealing with labour matters of four states (by rotation as the central government may deem fit)—member ex officio;(h) director general, employee's state insurance corporation, new delhi—member ex officio;10(i) director general, health services, new delhi—member ex officio; (j) five representatives of employers—member ex officio; (k) five representatives of employees—member ex-officio;15(l) a representative of professional body associated with the matter for which standards, rules, policies being framed—member;(m) five eminent persons connected with the field of occupational safety and health, or representatives from reputed research institutions or similar other discipline—member;20(n) special invitees from the state government or the government of union territory for seeking inputs in specific matters or industry or sector which is predominant in that state or union territory—member;(o) joint secretary, ministry of labour and employment-member secretary ex officio25(3) the terms of office of the members referred to in clauses (g), (j), (k), (l) and (m) of sub-section (2) shall be of three years and the procedure for their nomination, and discharge of their functions shall be such as may be prescribed by the central government30(4) the central government may, in consultation with the national board, determine the number, nature and categories of other officers and employees required to assist the national board in the efficient discharge of its functions and terms and conditions of service of such officers and employees of the national board shall be such as may be prescribed by the central government35(5) the central government may constitute as many technical committees or advisory committees consisting of such number of members having such qualifications as may be prescribed by the central government, to assist the national board in discharge of its function specified in sub-section (1)40(6) the national board shall consult the state governments whose principal secretaries are the members of the national board as required under clause (g) of sub-section (2) of section 16 and in case of specific issues relating to plantation, factories and like other issues, the state government concerned may be invited by the national board as special invitee for obtaining their inputs on such issues17 (1)the state government shall constitute a board to be called the state occupational safety and health advisory board (hereinafter referred to as "state advisory board") to advise the state government on such matters arising out of the administration of this code as may be referred to it by the state governmentsafety and health advisory board45(2) the constitution, procedure and other matters relating to state advisory board shall be such as may be prescribed by the state government5(3) the state government may constitute as many technical committees or advisory committees of the state advisory board including site appraisal committees, consisting of such number of members and having such qualifications as may be prescribed, to assist the state government or state advisory board in discharge of their functions relating to the area falling within their respective jurisdictions18 (1) the central government shall declare, by notification, standards on occupational safety and health for work places relating to factory, mine, dock work, beedi and cigar, building and other construction work and other establishmentsoccupational safety and health standards10(2) in particular and without prejudice to the generality of the power to declare standards to be followed under sub-section (1), such standards shall relate to—15(a) physical, chemical, biological and any other hazards to be dealt with for the working life of employee to ensure to the extent feasible on the basis of the best available evidence or functional capacity, that no employee will suffer material impairment of health or functional capacity even if such employee has regular exposure to such hazards;(b) the norms—(i) appraising the hazards to employees and users to whom such hazards are exposed;20(ii) relating to relevant symptoms and appropriate energy treatment and proper conditions and precautions of safe use or exposure;(iii) for monitoring and measuring exposure of employees to hazards;(iv) for medical examination and other tests which shall be made available, by the employer or at his cost, to the employees exposed to hazards; and25(v) for hazard evaluation procedures like safety audit, hazard and operability study, fault free analysis, event free analysis and such other requirements;30(c) medical examination including criteria for detection and reporting of occupational diseases to be extended to the employees even after he ceases to be in employment, if he is suffering from an occupational disease which arises out of or in the course of employment;(d) such aspects of occupational safety and health relating to work places which the central government considers necessary on the report of the authority designated by such government for such purpose;35(e) such safety and health measures as may be required having regard to the specific conditions prevailing at the workplaces relating to mine, factory, building and other construction work, beedi and cigar, dock work or any other establishments notified; and(f) matters specified in the second schedule to this code40(3) notwithstanding anything contained in section 131, the central government may, on the basis of the recommendation of the national board and after notifying its intention so to do for not less than forty-five days', by notification, amend the second schedule(4) the state government may, with the prior approval of the central government, by notification amend the standards made under sub-section (1) and sub-section (2) for the establishment for which it is the appropriate government situated in the stateresearch related activities19 it shall be the duty of such institutions in the field of occupational safety and health as the central or state government may notify to conduct research, experiments and demonstrations relating to occupational safety and health and thereafter submit their recommendations to the central government or the state government, as the case may be:5provided that state government shall consult national board before notifying conduct of research, experiments and demonstration relating to occupational safety and health20 (1) at any time during the normal working hours of an establishment or at any other time as he may deem necessary,—safety and occupational health surveys(a) the chief inspector-cum-facilitator in the case of factory or mine; or10(b) the director general of factory advice service and labour institute in the case of factory; or(c) the director general of mines safety in the case of mine; or (d) the director general of health services in the case of factory or mine; or15(e) such other officer as may be authorised by the appropriate government in the case of any other establishment or class of establishment; after giving notice in writing to the employer, conduct survey of the factory or mine or such other establishment or class of establishments and such employer shall afford all facilities for such survey, including facilities for the examination and testing of plant and machinery and collection of samples and other data relevant to the survey20explanation—for the purposes of this sub-section, the expression "employer"includes manager for the factory or in the case of any other establishment or class of establishments such person who is for the time being responsible for the safety and the occupational health of such other establishment or class of establishments, as the case may be25(2) for the purpose of facilitating surveys under sub-section (1) every worker shall, if so required by the person conducting the survey, present himself to undergo such medical examination as may be considered necessary by such person and furnish all information in his possession which is relevant to the survey30(3) any time spent by a worker for undergoing medical examination or furnishing information under sub-section (2) shall, for the purpose of calculating wages and extra wages for overtime work, be deemed to be working hour for himexplanation—for the purposes of this section, the report submitted to the appropriate government by the person conducting the survey under sub-section (1) shall be deemed to be a report submitted by an inspector-cum-facilitator under this code3521 (1) for the purposes of this code, the central government and the state government shall collect, compile and analyse occupational safety and health statistics in such form and manner as may be prescribedcollection of statistics and portal for inter-state migrant workers40(2) the central government and the state governments shall maintain the data base or record, for inter-state migrant workers, electronically or otherwise in such portal and in such form and manner as may be prescribed by the central government:provided that an inter-state migrant worker may register himself as an inter-state migrant worker on such portal on the basis of self-declaration and aadhaar:provided further that the workers who have migrated from one state to any other state and are self-employed in that other state may also register themselves on that portal45explanation—for the purposes of this sub-section, the expression "aadhaar" shall have the same meaning as assigned to it in clause (a) of section 2 of the aadhaar (targeted delivery of financial and other subsidies, benefits and services) act, 201618 of 2016safety committee and safety officers522 (1) the appropriate government may, by general or special order, require any establishment or class of establishments to constitute in the prescribed manner a safety committee consisting of representatives of employers and workers engaged in such establishment in such manner that the number of representatives of workers on the committee shall not be less than the number of representatives of the employer and the representatives of the workers shall be chosen in such manner and for such purpose as may be prescribed by appropriate government(2) in every establishment which is a—(a) factory wherein five hundred workers or more; or10(b) factory carrying on hazardous process wherein two hundred fifty workers or more; or(c) building or other construction work wherein two hundred fifty workers or more; or(d) mine wherein one hundred workers or more, are ordinarily employed,15the employer shall also appoint such number of safety officers, who shall possess such qualifications and perform such duties, as may be prescribed by appropriate government chapter v health, safety and working conditions2023 (1) the employer shall be responsible to maintain in his establishment such health, safety and working conditions for the employees as may be prescribed by the central governmentresponsibility of employer for maintaining health, safety and working conditions25(2) without prejudice to the generality of the power conferred under sub-section (1), the central government may prescribe for providing all or any of the following matters in the establishment or class of establishments, namely:—(i) cleanliness and hygiene; (ii) ventilation, temperature and humidity;(iii) environment free from dust, noxious gas, fumes and other impurities;30(iv) adequate standard of humidification, artificially increasing the humidity ofthe air, ventilation and cooling of the air in work rooms;(v) potable drinking water; (vi) adequate standards to prevent overcrowding and to provide sufficientspace to employees or other persons, as the case may be, employed therein;(vii) adequate lighting;35(viii) sufficient arrangement for latrine and urinal accommodation to male, femaleand transgender employee separately and maintaining hygiene therein;(ix) effective arrangements for treatment of wastes and effluents; and (x) any other arrangement which the central government considers appropriate chapter vi welfare provisions4024 (1) the employer shall be responsible to provide and maintain in his establishment such welfare facilities for the employees as may be prescribed by the central government, including,—welfare facilities in the establishment, etc(i) adequate and suitable facilities for washing to male and female employees separately;(ii) bathing places and locker rooms for male, female and transgender employees separately;5(iii) place of keeping clothing not worn during working hours and for the drying of wet clothing;(iv) sitting arrangements for all employees obliged to work in a standing position; (v) facilities of canteen in an establishment for employees thereof, wherein one hundred or more workers including contract labourers are ordinarily employed;10(vi) in case of mines, medical examination of the employees employed or to be employed in the mines, before their employment and at specific intervals;(vii) adequate first-aid boxes or cupboards with contents readily accessible during all working hours; and15(viii) any other welfare measures which the central government considers, under the set of circumstances, as required for decent standard of life of the employees (2) without prejudice to the generality of the powers referred to under sub-section(1), the central government may also prescribe for the following matters, namely:—(i) ambulance room in every factory, mine, building and other construction work wherein more than five hundred workers are ordinarily employed;20(ii) medical facilities at the operating centres and halting stations, uniforms, raincoats and other like amenities for protection from rain or cold for motor transport workers;25(iii) adequate, suitable and separate shelters or rest-rooms for male, female and transgender employees and lunch-room in every factory and mine wherein more than fifty workers are ordinarily employed and in motor transport undertaking wherein employee is required to halt at night;(iv) the appointment of welfare officer in every factory, mine or plantation wherein two hundred and fifty or more workers are ordinarily employed and the qualification, conditions of service and duties of such welfare officer;30(v) for providing by the employer temporary living accommodation, free of charges and within the work site or as near to it as may be possible, to all building workers employed by him and for causing removal or demolition of such temporary living accommodation and for returning by the employer the possession of any land obtained by him for such purpose from municipal board or any other local authority;35(vi) for payment by the principal employer the expenses incurred on providing the accommodation to the contractor, where the building and other construction work is done through the contractor;(vii) any other matter which may be prescribed40(3) the central government may make rules to provide for the facility of creche having suitable room or rooms for the use of children under the age of six years of the employees at suitable location and distance either separately or along with common facilities in establishments wherein more than fifty workers are ordinarily employed:45provided that an establishment can avail common crèche facility of the central government, state government, municipality or private entity or provided by non- governmental organisation or by any other organisation or group of establishments may pool their resources for setting up of common crèche in the manner as they may agree for such purpose chapter vii hours of work and annual leave with wages25 (1) no worker shall be required or allowed to work, in any establishment or class of establishment for more than—daily and weekly working hours, leave etc5(a) eight hours in a day; and (b) the period of work in each day under clause (a) shall be so fixed, as not toexceed such hours, with such intervals and spread overs , as may be notified by the appropriate government:provided that subject to clause (a) in the case of mines,—10(i) the persons employed below ground in a mine shall not be allowed to workfor more than such hours as may be notified by the central government in any day;(ii) no work shall be carried on below ground in any mine except by a system ofshifts so arranged that the period of work for each shift is not spread over more than the daily maximum hours as notified under clause (i);15(iii) no person employed in a mine shall be allowed to be present in any part ofa mine below ground except during the periods of work shown in respect of him in the register maintained under clause (a) of section 33:provided further that subject to clause (a) that the hours of work in case of motor transport worker shall include—20(i) the time spent in work done during the running time of the transport vehicle; (ii) the time spent in subsidiary work; and (iii) period of mere attendance at terminals of less than fifteen minutesexplanation—for the purposes of this sub-section—2530(a) "running time" in relation to a working day means the time from the moment a transport vehicle starts functioning at the beginning of the working day until the moment when the transport vehicle ceases to function at the end of the working day, excluding any time during which the running of the transport vehicle is interrupted for a period exceeding such duration as may be prescribed by the central government during which period the persons who drive, or perform any other work in connection with the transport vehicle are free to dispose of their time as they please or are engaged in subsidiary work;(b) "subsidiary work" means the work in connection with a transport vehicle, its passengers or its load which is done outside the running time of the transport vehicle, including in particular—35(i) the work in connection with accounts, paying of cash, signing ofregisters, handover of service sheets, the checking of tickets and other similar work;(ii) taking over and garaging of the transport vehicles;40(iii) travelling from the place where a person signs on to the place wherehe takes over the transport vehicle and from the place where he leaves the transport vehicle to the place where he signs off;(iv) work in connection with the upkeep and repair of the transport vehicle;and(v) the loading and unloading of the transport vehicle;(c) "period of mere attendance" means the period during which a person remains at his post solely in order to reply to possible calls or to resume action at the time fixed in the duty schedule5(2) notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), the hours of work for working journalist shall, subject to a maximum of one hundred and forty-four hours of work during any period of four consecutive weeks and a period of not less than twenty-four consecutive hours of rest during any period of seven consecutive days, be such as may be prescribed by the central government10(3) notwithstanding anything contained in sub-sections (1) and (2), a sales promotion employee or the working journalist,—(i) in addition to such holidays, casual leave or other kinds of leave as may be prescribed by the central government, shall be granted, if requested for—(a) earned leave on full wages for not less than one-eleventh of the period spent on duty;15(b) leave on medical certificate on one-half of the wages for not less than one-eighteenth of the period of service; (ii) may accumulate earned leave upto such maximum limit as may be prescribed by the central government;20(iii) shall be entitled for the limit up to which the earned leave may be either encashed or availed of at a time by him and the reasons for which such limit may be exceeded shall be such as may be prescribed by the central government;(iv) shall,—(a) when he voluntarily relinquishes his post or retires from service; or (b) when his services are terminated for any reason whatsoever (not being termination as punishment),25be entitled to cash compensation, subject to such conditions and restrictions as may be prescribed by the central government (including conditions by way of specifying the maximum period for which such cash compensation shall be payable), in respect of the earned leave earned by him and not availed of;30(v) who dies while in service, his heirs shall be entitled to cash compensation for the earned leave earned by him and not availed of;35(vi) or his heirs shall be paid the cash compensation in respect of any period of earned leave for which he or his heirs, is or are entitled to cash compensation under clause (iv) or clause (v), which shall be an amount equal to the wages due to him for such period61 of 1986(4) notwithstanding anything contained in this section, the working hours of an adolescent worker shall be regulated in accordance with the provisions of the child and adolescent labour (prohibition and regulation) act, 19864026 (1) no worker shall be allowed to work in an establishment for more than six days in any one week:weekly and compensatory holidaysprovided that in any motor transport undertaking, an employer may, in order to prevent any dislocation of a motor transport service, require a worker to work on any day of weekly holiday which is not a holiday so arranged that the worker does not work for more than ten days consecutively without a holiday for a whole day intervening45(2) the appropriate government may, by notification, exempt such workers as it thinks fit from the provisions of sub-section (1), subject to such conditions as may be prescribed5(3) where, as a result of the passing of an order or the making of a rule under the provisions of this code exempting an establishment or the workers therein from the provisions of sub-section (1), a worker is deprived of any of the weekly holidays, the worker shall be allowed, within the month in which the holidays were due or within the two months immediately following that month, compensatory holidays of equal number to the holidays, so deprivedextra wages for overtime1027 there shall be paid wages at the rate of twice the rate of wages in respect of overtime work, where a worker works in an establishment or class of establishment for more than such hours of work in any day or in any week as may be prescribed by the appropriate government and the period of overtime work shall be calculated on a daily basis or weekly basis, whichever is more favourable to such worker:provided that a worker shall be required to work overtime by the employer subject to the consent of such worker for such work:15provided further that the appropriate government may prescribe the total number of hours of overtimenight shifts28 where a worker in an establishment works on a shift which extends beyond midnight,—(a) for the purposes of section 26, a weekly holiday for a whole day shall mean in his case a period of twenty-four consecutive hours beginning when his shift ends;20(b) the following day for him shall be deemed to be the period of twenty-four hours beginning when such shift ends, and the hours he has worked after midnight shall be counted in the previous dayprohibition of overlapping shifts2529 (1) the work shall not be carried on in any establishment by means of a system of shifts so arranged that more than one relay of workers is engaged in work of the same kind at the same time(2) the appropriate government or subject to the approval of the appropriate government, the chief inspector-cum-facilitator, may, by written order and for the reasons specified therein, exempt on such conditions as may be deemed expedient, any establishment or class of establishments or any department or section of an establishment or any category or description of workers therein from the provisions of sub-section (1):30provided that the provisions of this sub-section shall not apply to mines 30 no worker shall be required or allowed to work in a mine or factory if he has already been working in any other such similar establishment within the preceding twelve hours, save in such circumstances as may be prescribed by appropriate governmentrestriction on double employment in factory and mine35notice of periods of work31 (1) there shall be displayed and correctly maintained in every establishment anotice of periods of work, showing clearly for every day the periods during which workers may be required to work in accordance with the provisions of this code40(2) the form of notice required by sub-section (1), the manner of display of such notice and the manner in which such notice shall be sent to the inspector-cum-facilitator shall be such as may be prescribed by appropriate government45(3) any proposed change in the system of work in any establishment which will necessitate a change in the notice referred to in sub-section (1) shall be intimated to the inspector-cum-facilitator before the change is made, and except with the previous sanction of the inspector-cum-facilitator, no such change shall be made until one week has elapsed since that last change32 (1) every worker employed in an establishment shall be entitled for leave in a calendar year with wages subject to the following conditions, namely :—annual leave with wages, etc(i) that he has worked one hundred and eighty days or more in such calendaryear;5(ii) that he shall be entitled for one-day leave for every twenty days of his work,in the case of adolescent worker for fifteen days of his work, and in case of worker employed below ground mine, at the rate of one day for every fifteen days of his work, in such calendar year;10(iii) any period of layoff, maternity leave or annual leave availed by such worker in such calendar year shall be counted for calculating the period of one hundred and eighty days or more under clause (i), but he shall not earn leave for the period so counted;15(iv) any holidays falling between the leave availed by such worker (in a calendar year or prefixed or suffixed holiday) shall be excluded from the period of leave so availed;(v) in case of such worker whose service commences otherwise than on the first day of january shall be entitled to leave with wages at the rate specified in clause (ii), if he has worked for one-fourth of the total number of days in the remainder of the calendar year;2025(vi) in case such worker is discharged or dismissed from service or quits employment or is superannuated or dies while in service, during the course of the calendar year, such worker or his heir or nominee, shall be entitled to wages in lieu of the quantum of leave to which such worker was entitled immediately before his discharge, dismissal, quitting of employment, superannuation or death, calculated as specified in preceding clauses, even if such worker has not worked for the required period under this sub-section making such worker eligible to avail such leave, and such payment shall be made—30(a) where such worker is discharged or dismissed or quits employment before the expiry of the second working day from the date of such discharge, dismissal or quitting; and(b) where such worker is superannuated or dies while in service, before the expiry of two months from the date of such superannuation or death;35(vii) if such worker does not in any one calendar year take the whole of the leave allowed to him under this sub-section and the rules made thereunder, then, any leave not taken by him shall be added to the leave to be allowed to him in the succeeding calendar year so that—(a) the total number of days of leave that may be carried forward to a succeeding year shall not exceed thirty days; and40(b) such worker, who has applied for leave with wages but has not been given such leave in accordance with this sub-section and the rules made thereunder shall be entitled to carry forward the leave refused without any limit; (viii) without prejudice to clause (vi) such worker shall be entitled on his demand for encashment of leave at the end of calendar year;45(ix) suchworker shall be entitled, where his total number of leave exceeds thirty days under sub-clause (a) of clause (vii), to encash such exceeded leave(2) the appropriate government may, by notification, extend the provisions of sub-section (1) to any other establishment except railway establishment(3) the provisions of sub-section (1) shall not operate to the prejudice of any right to which a person employed in a mine may be entitled under any other law or under the terms of any award, agreement or contract of service:5provided that if such award, agreement or contract of service, provides for longerannual leave with wages than that provided in sub-section (1), the quantum of leave, whichthe person employed shall be entitled to, shall be in accordance with such award, agreement or contract of service but leave shall be regulated in accordance with the provisions of subsection (1) with respect of matters not provided for in such award, agreement or contract ofservice:10provided further that where the central government is satisfied that the leave rulesapplicable to persons employed in any mine provide benefits which in its opinion are not less favourable than those provided for in sub-section (1) it may, by order in writing and subject to such conditions as may be specified therein exempt the mine from all or any of the provisions of sub-section (1)15 chapter viii maintenance of registers, records and returns33  an employer of an establishment shall—maintenance of registers, records and filing of returns20(a) maintain register in prescribed form, electronically or otherwise, containing such particulars of workers as may be prescribed by appropriate government including,—(i) work performed by them;(ii) number of hours of work constituting normal working hours in a day; (iii) day of rest allowed in every period of seven days; (iv) wage paid and receipts given therefor;25(v) leave, leave wages, overtime work, attendance and dangerousoccurrences; and(vi) employment of adolescent;(b) display notices at the work place of the workers in such manner and form as may be prescribed by the appropriate government;30(c) issue wage slips to the workers, in electronic forms or otherwise; and(d) file such return electronically or otherwise to the inspector-cum-facilitator in such manner and during such periods as may be prescribed by appropriate government chapter ix 35 inspector-cum-facilitators and other authority34 (1) the appropriate government may, by notification, appoint inspector-cum-facilitators for the purposes of this code who shall exercise the powers conferred on them under this code throughout their respective jurisdiction specified in the notificationappointment of inspectorcum- facilitators40(2) the inspector-cum-facilitators appointed under sub-section (1) shall, apart from other duties to be discharged by them under this code, conduct such inspections as specified in sub-sections (3)(3) the appropriate government may—(i) for the purposes of inspection referred to in sub-section (2), by notification, lay down an inspection scheme which may provide for the generation of web-based inspection and calling of information under this code, electronically and such scheme shall, inter alia, have provisions to cater to special circumstances for assigning inspection and calling for information from establishment or any other person besides web-based inspections; and5(ii) without prejudice to the provisions of sub-section (2), by notification, under the scheme, provide for the randomised selection of establishment and the inspector-cum-facilitator for inspection10(4) without prejudice to the powers of the appropriate government under this section, the inspection scheme referred to in sub-section (3) may be designed taking into account, inter alia, the following factors, namely:—(a) assignment of unique number, to each establishment (which will be same as the registration number allotted to the establishment registered under section 3), unique number to each inspector-cum-facilitator and to each inspection in such manner as may be notified by the appropriate government;15(b) timely uploading of inspection reports in such manner and subject to such conditions as may be notified in the scheme;(c) provisions for special inspections based on such parameters as may be notified by the appropriate government; and20(d) the characteristics of employment, the nature of work, and characteristics of the workplaces based on such parameters as may be notified by the appropriate government25(5) the appropriate government may, by notification, appoint any person or persons possessing the prescribed qualifications and experience to be chief inspector-cum-facilitator for the purposes of such establishments or class of establishments and for such local limits of jurisdiction as may be specified in the notification:provided that a chief inspector-cum-facilitator may be appointed for the purposes of a state or more than one states or for the purposes of the whole of the country30(6) the appropriate government may, by notification, appoint for the purposes of establishments as may be notified by that government, as many additional chief inspectorcum-facilitators, joint chief inspector-cum-facilitators and deputy chief inspector-cum- facilitators or any other officer of any designation as it thinks appropriate, to exercise such powers of the chief inspector-cum-facilitator within his jurisdiction, as may be specified in the notification35(7) every additional chief inspector-cum-facilitator, joint chief inspector-cum-facilitator, deputy chief inspector-cum-facilitator and every other officer appointed under sub-section (6) shall, in addition to the powers of a chief inspector-cum-facilitator specified in the notification by which the officer is appointed, exercise the powers of an inspectorcum-facilitator within such local limits as may be specified in the notification40(8) no person shall be appointed under this section or having been so appointed, shall continue to hold office, who is, or who becomes, directly or indirectly interested in a workplace or work activity or in any process or business carried on in any workplace or in any plant or machinery connected therewith45(9) the appropriate government may also, by notification, appoint such public officers as it thinks fit to be inspector-cum-facilitators in addition to existing inspector-cum- facilitator for exercising the powers and discharging the duties of inspector-cum-facilitator for all or any of the purposes of this code within such local limits as may be specified in such notification5(10) without prejudice to the other functions of the inspector-cum-facilitator under this code, an inspector-cum-facilitator may in respect of any establishment or class of establishments in local area or areas of his jurisdiction where the chief inspector-cum- facilitator with the approval of the appropriate government and subject to such restrictions or conditions as he may think fit to impose, by order in writing authorise the inspector-cum- facilitator to exercise such of the powers of the chief inspector-cum-facilitator as may be specified in such order:10provided that the chief inspector-cum-facilitator, with the approval of the appropriate government, may by order in writing, prohibit the exercise, by any inspector-cum- facilitator or any class of inspector-cum-facilitators specified in such order, of any such power by such inspector-cum-facilitator or class of inspector-cum-facilitators1545 of 1860(11) every chief inspector-cum-facilitator, additional chief inspector-cum-facilitator, joint chief inspector-cum-facilitator, deputy chief inspector-cum-facilitator, inspectorcum-facilitator and every other officer appointed under this section shall be deemed to be a public servant within the meaning of section 21 of the indian penal code, and shall be officially subordinate to such authority as the appropriate government may specify in this behalf35 (1) subject to any rules made in this behalf, an inspector-cum-facilitator may—powers of inspectorcum- facilitators20(i) enter, with such assistance of persons, being persons in the service of the government, or any local or other public authority, or with an expert, as he thinks fit, any place which is used, or which he has reason to believe, is used as a work place;(ii) inspect and examine the establishment, any premises, plant, machinery, article, or any other relevant material;25(iii) inquire into any accident or dangerous occurrence, whether resulting in bodily injury, disability or death or not and take on the spot or otherwise statement of any person which he may consider necessary for such inquiry;30(iv) subject to any rules made by the state government in this behalf, within his jurisdiction, examine the crops grown in any plantation or any worker employed therein or require the production of any register or other document maintained in pursuance of this code, and take on the spot or otherwise statement of any person which he may consider necessary for carrying out the purposes of this code relating to plantation;(v) supply information and sensitise the employers and workers regarding the provisions of this code and compliance thereof;35(vi) require the production of any register or any other document relating to the workplace or work activity;(vii) search or seize, or take copies of, any register, record or other document or any portion thereof, as he may consider necessary in respect of any offence under this code, which he has reason to believe, has been committed;40(viii) direct the concerned occupier or employer that any premises or any part thereof, or anything lying therein, shall be left undisturbed (whether generally or in particular respects) for so long as is necessary for the purpose of any inspection or inquiry;(ix) take measurements, photographs and videographs and make such recordings as he considers necessary for the purpose of any examination or inquiry;45(x) take samples of any articles or substances found in any establishment or premises into which he has power to enter and of the air of the atmosphere in or in the vicinity of any such establishment or premises in such manner as may be prescribed by the appropriate government;5(xi) in case of any article or substance found in any establishment or premises, being an article or substance which appears to him as having caused or is likely to cause danger to the health and safety of the employees, direct it to be dismantled or subject it to any process or test (but not so as to damage or destroy it unless the same is, in the circumstances necessary, for carrying out the purposes of any provision of this code) and take possession of any such article or substance or a part thereof, and detain it for so long as is necessary for such examination;(xii) issue show cause notice relating to safety, health and welfare provisions arising under this code, rules, regulations and bye-laws made thereunder;10(xiii) prosecute, conduct or defend before any court any complaint or other proceeding arising under this code, the rules and regulations made thereunder; and(xiv) exercise such other powers and perform such other duties as may be prescribed by the appropriate government1545 of 1860(2) any person required to produce any document or to give any information required by an inspector-cum-facilitator under sub-section (1) shall be deemed to be legally bound to do so within the meaning of section 175 and section 176 of the indian penal code2 of 1974(3) the provisions of the code of criminal procedure, 1973, shall, so far as may be, apply to such search or seizure under sub-section (1) as they apply to any search or seizure made under the authority of a warrant issued under section 94 of  the said code2036 the district magistrate shall, within the local limits of his jurisdiction, exercise such powers and duties of the inspector-cum-facilitator in respect of mines as may be prescribed by the central governmentpowers and duties of district magistrate third party audit and certification2537 (1) the appropriate government may, by notification, formulate a scheme to empanel experts possessing such qualifications and experience as may be prescribed for the purpose of such start-up establishments or class of establishments, as may be specified in the notification(2) the experts empanelled under sub-section (1), shall,—(a) be assigned the third party audit and certification in a randomised manner, by the appropriate government through a web-based scheme;30(b) carry out the audit and certification in the manner and for the purpose specified in the scheme referred to in sub-section (1);(c) perform such duties as may be specified in such scheme and submit his report to the concerned employer and to the inspector-cum-facilitator 38 (1) without prejudice to the other powers of an inspector-cum-facilitator in this code, an inspector-cum-facilitator,—35(a) shall have the following special powers in respect of a factory, namely:—40special powers of inspectorcum- facilitator in respect of factory, mines, dock work and building and other construction work(a) where it appears to the inspector-cum-facilitator that conditions in a factory or part thereof are such that they may cause serious hazard or imminent danger by way of injury or death to the persons employed therein or to the general public in the vicinity, he may, by order in writing to the occupier of the factory, state the particulars in respect of which he considers the factory or part thereof to be the cause of such serious hazard or imminent danger and prohibit such occupier from employing any person in the factory or any part thereof other than the minimum number of persons necessary to attend to the minimum tasks till the hazard or danger is removed;45(b) any order issued by the inspector-cum-facilitator under sub-clause (a) shall have effect for a period of three days until extended by the chief inspector-cum-facilitator by a subsequent order;(c) any person aggrieved by an order of the inspector-cum-facilitator under sub-clause (a), and the chief inspector-cum-facilitator under sub-clause (b), shall have the right to appeal to the high court;14 of 19475(d) any person whose employment has been affected by an order issued under sub-clause (a), shall, without prejudice to the rights of the parties under the industrial disputes act, 1947, be entitled to wages and other benefits and it shall be the duty of the occupier to provide alternative employment to him wherever possible in such manner as may be prescribed by appropriate government;10(b) shall have the following special powers in respect of mines, namely:—15 20(a) if, in respect of any matter for which no express provision is made by or under this code, it appears to the chief inspector-cum-facilitator or an inspector-cum-facilitator that any mine or part thereof or any matter, thing or practice in or connected with the mine, or with the control, supervision, management or direction thereof, is dangerous to human life or safety or is defective so as to threaten or tend to cause, the bodily injury of any person, he may give notice in writing thereof to the employer of the mine stating therein the particulars in respect of which he considers the mine or part thereof or the matter, thing or practice to be dangerous or defective and require the same to be remedied within such time and in such manner as he may specify in the notice;25(b) where the employer of a mine fails to comply with the terms of a notice given under sub-clause (a) within the period specified therein, the chief inspector-cum-facilitator or the inspector-cum-facilitator may, by order in writing, prohibit the employment in or about the mine or any part thereof of any person whose employment is not in his opinion reasonably necessary for securing compliance with the terms of the notice;30 35(c) without prejudice to the provisions contained in sub-clause (a), the chief inspector-cum-facilitator or the inspector-cum-facilitator may, by order in writing addressed to the employer of a mine, prohibit the extraction or reduction of pillars or blocks of minerals in the mine or part thereof, if, in his opinion, such operation is likely to cause the crushing of pillars or blocks of minerals or the premature collapse of any part of the workings or otherwise endanger the mine or the life or safety of persons employed therein or if, in his opinion, adequate provision against the outbreak of fire or flooding has not been made by providing for the sealing off and isolation of the part of the mine in which such operation is contemplated and for restricting the area that might be affected by fire or flooding;4045(d) if the chief inspector-cum-facilitator or an inspector-cum-facilitator authorised, by general or special order in writing by the chief inspector-cum- facilitator, is of opinion that there is urgent and immediate danger to the life or safety of any person employed in any mine or part thereof, he may, by order in writing containing a statement of the grounds of his opinion, prohibit until he is satisfied that the danger is removed, the employment in or about the mine or any part thereof of any person whose employment is not in his opinion reasonably necessary for the purpose of removing the danger;(e) every person whose employment is prohibited under sub-clause (b) or sub-clause (d) shall be entitled to payment of full wages for the period for which he would have been, but for the prohibition, in employment and the employer shall be liable for payment of such full wages of that person:50provided that the employer may instead of paying such full wages provide such person with an alternative employment at the same wages which such person was receiving in the employment which was prohibited;(f) where a notice has been given under sub-clause (a) or an order is made under sub-clause (b) or sub-clause (c) or sub-clause (d) by an inspector-cum-facilitator, the employer of the mine may, within ten days after the receipt of the notice or order, as the case may be, appeal against the same to the chief inspector-cum-facilitator who may confirm, modify or cancel the notice or order;510(g) the chief inspector-cum-facilitator or the inspector-cum-facilitator sending a notice under sub-clause (a) or making an order under sub-clause (b) or sub-clause (c) or sub-clause (d) and the chief inspector-cum-facilitator making an order (other than an order of cancellation in appeal) under sub-clause (f) shall forthwith report the same to the central government;1520(h) if the employer of the mine objects to a notice sent under sub-clause (a) by the chief inspector-cum-facilitator or the inspector-cum- facilitator or to an order made by the chief inspector-cum-facilitator or the inspector-cum-facilitator under sub-clause (b) or sub-clause (c) or sub-clause (d)or sub-clause (f), as the case may be, he may, within twenty days after the receipt of the notice containing the requisition or of the order or after the date of the decision on appeal, as the case may be, send his objection in writing stating the grounds thereof to the central government which shall, ordinarily within a period of one month from the date of receipt of the objection, decide the matter;25(i) every notice under sub-clause (a), or order under sub-clause (b) or sub-clause (c) or sub-clause (d) or sub-clause (f), to which objection is made under sub-clause (h), shall be complied with, pending the objection with the concerned chief inspector-cum-facilitator or inspector-cum-facilitator of the mine, for the decision of the central government:provided that the central government may, on the application of the employer, suspend the operation of a notice under sub-clause (a), pending its decision on the objection;2 of 197430(j) nothing in this section shall affect the powers of a magistrate under section 144 of the code of criminal procedure, 1973;35(k) where in respect of any matter relating to safety of mine for which express provision is made by or under this code, the employer of a mine fails to comply with such provisions, the chief inspector-cum-facilitator may give notice in writing requiring the same to be complied with within such time as he may specify in the notice or within such extended period of time as he may, from time to time, specify thereafter;40(l) where the employer fails to comply with the terms of a notice given under sub-clause (k) within the period specified in such notice or within the extended period of time specified under that sub-clause, the chief inspectorcum-facilitator may, by order in writing, prohibit the employment, in or about the mine or any part thereof, of any person whose employment is not, in his opinion, reasonably necessary for securing compliance with the terms of the notice;45(m) every person whose employment is prohibited under sub-clause (l), shall be entitled to payment of full wages for the period for which he would have been, but for the prohibition, in employment, and the owner, agent, or manager referred to in section 67 shall be liable for payment of such full wages of that person:50provided that the employer may, instead of paying such full wages, provide such person with an alternative employment at the same wages which such person was receiving in the employment which was prohibited under sub-clause (l);(n) the provisions of sub-clauses (g), (h) and (i) shall apply in relation to a notice issued under sub-clause (k) or an order made under sub-clause (l) as they apply in relation to a notice or an order under sub-clause (b);5(o) the chief inspector-cum-facilitator may, for reasons to be recorded in writing, reverse or modify any order passed by him under this code or under any regulation, rule or bye-law made thereunder in relation to mine;(p) no order prejudicial to the owner, agent or manager of a mine shall be made under this section unless such owner, agent or manager has been given a reasonable opportunity of making representation;10(q) the central government may reverse or modify any order passed by chief inspector-cum-facilitator under this code or under any regulation, rule or bye-laws thereunder in relation to mine; (c) shall have the following special powers, in respect of dock work namely:—15(a) if it appears to an inspector-cum-facilitator that any place where any dock work is being carried on is in such a condition that it is dangerous to life, safety or health, of workers employed in dock work, he may, in writing, serve on the employer, an order prohibiting any dock work, in such place, until measures have been taken to remove the cause of the danger to his satisfaction;20(b) an inspector-cum-facilitator after serving an order under clause (a)shall endorse a copy thereof to the chief inspector-cum-facilitator who may modify or cancel the order without waiting for an appeal;25(c) any person aggrieved by an order under clause (a) or clause (b) may, within fifteen days from the date on which the order is communicated to him, prefer an appeal to the chief inspector-cum-facilitator or where such order is by the chief inspector-cum-facilitator, to the central government and the chief inspector-cum-facilitator or the central government shall, after giving the appellant an opportunity of being heard, dispose of the appeal within sixty days:30provided that the chief inspector-cum-facilitator or the central government may entertain the appeal after the expiry of the said period of fifteen days, if he or it is satisfied that the appellant was prevented by sufficient cause from filing the appeal in time:35provided further that an order under clause (a) or an order modified underclause (b) shall be complied with, pending the decision of the chief inspectorcum-facilitator or the central government(2) without prejudice to the other powers of an inspector-cum-facilitator elsewhere in this code,—4045(a) if it appears to the chief inspector-cum-facilitator or inspector-cum-facilitator that any site or place at which any building or other construction work is being carried on, is in such condition that it is dangerous to life, safety or health of building workers or the general public, he may, in writing serve, on the employer of building workers working at such site or place or on the employer of the establishment in which such site or place is situated or on the person in charge of such site or place, an order prohibiting any building or other construction work at such site or place until measures have been taken to remove the cause of the danger to his satisfaction;(b) an inspector-cum-facilitator serving an order under clause (a) shall endorse a copy of the order to the chief inspector-cum-facilitator;(c) such prohibition order made by the inspector-cum-facilitator shall be complied with by the employer forthwith5(3) any person aggrieved by an order under clause (a) of sub-section (2), may, within fifteen days from the date on which the order is communicated to him, prefer an appeal to the chief inspector-cum-facilitator or where such order is by the chief inspector-cum- facilitator, to the appropriate government and the chief inspector-cum-facilitator or the appropriate government, as the case may be, shall, after giving the appellant an opportunity of being heard, dispose of the appeal within sixty days:provided that the chief inspector-cum-facilitator or the appropriate government may, entertain the appeal after the expiry of the said period of fifteen days if it is satisfied that the appellant was prevented by sufficient cause from filing the appeal in time:10provided further that the order under clause (a) of sub-section (2), shall be complied with, subject to the decision of the chief inspector-cum-facilitator or the appropriate government as the case may be1520secrecy of information by chief inspectorcum- facilitator or inspectorcum- facilitator, etc39 (1) all copies of, and extracts from, registers or other records pertaining to any establishment and all other information relating to any manufacturing or commercial business or any working process acquired by the chief inspector-cum-facilitator or an inspectorcum-facilitator or by any one assisting him, in the course of the inspection or survey of any establishment under this code or acquired by any officer authorised under section 20 in the exercise of his duties thereunder, shall be regarded as confidential and shall not, while in service or after leaving the service, be disclosed to any person or authority unless the chief inspector-cum-facilitator or the inspector-cum-facilitator considers disclosure necessary to ensure the health, safety or welfare of any person employed in establishment(2) nothing in sub-section (1) shall apply to the disclosure of any such information to—| (                                     | a   | ) any court;                                                                   ||---------------------------------------|-----|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------|| 25                                    |     |                                                                                || (                                     | b   | ) any committee or board constituted under this code;                          || (                                     | c   | ) an official superior or the employer of the establishment concerned;         || 8 of 1923                            |     |                                                                                || (                                     | d   | ) a commissioner for employees' compensation appointed under the               || employees' compensation act, 1923;    |     |                                                                                || (                                     | e   | ) the controller, indian bureau of mines; and                                  || 30                                    |     |                                                                                || (                                     | f   | ) any such officer, authority or authorised person as may be specified in this || behalf by the appropriate government |     |                                                                                || 22 of 2005                           |     |                                                                                || 35                                    |     |                                                                                |(3) notwithstanding anything contained in the right to information act, 2005, no chief inspector-cum-facilitator or inspector-cum-facilitator shall disclose the source of any complaint, made to him regarding the contravention of the provisions of this code without the consent of the complainant and shall also not while making an inspection under this code in pursuance of such complaint, disclose to the employer concerned or any of his representative that the inspection is being made in pursuance of such complaint4040 every employer of an establishment shall afford the chief inspector-cum-facilitator and every inspector-cum-facilitator having jurisdiction or every person authorised by chief inspector-cum-facilitator all reasonable facilities for making any entry, inspection, survey, measurement, examination or inquiry under this codefacilities to be afforded to inspectorcum- facilitator45powers of special officer to enter, measure, etc in relation to mine41 any person in the service of the government duly authorised in this behalf by a special order in writing of the chief inspector-cum-facilitator or of an inspector-cum- facilitator may, for the purpose of surveying, leveling or measuring any mine or any output therefrom, after giving not less than three days' notice to the manager of such mine, enter the mine and may survey, level or measure the mine or any part thereof or any output therefrom at any time by day or night:provided that, where in the opinion of the chief inspector-cum-facilitator or of an inspector-cum-facilitator an emergency exists, he may, by order in writing, authorise any such person to enter the mine for any of the aforesaid purposes without giving any such noticemedical officer5| 42                                                                                          ||----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|| prescribed qualification to be medical officers for the purposes of this code in relation to || factory, mines, plantation, motor transport undertakings and in any other establishment as   || may be prescribed:                                                                           |provided that the medical officers so appointed shall before entering into their office shall disclose to the appropriate government their interest in the concerned establishment(2) the medical officer shall perform the following duties, namely:—10(a) the examination and certification of workers in a mine or factory or in suchother establishment engaged in such dangerous occupations or processes as may be prescribed;15(b) the exercise of such medical supervision for any factory, mines, plantation,motor transport undertaking and for such other establishment as may be prescribed by the appropriate government where cases of illness have occurred which it is reasonable to believe are due to the nature of any process carried on or other conditions of work prevailing in such establishments;20(c) the examination and certification of adolescent for the purpose of ascertaininghis fitness for employment in factory, plantation, motor transport undertakings and in any other establishment as may be prescribed by the appropriate government in any work which is likely to cause injury to their health chapter x special provision relating to employment of women25employment of women43 women shall be entitled to be employed in all establishments for all types of workunder this code and they may also be employed, with their consent before 6 am and beyond 7 pm subject to such conditions relating to safety, holidays and working hours or any other condition to be observed by the employer as may be prescribed by the appropriate government30adequate safety of employment of women in dangerous operation44 where the appropriate government considers that the employment of women isdangerous for their health and safety, in an establishment or class of establishments or in any particular hazardous or dangerous processes in such establishment or class of establishments, due to the operation carried out therein, such government may in the prescribed manner, require the employer to provide adequate safeguards prior to the employment of women for such operation35 chapter xi special provisions for contract labour and inter-state migrant worker, etc part i contract labour4045 (1) this part shall apply to—applicability of this part(i) every establishment in which fifty or more contract labour are employed or were employed on any day of the preceding twelve months through contract;(ii) every manpower supply contractor who has employed on any day of the preceding twelve months fifty or more contract labour(2) this part shall not apply to the establishment in which work only of an intermittent or casual nature is performed:5provided that if a question arises as to whether work performed in an establishment is of an intermittent or casual nature, the appropriate government shall decide that question after consultation with the national board or a state advisory board and its decision thereon shall be finalexplanation—for the purpose of this sub-section, work performed in an establishment shall not be deemed to be of an intermittent nature—| (                 | i   | ) if it was performed for more than one hundred and twenty days in the preceding   ||-------------------|-----|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|| twelve months; or |     |                                                                                    || 10                |     |                                                                                    || (                 | ii  | ) if it is of seasonal character and is performed for more than sixty days in a    || year             |     |                                                                                    || appointment       |     |                                                                                    || of designated     |     |                                                                                    || authority        |     |                                                                                    || 15                |     |                                                                                    |46 the appropriate government may, by an order, appoint such persons, being gazetted officers of the government, as it thinks fit to be designated as authority under sub-section (1) of section 119 and specify the limits of their jurisdiction and vest with such powers and duties including dealing with issuance and revocation of licences electronically as may be specified therein47 (1) no contractor to whom this part applies shall—licensing of contractors(a) supply or engage contract labour in any establishment; or (b) undertake or execute the work through contract labour2025except under and in accordance with a licence issued to him by the authority referred to in sub-section (1) of section 119 in accordance with the provisions of that section after satisfying that the contractor fulfills such requisite qualifications or criteria as may be prescribed by the central government and such licence shall, in addition to the requisite particulars and conditions specified in sub-section (3), specify the number of such contract labour who can be supplied or engaged and the amount of security to be deposited by the contractor30(2) where the contractor does not fulfil the requisite qualifications or criteria referred to in sub-section (1), the authority referred to in sub-section (1) of section 119 may issue him a "work specific licence" electronically renewable within such period as may be prescribed by the central government to supply or engage the contract labour, or execute the work through contract labour, only for the concerned work order as may be specified in such licence and subject to such conditions as may be specified in such licence(3) subject to the provisions of this part,—35(a) a licence under sub-section (1) may contain such conditions including, inparticular, conditions as to hours of work, fixation of wages and other essential amenities in respect of contract labour as may be prescribed by the appropriate government;(b) the licence referred to in sub-section (1) or sub-section (2), shall be obtained from, if for such establishment the appropriate government is—40(i) the central government, the authority referred to in sub-section (1) ofsection 119 designated by that government; and(ii) the state government, the authority referred to in sub-section (1) ofsection 119 designated by that government:45provided that where the contractor is desirous of obtaining licence for supplying or engaging contract labour or undertaking or executing the contract works under sub-section (1) or sub- section (2) in more than one states or for the whole of india, then, he may obtain the licence from the authority referred to in sub-section (1) of section 119 designated by the central government for such purpose and the provisions of that section shall apply:5provided further that before issuing such licence the authority referred to in the firstproviso shall consult the concerned state or states authorities designated under sub- section (1) of section 119, electronically before issuing licence for the establishmentsfor which the appropriate government is the state governmentprocedure for issue or renewal of licence1048 (1) subject to the provisions of section 119, every application for issuing a licence under section 119 for the purposes of sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) of section 47 shall be made electronically in such form and manner and shall contain such particulars regarding the number of contract labour, nature of work for which contract labour is to be employed and such other particulars including the information relating to the employment of inter-state migrant workers as may be prescribed by the appropriate government(2) subject to the provisions of section 119, the authority referred to in sub-section (1)thereof shall follow such procedure as may be prescribed by the appropriate government1520(3) subject to the provisions of section 119, the licence issued for the purposes ofsub-section (1) of section 47 shall be valid for a period of five years in respect of the numberof contract labour specified therein and in case the contractor wants to increase the number of the contract labour, he shall apply in the prescribed manner for the amendment to the licence for such purpose to the authority referred to in sub-section (1) of section119 and ifthe licence is so amended , the number of contract labour shall be increased to such extent by depositing such security deposit as specified in the amended licence for the balance period(4) subject to the provisions of section 119, the licence issued for the purposes of sub-section (1) of section 47 shall contain responsibility of the contractor as may be prescribed by the appropriate government2549 the contractor shall not charge directly or indirectly, in whole or in part, any fee or commission from the contract labourno fees or commission or any cost to workers3050 (1) when a contractor receives work order from an establishment either to supply contract labour in the establishment or to execute the contract through contract labour in the establishment he shall, within such time and in such manner as may be prescribed, intimate to the authority referred to in section 119information regarding work order to be given to the appropriate government35(2) where the contractor fails to give intimation under sub-section (1), the designated authority may, after giving the holder of the licence an opportunity of showing cause, suspend or cancel the licence in such manner as may be prescribed by the appropriate government51 (1) if the authority referred to in sub-section (1) of section 119 is satisfied, either on a reference made to him in this behalf or otherwise, that—revocation, suspension and amendment of licence(a) a licence granted for the purposes of this part has been obtained bymisrepresentation or suppression of any material fact, or40(b) the holder of a licence has, failed to comply with the conditions subject towhich the licence has been granted or has contravened any of the provisions of this part or the rules made thereunder, then,45without prejudice to any other penalty to which the contractor may be liable under this code, the authority referred to in sub-section (1) of section 119 may, after giving the contractor an opportunity of showing cause, revoke or suspend the licence in accordance with the procedure as may be prescribed by the central government(2) subject to any rules that may be made in this behalf, the authority referred to in sub-section (1) of section 119 may amend a licence granted for the purposes of this partappeal552 (1) any person aggrieved by an order made under section 47, section 48 orsection 51 may, within thirty days from the date on which the order is communicated to him, prefer an appeal to an appellate authority prescribed by the appropriate government under sub-section (6) of section 119:provided that the appellate authority may entertain the appeal after the expiry of the said period of thirty days, if he is satisfied that the appellant was prevented by sufficient cause from filing the appeal in time10(2) on receipt of an appeal under sub-section (1), the appellate authority shall, aftergiving the appellant an opportunity of being heard, dispose of the appeal within thirty days from the date on which the appeal is preferred53 welfare facilities specified under section 23 and section 24 shall be provided bythe principal employer of the establishment to the contract labour who are employed in such establishment15liability of principal employer for welfare facilities54 where any principal employer of an establishment is employing contract labour through a contractor who is required to obtain a licence under this part, but he has not obtained such licence, then, such employment shall be deemed to be in contravention of the provision of this codeeffect of employing contract labour from a non-licenced contractor20responsibility for payment of wages55  (1) a contractor shall be responsible for payment of wages to each contractlabour employed by him and such wages shall be paid before the expiry of such period as may be prescribed by the appropriate government(2) every contractor shall, make the disbursement of wages referred to in sub-section (1)through bank transfer or electronic mode and inform the principal employer electronically the amount so paid by such mode:25provided where it is not practicable to disburse payment in the mode specified in this section, then, the payment shall be made in such manner as may be prescribed by the appropriate government30(3) in case the contractor fails to make payment of wages referred to in sub-section (1)within the prescribed period or makes short payment, then, the principal employer shall be liable to make payment of the wages in full or the unpaid balance due, as the case may be, to the concerned contract labour employed by the contractor and recover the amount so paid from the contractor either by deduction from any amount payable to the contractor under any contract or as a debt payable by the contractor35(4) the appropriate government, in the event the contractor does not pay the wagesto the contract labour employed by him, shall pass the orders of making payment of such wages from the amount deposited by such contractor as security deposit under the licence issued by the licensing officer to the contractor, in such manner as may be prescribed by such government40experience certificate56 every concerned contractor shall issue, on demand, experience certificate, in suchform as may be prescribed by the appropriate government, to the contract labour giving details of the work performed by such contract labour57 (1) notwithstanding anything contained in this part, employment of contractlabour in core activities of any establishment is prohibited:prohibition of employment of contract labour45provided that the principal employer may engage contract labour through a contractorto any core activity, if—(a) the normal functioning of the establishment is such that the activity is ordinarily done through contractor; or(b) the activities are such that they do not require full time workers for the major portion of the working hours in a day or for longer periods, as the case may be;5(c) any sudden increase of volume of work in the core activity which needs tobe accomplished in a specified time(2) (a) the appropriate government may, by notification, appoint a designated authority to advise that government on the question whether any activity of an establishment is a core activity or otherwise10(b) if a question arises as to whether any activity of an establishment is a coreactivity or otherwise, the aggrieved party may make an application in such form and manner as may be prescribed, to the appropriate government for decision15(c) the appropriate government may refer any such question suo motu or referthe application to the designated authority, which on the basis of relevant material in its possession, or after making such an enquiry as it deems fit, shall report to the appropriate government, within such period and thereafter the appropriate government shall decide the question within such period as may be prescribedpower to exempt in special cases2058 the appropriate government may, in the case of an emergency, direct, bynotification, that subject to such conditions and restrictions, if any, and for such period, as may be specified in the notification, all or any of the provisions of this code or the rules made thereunder shall not apply to any establishment or class of establishments or any class of contractors part ii inter-state migrant workers25applicability of part ii59 this part shall apply to every establishment in which ten or more inter-statemigrant workers are employed or were employed on any day of the preceding twelve months60 it shall be the duty of every contractor or the employer, of an establishmentemploying inter-state migrant workers in connection with the work of that establishment—facilities to inter-state migrant workers30(i) to ensure suitable conditions of work to such worker having regard to thefact that he is required to work in a state different from his own state;(ii) in case of fatal accident or serious bodily injury to any such worker, toreport to the specified authorities of both the states and also the next of kin of the worker;34 of 19483519 of 1952(iii) to extend all benefits to such worker which are available to a worker of that establishment including benefits under the employees' state insurance act, 1948 or the employees' provident funds and miscellaneous provisions act, 1952 or any other law for the time being in force and the facility of medical check-up as available to a worker under clause (c) of sub-section (1) of section 6journey allowance4061 the employer shall pay, to every inter-state migrant worker employed in hisestablishment, in a year a lump sum amount of fare for to and fro journey to his native place from the place of his employment, in the manner taking into account the minimum service for entitlement, periodicity and class of travel and such other matters as may be prescribed by the appropriate government62 the appropriate government shall make schemes to provide—45benefits of public distribution system, etc(a) option to an inter-state migrant worker for availing benefits of publicdistribution system either in his native state or the destination state where he is employed; and| (                                                                                           | b                                                                                  ||---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|| building or other construction work out of the building and other construction cess         |                                                                                    || fund in the destination state where such inter-state migrant worker is employed            |                                                                                    || toll free                                                                                   |                                                                                    || helpline                                                                                   |                                                                                    || 63                                                                                         | the appropriate government may provide facility of toll free helpline to the       || inter-state migrant workers in such manner as may be prescribed by that government         |                                                                                    || 5                                                                                           |                                                                                    || 64                                                                                         | the appropriate government may provide for study of inter-state migrant workers    || in such manner as may be prescribed by that government                                     |                                    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                                        |                                                                                    || 65                                                                                         | no suit or other proceeding shall lie in any court or before any authority for the || recovery of debt or any part thereof relating to an inter-state migrant worker after the    |                                                                                    || completion of his employment where it remains unsettled obligation to the contractor or the |                                                                                    || principal employer and such debt or part thereof shall, on the completion of the period of  |                                                                                    || employment of such worker, be deemed to have been extinguished                             |                                                                                    | part iii audio-visual workers1566 (1) no person shall be employed as an audio-visual worker in or in connection with production of any audio-visual programme unless,—(a) an agreement in writing is entered into—prohibition of employment of audio-visual worker without agreement(i) with such person by the producer of such audio-visual programme; or (ii) with such person by the producer of such audio-visual programme withthe contractor, where such person is employed through such contractor; or20(iii) with such person by the contractor or other person through whom such person is employed; and (b) such agreement is registered with the competent authority, to be notified by the appropriate government, by the producer of such audio-visual programme (2) every agreement, referred to in sub-section (1) shall,—25(a) be in the prescribed form;(b) specify the name and such other particulars as may be prescribed bythe appropriate government with respect to, such person to be employed under the agreement as audio-visual worker;30(c) include, where such audio-visual worker is employed through acontractor, a specific condition to the effect that in the event of the contractor failing to discharge his obligations under the agreement to the audio-visual worker with respect to payment of wages or any other matter, the producer of the audio-visual programme shall also be liable to discharge such obligations and shall be entitled to be reimbursed with respect thereto by the contractor35(3) a copy of the agreement referred to in sub-section (1) with respect to the employment of the audio-visual worker shall, if such audio-visual worker is covered under the provision of an enactment for the time being in force for providing the benefit of provident fund to him, also be forwarded by the producer of the audio-visual programme to such authority as may be prescribed by the appropriate government40(4) notwithstanding anything contained in chapters v, vi and vii, the agreement referred to in sub-section (1) shall include,—(i) nature of assignment;19 of 1952(ii) wages and other benefits (including provident fund, if covered under theemployees provident fund and miscellaneous provisions act, 1952 );(iii) health and working conditions; (iv) safety;5(v) hours of work; (vi) welfare facilities; and (vii) dispute resolution process or mechanism, the constitution and other detailsof which shall be prescribed by the appropriate government:1014 of 1947provided that in case of failure of the resolution of the dispute in such disputeresolution process or mechanism, either party in the dispute may invoke the jurisdiction of the industrial tribunal established by the appropriate government under section 7a of the industrial disputes act, 1947 and for such purpose such dispute shall be deemed to be industrial dispute within the meaning of that act and it shall be the responsibility of the producer of the audio-visual programme to provide the facilities specified in the agreement to the audio-visual worker and the payment of wages shall be through electronic mode15 part iv minesmanagers2067 (1) save as may be otherwise prescribed, every mine shall be under a sole manager who shall have such qualifications as may be prescribed by the central government and the owner or agent of every mine shall appoint a person having such qualifications to be the manager:provided that the owner or agent may appoint himself as manager if he possesses the prescribed qualifications25(2) subject to any instructions given to him by or on behalf of the owner or agent of the mine, the manager shall be responsible for the overall management, control, supervision and direction of the mine and all such instructions when given by the owner or agent shall be confirmed in writing forthwith30(3) except in case of an emergency, the owner or agent of a mine or anyone on his behalf shall not give, otherwise than through the manager, instructions affecting the fulfilment of his statutory duties, to a person, employed in a mine, who is responsible to the manager68  (1) the provisions of this code, except those contained in sections 35, 38, 40, 41and 44, shall not apply to—code not to apply in certain cases35(a) any mine or part thereof in which excavation is being made for prospectingpurposes only and not for the purpose of obtaining minerals for use or sale subject to such conditions relating to number of employees, depth of excavation and other matters as may be prescribed by the central government;40(b) any mine engaged in the extraction of kankar, murrum, laterite, boulder,gravel, shingle, ordinary sand (excluding mouldings and glass sand and other mineral sands), ordinary clay (excluding kaolin, china clay, white clay or fire clay), building stone, slate, road metal, earth, fullers earth (marl, chalk) and lime stone subject to such conditions relating to workings, open cast workings and explosives as may be prescribed by the central government5(3) without prejudice to the provisions contained in sub-section (2), if at any time any of the conditions specified in clause (a) or clause (b) of sub-section (1) is not fulfilled in relation to any mine referred to in that sub-section, the provisions of this code not set out in sub-section (1), shall become immediately applicable, and it shall be the duty of the employer of the mine to inform about such non-fulfilment to such authority in such manner and within such time as may be prescribed by the central governmentexemption from provision regarding employment101569  (1) in case of an emergency involving serious risk to the safety of the mine or of persons employed therein, or in case of an accident, whether actual or apprehended, or in case of any act of god or in case of any urgent work to be done to machinery, plant or equipment of the mine as a result of breakdown of such machinery plant or equipment, the manager may, subject to the provision of clause (b) of sub-section (1) of section 38 and in accordance with the provisions of section 25 relating to exemption from hours of work above ground, hours of work below ground and notification regarding hours of work and weekly day of rest relating to mines under section 26, permit persons to be employed in contravention of sections 25 and 30 and sub-section (1) of section 31 on such work as may be necessary to protect the safety of the mine or of the persons employed therein:20provided that in case of any urgent work to be done to machinery, plant or equipment under this section, the manager may take the action permitted by this section, although the production of mineral would thereby be incidentally affected, but any action so taken shall not exceed the limits necessary for the purpose of avoiding serious interference with the ordinary working of the mine(2) every case in which action has been taken by the manager under sub-section (1), shall be recorded together with the circumstances relating thereto and a report thereof shall also be made to the chief inspector-cum-facilitator or the inspector-cum-facilitator2570 (1) no person below eighteen years of age shall be allowed to work in any mine orpart thereofemployment of persons below eighteen years of age(2) notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), apprentices and other trainees, not below sixteen years of age, may be allowed to work, under proper supervision, in a mine or part thereof by the manager as referred to in section 67:30provided that in the case of trainees, other than apprentices, prior approval of thechief inspector-cum-facilitator or an inspector-cum-facilitator shall be obtained before they are allowed to work35(3) the central government may prescribe the provisions for medical examination of apprentice, other trainee and employee in the mine to ensure their fitness to work and to prevent the persons below sixteen years of age to work as apprentice or trainee and those who are not adults to work as such employee52 of 1961explanation—in this section, "apprentice" means an apprentice as defined in clause(a) of section 2 of the apprentices act, 196140exemption to certain persons71 the central government may make rules to provide for exemption to certain persons or category of persons employed in mines from the provisions of sub-section (1) of section 25, sub-section (1) of section 26, section 30 and sub-section (1) of section 3172 the central government may prescribe vocational training and rescue and recovery services for persons employed in a mineestablishment, maintenance of rescue services and vocational training5decision of question whether a mine is covered under this code73 if any question arises as to whether any excavation or working or premises in or adjacent to and belonging to a mine, on which any process ancillary to the getting, dressing or preparation for sale of minerals or of coke is being carried on in a mine within the meaning of this code, the central government may decide the question, and a certificate signed by a secretary to the government of india in the ministry of labour and employment shall be conclusive proof thereof part v beedi and cigar workers10licence to industrial premises and person74 (1) save as otherwise provided in this part, no employer shall use or allow to use any place or premises as an industrial premises unless he holds a valid licence issued under section 119 for the purposes of this part and no such premises shall be used except in accordance with the terms and conditions of such licence15(2) subject to the provision of section 119, any person who intends to use or allows to use any place or premises specified in sub-section (1) shall make an application to the authority referred to in sub-section (1) of section 119, in such form and on payment of such fees as may be prescribed by the state government, for a licence to use, or allow to use, such premises as an industrial premises20(3) subject to the provisions of section 119, the application shall specify the maximum number of employees proposed to be employed at any time of the day in the place or premises and shall be accompanied by a plan of the place or premises prepared in such manner as may be prescribed by the state government(4) subject to the provisions of section 119, the authority referred to in sub-section (1)thereof shall, in deciding whether to grant or refuse to grant a licence, have regard to the following matters, namely:—25(a) the suitability of the place or premises which is proposed to be used for themanufacture of beedi or cigar or both;(b) previous experience of the applicant or he has employed experienced personor has entered into agreement with the experienced person for employment for the period of licence;30(c) the financial resources of the applicant including his financial capacity tomeet the demands arising out of the provisions of the laws for the time being in force relating to welfare of labour;(d) whether the application is made bona fide on behalf of the applicant himselfor in benami of any other person;35(e) welfare of the labour in the locality, the interest of the public generally andsuch other matters as may be prescribed by the state government (5) subject to the provision of section of 119, a licence granted under the said sectionfor the purposes of this section shall be valid for five years and may be renewed thereafter40(6) subject to the provision of section of 119, an application for the renewal of alicence for the purposes of this part shall be made at least thirty days before the expiry of the period thereof, on payment of such fees as may be prescribed by the state government, and where such an application has been made, the licence shall be deemed to continue, notwithstanding the expiry of the period thereof, until the renewal of the licence, or, as the case may be, the rejection of the application for the renewal thereof:45provided that the authority referred to in sub-section (1) of section 119 shall not grantor renew a licence unless it is satisfied that the provisions of this part and the rules made thereunder have been complied with:provided further that the authority referred to in sub-section (1) of section 119 shall renew or refuse to renew the licence within such period as my be prescribed by the state government and in deciding whether to renew a licence or to refuse a renewal thereof shall have regard to the matters specified in sub-section (4)5(7) subject to the provisions of section 119, the authority referred to in sub-section (1)thereof may, after giving the holder of a licence an opportunity of being heard, cancel or suspend any licence granted or renewed under section 119 for the purposes of this part, if it appears to it that such licence has been obtained by misrepresentation or fraud or that the licence has contravened or failed to comply with any of the provisions of this part or the rules made thereunder or any of the terms or conditions of the licence10(8) the state government may issue in writing to an authority referred to in sub-section (1) of section 119 such directions of a general character as that government may consider necessary in respect of any matter relating to the grant or renewal of licence under section 119 relating to this section15(9) subject to section 119 and the foregoing provisions of this section, the authority referred to in sub-section (1) of section 119 may grant or renew licence relating to this part on such terms and conditions as it may determine and where such authority refuses to grant or renew any licence, it shall do so by an order communicated to the applicant, giving the reasons in writing for such refusalappeals2075 any person aggrieved by the decision of the authority referred to in sub-section (1)of section 119 refusing to grant or renew a licence, or cancelling or suspending a licence, relating to this part may, within such time and on payment of such fees as may be prescribed, appeal to the appellate authority referred to in sub-section (6) of section 119, and such authority may by order confirm, modify or reverse any order refusing to grant or renew a licence, or cancelling or suspending a licence, relating to this part2576 (1) the state government may permit the wetting or cutting of beedi or tobacco leaves by employees outside the industrial premises on an application made to it by the employer on behalf of such employees, subject to such conditions as may be prescribedpermission to work by employees outside industrial premises(2) the employer shall maintain the record of the work permitted under sub-section (1),to be carried on outside the industrial premises, in such form as may be prescribed30(3) save as otherwise provided in this section, no employer shall require or allow any manufacturing process connected with the making of beedi or cigar or both to be carried on outside the industrial premises:35provided that nothing in this sub-section shall apply to any worker who is given rawmaterial by an employer or a contractor to make beedi or cigar or both at home77 nothing contained in this part shall apply to the owner or occupier of a private dwelling house, not being an employee of an employer to whom this part applies, who carries on any manufacturing process in such private dwelling house with the assistance of the members of his family living with him in such dwelling house and dependent on himpart not to apply to selfemployed persons in private dwelling housesexplanation—for the purposes of this section,—4061 of 1986(i) "family" does not include child, as defined in the child and adolescent(prohibition and regulation) act, 1986, for this section(ii) "private dwelling house" means a house in which persons engaged in the manufacture of beedi or cigar or both reside part vi building or other construction workers578 no person, about whom the employer knows or has reasons to believe that he isa deaf or he has a defective vision or he has a tendency to giddiness, shall be required or allowed to work in any such operation of building or other construction work which is likely to involve a risk of any accident either to the building worker himself or to any other person part vii factoriesprohibition of employment of certain persons in certain building or other construction work79 (1) the appropriate government may make rules in respect of factory or class ordescription of factories for—10approval and licensing of factories(a) the submission of plans including specifications, nature and certificationthereof;(b) the previous permission for the site on which the factory is to be situatedand for the construction or extension thereof; and15(c) subject to the provision of sub-section 119, licensing and renewal thereofincluding fees to be payable for such, licensing and renewal,if required, as the case may be20(2) if on an application for permission referred to in clause (b) of sub-section (1)accompanied by the plans and specifications required by the rules made under clause (a) of that sub-section, sent to the state government or chief inspector-cum-facilitator in the electronic mode, no order is communicated to the applicant within such period not exceeding thirty days, the permission applied for in the said application shall be deemed to have been granted25(3) where a state government or a chief inspector-cum-facilitator refuses to grantpermission to the site, construction or extension of a factory and licensing of a factory, the applicant may within thirty days of the date of such refusal appeal to the central government if the decision appealed from was of the state government and to the state government in any other case30explanation—a factory shall not be deemed to be extended within the meaning ofthis section by reason only of the replacement of any plant or machinery or within such limits as may be prescribed, of the addition of any plant or machinery if such replacement or addition does not reduce the minimum clear space required for safe working around the plant or machinery or adversely affect the environmental conditions from the evolution or emission of steam, heat or dust or fumes injurious to health35liability of owner of premises in certain circumstances4080 where any premises or separate buildings are leased to different occupiers foruse as separate factories, the owner of the premises and occupiers of the factories utilising such common facilities which include safety and fire prevention and protection, access, hygiene, occupational health, ventilation, temperature, emergency preparedness and response, canteens, shelter, rest rooms and crèches shall jointly and severally be responsible for provision and maintenance of such common facilities and services as may be prescribed by the appropriate governmentpower to apply code to certain premises81 (1) the appropriate government may, by notification, declare that all or any of the provisions of this part shall apply to any place wherein a manufacturing process is carried on with or without the aid of power or is ordinarily carried on irrespective of the number of workers working in the factory45(2) after a place is so declared, it shall be deemed to be a factory for the purposes of this code, and the owner shall be deemed to be the occupier, and any person working therein, a workerexplanation—for the purposes of this section, "owner" shall include a lessee or mortgagee with possession of the premisesdangerous operations582 the appropriate government may by rules make the provisions relating to anyfactory or class or description of factories in which manufacturing process or operation is carried on which exposes any of the persons employed in it to a serious risk of bodily injury, poisoning or disease, for—(a) specifying the manufacturing process or operation and declaring it to bedangerous;(b) prohibiting or restricting the employment of pregnant women in themanufacturing process or operation;10(c) the periodical medical examination before, or at any time during theemployment to ascertain the fitness of a worker or employee for such employment on the cost of the occupier; and(d) welfare amenities, sanitary facilities, protective equipment and clothing, andany other requirement necessary for dangerous operations15constitution of site appraisal committee83 (1) the appropriate government may, constitute one or more site appraisalcommittees consisting of a chairman and other members, for such purpose as may be prescribed including to consider and to give recommendations on an application for grant of permission for the initial location of a factory involving a hazardous process or for the expansion of such factory20(2) the site appraisal committee referred to in sub-section (1) shall make its recommendation within a period of thirty days of the receipt of the application for any of the purpose referred to in the said sub-section in such form, as may be prescribed25compulsory disclosure of information by occupier84 (1) the occupier of every factory involving a hazardous process shall disclose inthe manner prescribed by the state government all information regarding dangers, including health hazards and the measures to overcome such hazards arising from the exposure to or handling of the materials or substances in the manufacture, transportation, storage and other processes, to the workers employed in the factory, the chief inspector-cum-facilitator or inspector-cum-facilitator, the local authority within whose jurisdiction the factory is situate and the general public in the vicinity30 35(2) the occupier shall, at the time of registering the factory involving a hazardous process, lay down a detailed policy with respect to the health and safety of the workers employed therein and intimate such policy to the chief inspector-cum-facilitator or inspector-cum-facilitator and the local authority and, thereafter, at such intervals as may be prescribed by the state government, inform the chief inspector- cum- facilitator or inspector-cum-facilitator and the local authority of any change made in the said policy(3) the information furnished under sub-section (1) shall include accurate information as to the quantity, specifications and other characteristics of wastes and the manner of their disposal40(4) every occupier shall, with the approval of the chief inspector-cum-facilitator, draw up an on-site emergency plan and detailed disaster control measures for his factory and make known to the workers employed therein and to the general public living in the vicinity of the factory the safety measures required to be taken in the event of an accident taking place45(5) every occupier of a factory shall, if such factory proposes to engage in a hazardous process at any time after the commencement of this code, within a period of thirty days before the commencement of such process, inform the chief inspector-cum-facilitator about the nature and details of the process in such form and in such manner as may be prescribed by the state government(6) where any occupier of a factory contravenes the provisions of sub-section (5), the licence issued under section 79 to such factory shall, notwithstanding any penalty to which the occupier of factory shall be subjected to under the provisions of this code, be liable for cancellation5(7) the occupier of a factory involving a hazardous process shall, with the previousapproval of the chief inspector-cum-facilitator, lay down measures for the handling, usage, transportation and storage of hazardous substances inside the factory premises and the disposal of such substances outside the factory premises and publicise them in the manner prescribed by the state government among the workers and the general public living in the vicinity1085 every occupier of a factory involving any hazardous process shall—15specific responsibility of the occupier in relation to hazardous processes(a) maintain accurate and up-to-date health records or, as the case may be, medical records, of the workers in the factory who are exposed to any chemical, toxic or any other harmful substances which are manufactured, stored, handled or transported and such records shall be accessible to the workers subject to such conditions as may be prescribed by the state government;(b) appoint persons who possess prescribed qualifications and experience in handling hazardous substances and are competent to supervise such handling within the factory and to provide at the working place all the necessary facilities for protecting the workers in the manner prescribed by the state government:20provided that where any question arises as to the qualifications and experience of a person so appointed, the decision of the chief inspector-cum-facilitator shall be final;(c) provide for medical examination of every worker—25(i) before such worker is assigned to a job involving the handling of, or working with, a hazardous substance; and(ii) while continuing in such job, and after he has ceased to work in such job, at intervals not exceeding twelve months, in such manner as may be prescribed by the state government30national board to inquire into certain situations3586 (1) the central government may, in the event of the occurrence of an extraordinary situation involving a factory engaged in a hazardous process, direct the national board to inquire into the standards of health and safety observed in the factory with a view to finding out the causes of any failure or neglect in the adoption of any measures or standards prescribed by the state government for the health and safety of the workers employed in the factory or the general public affected, or likely to be affected due to such failure or neglect and for the prevention of recurrence of such extraordinary situations in future in such factory or elsewhere(2) the recommendations of the national board shall be advisory in the natureemergency4087  (1) where the central government is satisfied that no standards of safety have been prescribed in respect of a hazardous process or class of hazardous processes, or where the standards so prescribed are inadequate, it may direct the directorate general occupational safety and health formerly known as directorate general of factory advice service and labour institutes or any institution authorised in matters relating to standards of safety in hazardous processes, to lay down emergency standards for enforcement of suitable standards in respect of such hazardous processes45(2) the emergency standards laid down under sub-section (1) shall, until they areincorporated in the rules made under this code, be enforceable and have the same effect as if they had been incorporated in the rules made under this code88 the maximum permissible limits of exposure of chemical and toxic substances in manufacturing process in any factory shall be of the value as may be prescribed by the state governmentpermissible limits of exposure of chemicals and toxic substances5right of workers to warn about imminent danger89 (1) where the workers employed in any factory engaged in a hazardous process have reasonable apprehension that there is a likelihood of imminent danger to their lives or health due to any accident, they may, bring the same to the notice of the occupier, agent, manager or any other person who is in-charge of the factory or the process concerned directly or through their representatives in the safety committee and simultaneously bring the same to the notice of the inspector-cum-facilitator10(2) it shall be the duty of such occupier, agent, manager or the person in-charge of the factory or process to take immediate remedial action if he is satisfied about the existence of such imminent danger and send a report forthwith of the action taken to the inspector-cum- facilitator15(3) if the occupier, agent, manager or the person in-charge referred to in sub-section (2)is not satisfied about the existence of any imminent danger as apprehended by the workers, he shall, nevertheless, refer the matter forthwith to the inspector-cum-facilitator whose decision on the question of the existence of such imminent danger shall be final2090 the appropriate government may prescribe provisions providing the manner in which and the appropriate authority to whom the manager or occupier of the factory may make appeal against the order of the inspector-cum-facilitator and the procedure for disposing of such appealsappeal against the order of inspectorcum- facilitator in case of factory91  (1) the appropriate government may make rules,—power to make rules to exempt25(a) specifying the persons who hold positions of supervision or management or are employed in a confidential position in a factory or empowering the chief inspector-cum-facilitator to declare any person, other than a person so specified, as a person holding position of supervision or management or employed in a confidential position in a factory if, in the opinion of the chief inspector-cum-facilitator, such person holds such position or is so employed, and the provisions of this code, shall not apply to any person so defined or declared30(b) in respect of any worker or class of workers in any establishment or class of establishment, for providing the exemption, extent of exemption and conditions subject to which such exemption may be given (2) the appropriate government or the chief inspector-cum-facilitator may, by order in writing, exempt subject to such conditions as it may deem expedient, any or all of the adult workers in any establishment or class of establishments35 part viii plantation92 (1) without prejudice to the generality of sections 23 and 24, the state government may prescribe requiring every employer to make provisions in his plantation for—facilities for the workers in plantation40(a) necessary housing accommodation including drinking water, kitchen and toilet to every worker employed in the plantation (including his family);(b) crèches facilities where in the plantation fifty or more workers (including workers employed by any contractor) are employed or were employed on any day of the preceding twelve months:provided that,—5(i) an establishment may avail common crèche facility of the centralgovernment, state government, municipality or private entity or provided by non-governmental organisation or by any other organisation; or(ii) a group of establishments may agree to pool their resources for settingup of common crèche;10(c) educational facilities for the children of the workers employed in the plantationwhere the children between the ages of six to twelve of the workers exceed twenty-five in number;34 of 1948(d) health facilities to every worker employed in the plantation (including hisfamily) or provide coverage under the employees state insurance act, 1948; and15(e) recreational facilities for the workers employed in the plantation(2) an employer of a plantation shall be responsible to provide and maintain welfare facilities for which the workers in the plantation are entitled under this code either from his own resources or through the schemes of the central government or state government, municipality or panchayat for the locality in which the plantation is situatedexplanation—for the purposes of this sub-section—20(i) the expression "municipality" has the same meaning as assigned to it in clause (e) of article 243 of the constitution; and(ii) the expression "panchayat" has the same meaning as assigned to it in clause (d) of article 243 of the constitutionsafety2593 (1) in every plantation, arrangement shall be made by the employer to provide forthe safety of a worker in connection with the use, handling, storage and transport of insecticides, pesticides and chemicals and toxic substances(2) the state government may prescribe for special safeguards for employment of women or adolescents in using or handling hazardous chemicals30(3) the employer of a plantation shall appoint persons possessing the prescribedqualifications to supervise the use, handling, storage and transportation of insecticides, chemicals and toxic substances in his plantation35(4) every employer of a plantation shall ensure that every worker in plantationemployed for handling, mixing, blending and applying insecticides, chemicals and toxic substances, is trained about the hazards involved in different operations in which he is engaged, the various safety measures and safe work practices to be adopted in emergencies arising from spillage of such insecticides, chemicals and toxic substances and such other matters as may be prescribed by the state government40(5) every worker in a plantation who is exposed to insecticides, pesticides, chemicals and toxic substances shall be medically examined periodically, in such manner as may be prescribed by the state government(6) every employer of a plantation shall maintain health record of every worker in plantation who is exposed to insecticides, pesticides, chemicals and toxic substances which are used, handled, stored or transported in a plantation, and every such worker shall have access to such record45(7) every employer of a plantation shall provide—(a) washing, bathing and clock room facilities; and (b) protective clothing and equipment, to every worker engaged in the handling insecticides, pesticides, chemicals and toxic substances in such manner as may be prescribed by the state government5(8) every employer of a plantation shall display in the plantation, a list of permissible concentrations of insecticides, pesticides, chemicals and toxic substances in the breathing zone of the workers engaged in the handling and application of insecticides, pesticides, chemicals and toxic substances in the plantation10(9) every employer of a plantation shall exhibit such precautionary notices in the plantation as may be prescribed by the state government indicating the hazards of insecticides, pesticides, chemicals and toxic substances chapter xii offences and penalties15general penalty for offences2094 save as is otherwise expressly provided in this code, if in, or in respect of, any establishment, there is any contravention of the provisions of this code or regulations or rules, or bye-laws or any of standards, made thereunder or of any order in writing given under this code or such regulations or rules or bye-laws or standards, the employer or the principal employer of the establishment, as the case may be, shall be liable to penalty which shall not be less than two lakhs rupees but which may extend up to three lakh rupees, and if the contravention is continued after the conviction, then, with further penalty which may extend to two thousand rupees for each day till such contravention continues95 (1)whoever wilfully—25(i) prevents or causes obstruction to a chief inspector-cum-facilitator or inspector-cum-facilitator or an officer of the appropriate government or a person authorised to discharge any duty or to exercise any powers under this code or the rules or the regulations or the bye-laws made thereunder, from discharging such duty or exercising such power; orpunishment for causing obstruction to chief inspectorcum- facilitator or inspector-cum -facilitator etc30(ii) refuses entry to the chief inspector-cum-facilitator or the inspector-cum-facilitator or person or public authority referred to in clause (i) of sub-section (1) of section 35 or expert referred to in section 37, to any place where such chief inspectorcum-facilitator or inspector-cum-facilitator or such person or authority or expert is entitled to enter; or(iii) fails or refuses to produce any document which he is required to produce; or (iv) fails to comply with any requisition or order issued to him,35under this code or the rules, regulations or bye-laws made thereunder he shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three months, or with fine which may extend to one lakh rupees, or with both40(2) where any person convicted of an offence punishable under sub-section (1) is again convicted of an offence under the same provision, then, he shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine which shall not be less than one lakh rupees but which may extend to two lakh rupees, or with both96  (1) any person, who is required under this code or the rules or regulations or bye-laws or order made thereunder, to—(i) maintain any register or other document or to file returns, omits or fails to maintain such register or document or to file such returns; or45penalty for nonmaintenance of register, records and non-filing of returns, etc(ii) produce any register or plan or record or report or any other document, omits or fails to produce such register or plan or record or report or such other document,5he shall be liable to penalty which shall not be less than fifty thousand rupees but which may extend to one lakh rupees(2) where any person convicted of an offence punishable under sub-section (1) is again convicted of an offence under the same provision, then, he shall be liable to penalty which shall not be less than fifty thousand rupees but which may extend to two lakh rupees1097 (1) any person, who, save as permitted by or under this code, contravenes, any—| (                                                                              | i   | ) provision of this code or of any rule, regulation or bye-laws; or     ||--------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-----|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|| punishment                                                                     |     |                                                                         || for                                                                            |     |                   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                        |15he shall be liable to penalty which shall not be less than fifty thousand rupees but which may extend to one lakh rupees(2) where any person convicted of an offence punishable under sub-section (1) is again convicted of an offence under the same provision, then, he shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three months, or with fine which may extend to two lakh rupees, or with both2098  (1) whoever—punishment for falsification of records, etc(a) produces false records or counterfeits or knowingly makes or produces or uses a false statement, declaration or evidence regarding any document in connection with compliance of any of the provisions of this code or any rules, regulations or bye-laws or any order made thereunder; or25(b) falsifies any plan or section, the maintenance of which is required by or under this code or produces before any authority such plan or section, knowing the same to be false; or(c) makes, gives or delivers knowingly a false plan, section, return, notice, record or report containing a statement, entry or detail,30he shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three months, or with fine which may extend to one lakh rupees, or with both35(2) where any person convicted of an offence punishable under sub-section (1) is again convicted of an offence under the same provision, then, he shall be punishable with imprisonment  for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine which shall not be less than one lakh rupees but which may extend to two lakh rupees, or with bothpenalty for omission to furnish plans, etc4099  any person who, without reasonable excuse the burden of proving which shalllies upon him, omits to make or furnish in the prescribed form or manner or at, or within, the prescribed time any plan, section, return, notice, register, record or report required by or under any provision of this code to be made or furnished, he shall be liable to penalty which shall not be less than one lakh rupees but which may extend to two lakh rupeespunishment for disclosure of information45100 (1) whoever being the chief inspector-cum-facilitator or inspector-cum-facilitator or any other person referred to in section 39 or section 121 discloses, contrary to the provisions of that section, any such information as is referred to in that section without the consent of the appropriate government, he shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three months, or with fine which may extend to one lakh rupees, or with both(2) no court shall proceed with the trial of any offence under this section except with the previous sanction of the appropriate government5punishment for wrongfully disclosing results of analysis101  whoever, except in so far as it may be necessary for the purposes of a prosecutionfor any offence punishable under this code, publishes or discloses to any person the results of an analysis, of a sample of substance used or intended to be used in any process under this code, shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term, which may extend to six months, or with fine, which may extend to fifty thousand rupees, or with both102 (1) whoever fails to comply with or contravenes any of his duties specified under—10(i) clauses (a) to (h) of sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) of section 6 or clause (d) of section 13 in so far as such duty relates to hazardous processes; or(ii) section 80,punishment for contravention of provisions of duties relating to hazardous processes15shall, in respect of such failure or contravention, be punishable with an imprisonment for a term which may extend to two years and with fine which may extend to five lakh rupees, and in case the failure or contravention continues, with additional fine which may extend to twenty-five thousand rupees for every day during which such failure or contravention continues, after the conviction for the first such failure or contravention20(2) if the failure or contravention referred to in sub-section (1) continues beyond a period of one year after the date of conviction, the offender shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years or with a fine of twenty lakh rupees, or with both103 (1) if a person fails to comply with or contravenes any duties under this code or the regulations, rules, bye-laws or orders made thereunder and such non-compliance or contravention has resulted in an accident or dangerous occurrences causing—25(a) death, he shall be punishable with an imprisonment for a term which mayextend to two years, or with a fine which shall not be less than five lakh rupees, or with both; orpunishment for contravention of provisions of duties relating to safety provisions resulting in an accident30(b) serious bodily injury to any person within the establishment, he shall bepunishable with an imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year, or with a fine which shall not be less than two lakh rupees but not exceeding four lakh rupees, or with both:35provided that while imposing the fine under this section, the court may direct that a portion of the fine, which shall not be less than fifty per cent thereof, shall be given as compensation to the victim or to the legal heirs of the victim, in the case of his death (2) where a person having been convicted under sub-section (1) is again convicted thereunder, shall be punishable with double the punishment provided under that sub-section for first conviction40104 whoever continues to work in contravention of any general or special order issued under the provisions of section 38, shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to two years and shall also be liable to fine which may extend to five lakh rupees:special provision for contravention of order under section 38provided that the court shall not impose a fine under this section which shall be less than two lakh rupees without recording in the judgment the reasons for imposing such fine45105 whoever in compliance of the provisions of section 67, fails to appoint a manager shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three months, or with fine which may extend to one lakh rupees, or with bothfailure to appoint manager in mineoffences by employees 106 (1) subject to the provisions of section 13, except clause (d) thereof, if any employee employed in a workplace contravenes any provision of this code or any rules or orders made thereunder, imposing any duty or liability on employee, he shall be punishable with penalty which may extend to ten thousand rupees5(2) where an employee is convicted of an offence punishable under sub-section (1)the employer of the establishment shall not be deemed to be guilty of an offence in respect of that contravention, unless it is proved that he failed to take all reasonable measures for its prevention10prosecution of owner, agent or manager of mine107 no prosecution shall be instituted against any owner, agent or manager of a mine for any offence under this code except at the instance of the chief inspector-cum-facilitator or of the district magistrate or of inspector-cum-facilitator authorised in this behalf by general or special order in writing by the chief inspector-cum-facilitator:15provided that the chief inspector-cum-facilitator or the district magistrate or the inspector-cum-facilitator as so authorised shall before instituting such prosecution satisfy himself that the owner, agent or manager of a mine had failed to exercise due diligence to prevent the commission of such offence:provided further that in respect of an offence committed in the course of the technical direction and management of a mine, the district magistrate shall not institute any prosecution against an owner, agent or manager of a mine without the previous approval of the chief inspector-cum-facilitator2025exemption of owner, agent or manager of mine or occupier of factory from liability in certain cases108 where the owner, agent or manager of the mine or employer or occupier of the factory is charged with an offence punishable under this code he shall be entitled, upon complaint duly made by him and on giving to the prosecutor not less than three clear days' notice in writing of his intention so to do, to have any other person whom he charges as the actual offender brought before the court at the time appointed for hearing the charge; and if, after the commission of the offence has been proved, the owner, agent or manager of the mine or occupier or manager of the factory, as the case may be, proves to the satisfaction of the court—(a) that he has exercised due diligence to enforce the execution of this code, or30(b) that the said other person committed the offence in question without his knowledge, consent or connivance,35that other person shall be convicted of the offence and shall be liable to the like punishment as if he was the owner, agent or manager of the mine or occupier or manager of the factory, as the case may be, and the owner, agent or manager of a mine or the occupier or the manager of the factory shall be, discharged from any liability under this code in respect of such offence:40provided that in seeking to prove as aforesaid the owner, agent or manager of a mineor the occupier or manager of the factory, as the case may be, may be examined on oath, and his evidence and that of any witness whom he calls in his support, shall be subject to cross-examination on behalf of the person he charges as the actual offender and by the prosecutor:45provided further that, if the person charged as the actual offender by the owner, agentor manager of the mine or occupier or manager of the factory as the case may be, cannot be brought before the court at the time appointed for hearing the charge, the court shall adjourn the hearing from time to time for a period not exceeding three months and if by the end of the said period the person charged as the actual offender cannot still be brought before the court, the court shall proceed to hear the charge against the owner, agent or manager of the mine or occupier or manager of the factory, as the case may be, and shall, if the offence be proved, convict himoffences by companies, etc109 (1) where an offence under this code has been committed by a company, every person who, at the time the offence was committed, was in charge of, and was responsible to, the company for the conduct of the business of the company, as well as the company, shall be deemed to be guilty of the offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly:5provided that nothing contained in this sub-section shall render any such person liable to any punishment, if he proves that the offence was committed without his knowledge or that he had exercised all due diligence to prevent the commission of such offence10(2) notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1) where any offence under this code has been committed by a company and it is proved that the offence has been committed with the consent or connivance of, or is attributable to any neglect on the part of any director, manager, company secretary or other officer of the company, such director, manager, company secretary or other officer shall be deemed to be guilty of that offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly15explanation—for the purposes of this section,—(a) "company" means any body corporate and includes a firm or other association of individuals; and(b) "director" means,—(i) in relation to a firm a partner thereof; or20(ii) the owner of a mine being a firm or other association of individuals or a company; or(iii) in case of association of individuals other than specified in sub-clause (ii), any of its members25limitation of prosecution and cognizance of offences110 (1) notwithstanding anything contained in this chapter, inspector-cum-facilitator shall, not initiate prosecution proceeding against an employer for any offence under this chapter, give an opportunity to comply with relevant provisions of this act within a period of thirty days from the date of notice giving opportunity, and, if the employer complies with such provisions within such period, then, no such proceeding shall be initiated against such employer:30provided that no such opportunity shall be accorded to an employer in case of an accident and if the violation of the same nature of the provisions under this code is repeated within a period of three years from the date on which such first violation was committed and in such case the prosecution shall be initiated in accordance with provisions of sub-section (2)35(2) no court shall take cognizance of any offence punishable under this code, unlessa complaint in respect thereof is made within six months of the date on which the alleged commission of the offence came to the knowledge of the inspector-cum-facilitator and a complaint is filed in that regard by him(3) no court inferior to that of a metropolitan magistrate or a judicial magistrate of the first class shall try any offence punishable under this codeexplanation—for the purposes of this section,—40(a) in the case of a continuing offence, the period of limitation shall be computed with reference to every point of time during which the offence continues;(b) where for the performance of any act, time is granted or extended on an application made by the employer of an establishment, the period of limitation shall be computed from the date on which the time so granted or extended expired455power of officers of appropriate government to impose penalty in certain cases111 (1) notwithstanding anything contained in section 110, for the purpose of imposing penalty under sub-section (3) of section 12 or sections 94, 96, 97, 99, 106 and sub-section (3) of section 114, the appropriate government may appoint any officer not below the rank of under secretary to the government of india or an officer of equivalent rank in the state government, as the case may be, for holding enquiry in such manner, as may be prescribed by the central government10(2) while holding the enquiry, the officer referred to in sub-section (1) shall have the power to summon and enforce attendance of any person acquainted with the facts and circumstances of the case to give evidence or to produce any document, which in the opinion of such officer, may be useful for or relevant to the subject matter of the enquiry and if, on such enquiry, he is satisfied that the person has committed any offence under the provisions referred to in sub-section (1), he may impose such penalty as he thinks fit in accordance with the provisions of that sub-section1520(3) any person aggrieved by an order made by the officer under sub-section (2) may prefer an appeal,in such form and manner and accompanied by such fee as may be prescribed, to the appellate authority to be appointed by the appropriate government from amongst officers not below the rank of deputy secretary to the government of india or an officer of equivalent rank in the state government, as the case may be, within sixty days from the date on which the copy of the order made by the officer referred in sub-section (1) is received by the aggrieved person(4) the appellate authority may, after giving the parties to the appeal an opportunity of being heard, pass such order as he thinks fit, confirming, modifying or setting aside the order appealed against, within a period of sixty days from the date of receipt of appeal25(5) where a person fails to pay the penalty so imposed within a period of ninety days from the date of receipt of the copy of the order, he shall be punishable with fine which shall not be less than twenty-five thousand rupees but which may extend up to two lakh rupees(6) the amount of penalty imposed and received under this section shall be credited to the fund established under sub-section (1) of section 11530112 for the purposes of conferring jurisdiction on any court in relation to an offenceunder this code or the rules, regulation or bye-laws made thereunder in connection with an establishment, the place where the establishment is for the time being situated, shall be deemed to be the place where such offence has been committedjurisdiction of court for entertaining proceedings, etc, for offencepower of court to make orders35113 (1) where the employer of a mine or a factory or a dock is convicted of an offence punishable under this code, the court may, in addition to awarding him any punishment, by order in writing, require him within the period specified in the order (which may be extended by the court from time to time on application made in this behalf) to take such measures as may be specified in the order for remedying the matters in respect of which the offence was committed40(2) where an order is made under sub-section (1), the employer of the mine or thefactory shall not be liable under this code in respect of the continuance of the offence during the period or extended period, if any, but if on the expiry of such period or extended period the order of the court has not been fully complied with, employer shall be deemed to have committed a further offence and shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine which may extend to one hundred rupees for every day after such expiry on which the order has not been complied with, or with both45composition of certain offences2 of 1974114 (1) notwithstanding anything contained in the code of criminal procedure,1973, any penalty under sub-section (3) of section 12 or section 94 or section 96 orsub-section (1) of section 97or section 99 or section 106 or sub-section (3) or any offenceunder sub-section (2) of section 97 or sub-section (1) of section 100 or section 101 or clause (b) of sub-section (1) of section 103 or section 105 or sub-section (2) of section 113 may either before or after the holding the enquiry or as the case may be, of institution of prosecution may be compounded by such officer of the appropriate government as may be notified by that government in the manner as may be prescribed by it—5(a) in a case of penalty for a sum of fifty per cent of the maximum penalty provided for such penalty; and(b) in a case of offence for a sum of seventy-five per cent of the maximum fine provided for such offence10(2) where a penalty or an offence has been compounded under sub-section (1), the person liable for penalty or the offender, as the case may be, shall be discharged of the penalty or offence and there shall be no further proceedings against him in respect of such penalty or offence15(3) any person who fails to comply with an order made by the officer referred to in sub-section (1), shall be liable to pay a penalty equivalent to twenty per cent of the maximum penalty or fine provided for the penalty or the offence, as the case may be, in addition to the penalty or fine(4) the amount of composition received under sub-section (1) shall be credited to the fund established under sub-section (1) of section 115 for the unorganised workers20(5) nothing contained in sub-section (1) shall apply to a penalty or an offence committed by a person for a second or subsequent time within a period of three years from the date of penalty or offence, as the case may be,—(a) which was earlier compounded; or (b) for which such person was earlier convictedchapter xiii25 social security fundsocial security fund115 (1) there shall be established by the appropriate government a social securityfund for the welfare of the unorganised workers to which there shall be credited the amount received from composition of the offence as specified in sub-section (4) of section 114 andthe amount of the penalty as specified in sub-section (6) of section 11130(2) the fund may also be funded by such other sources as may be prescribed by the appropriate government35(3) the fund shall be administered and expended for welfare of the unorganised workers in such manner as may be prescribed by the appropriate government including the transfer of the amount in the fund to any fund established under any other law for the time being inforce for the welfare of the unorganised workersexplanation—for the purpose of this section the expression "unorganised worker"shall have the same meaning as is assigned to it under clause (m) of section 2 of the unorganised workers social security act, 200833 of 2008 chapter xiv40 miscellaneousdelegation of powers45116 the central government may, by notification, direct that any power exercisable by it under this code or rules made thereunder shall, in relation to such matters and subject to such conditions, if any, as may be specified in the notification, be exercisable also by the state government or by such officer or authority subordinate to the state government as may be specified in the said notificationonus as to age117 (1) when any offence is committed under this code involving an issue of a certain age of a person and such person is in the opinion of the court prima facie under such age, the burden shall be on the accused to prove that such person is not under such age510(2) the medical authority prescribed by the central governmentshall, while examininga worker for issuing the certificate of age for the purposes of this code, take into account the aadhaar card of the worker, and in the absence thereof, the date of birth certificate from school or the matriculation or equivalent certificate from the concerned examination board of the worker, if available, and in the absence thereof, the birth certificate of the worker given by a corporation or a municipal authority or a panchayat, and only in the absence of any of the methods specified in this sub-section, the age shall be determined by such medical authority through an ossification test or any other latest medical age determination test15onus of proving limits of what is practicable, etc118 in any proceeding for an offence for the contravention of any provision of this code or regulations or bye-laws or rules made thereunder consisting of a failure to comply with a duty or requirement to do something, it shall be for the person who is alleged to have failed to comply with such duty or requirement, to prove that it was not reasonably practicable or all practicable measures were taken to satisfy the duty or requirement20119 (1) notwithstanding anything contained in this code, any person desirous of obtaining common licence in respect of a factory, industrial premises for beedi and cigar work and for engaging contract workers or any combination thereof or single licence for any one of them under this code shall make an application electronically or otherwise to such authority as may be designated, by notification, by the appropriate governmentcommon licence for contractor, factories and to industrial premises, etc(2) the application under sub-section (1),—25(a) shall be in such form and filed in such manner and accompanied by such fee and contain such information as may be prescribed by the appropriate government;(b) shall, in so far as it relates to the licence for engaging contract labours, contain the number of inter-state migrant workers employed30(3) on receipt of an application under sub-section (1), the authority referred to in that sub-section shall take such actions in such manner and make such inquiry as may be prescribed by the appropriate government35(4) where the authority referred to in sub-section (1) is satisfied that the common licence may be issued in respect of a factory, industrial premises for beedi and cigar work and for engaging contract workers or any combination thereof or single licence for any one of them under this code, such authority shall issue a licence electronically within forty-five days of the receipt of application failing which the licence shall be deemed to be issued and shall be auto generated and the responsibility of such failure shall be on such authority:provided that where the licence is deemed to be issued, no further inquiry shall be made:provided further that the form of licence shall, as far as practicable, be similar throughout india:40provided also that where such authority rejects the application he shall assign the reason for such rejection45(5) notwithstanding anything contained in this code, any licence in respect of afactory, industrial premises for beedi and cigar work and for engaging contract labour has been obtained under any central labour law before the commencement of this code, in respect of any establishment shall be deemed to have been obtained under the provisions of this code and shall be valid for the period for which it was issued and shall have to be obtained afresh after its expiration5(6) any person aggrieved by an order passed under this section by the authority referred to in sub-section (1) may file, within thirty days from the date of the order, an appeal in such form, accompanied with such fee to such appellate authority as may be prescribed by the appropriate government and the appeal shall be disposed of electronically within thirty days of the filing of the appeal120 (1) the provisions of this code shall have effect notwithstanding anything inconsistent therewith contained in any other law for the time being in force or in the terms of any award, agreement or contract of service whether made before or after the commencement of this code:effect of law and agreements inconsistent with code10provided that where under any such award, agreement, contract of service or otherwise an employee is entitled to benefits in respect of any matters which are more favourable to him than those to which he will be entitled to under this code, the employee shall continue to get the former notwithstanding that he receives benefits in respect of other matters under this code15(2) nothing contained in this code shall be construed as precluding any employee from entering into an agreement with an employer for granting him rights or privileges in respect of any matter which are more favourable to him than those to which he would be entitled under this code20power of appropriate government to direct inquiry in certain cases25121 (1) the appropriate government may, in the event of the occurrence of an accident in an establishment which has caused or had the potentiality to cause serious danger to employees and other persons within, and in the vicinity of the workplace or whether immediate or delayed, or any occupational disease as specified in the third schedule, which has been or is suspected to have been contracted, in epidemic proportions, appoint one or more persons possessing legal or special knowledge to act as assessors or competent persons in such inquiry in order to inquire into the causes of the accident and disease, fix responsibilities and suggest a plan of action for the future to prevent such accidents or diseases and submit the report to the appropriate government30(2) the appropriate government may direct a chief inspector-cum-facilitator or any other officer under the control of the government concerned or appoint a committee to undertake a survey in such manner as may be prescribed by the appropriate government on the situation relating to safety or health at work at any workplace or class of workplaces or into the effect of work activity on the health of the employees and other persons within and in the vicinity of the workplace(3) the officer directed or committee appointed under sub-section (1) to hold an inquiry, shall have the powers of a civil court under the code of civil procedure, 1908, for the purposes of enforcing the attendance of witnesses and compelling the production of documents and material objects, and may also so far as may be necessary for the purposes of the inquiry, exercise such powers of an inspector-cum-facilitator under this code as may be necessary40(4) the central government may make rules for regulating the procedure of inquiry and survey and other related matters under this sectionpublication of reports122 the appropriate government may, if it thinks fit, cause to be published any report submitted to it by the national board or state advisory board or any extracts from any report submitted to it under this code45123 the central government may give directions to a state government for the implementation of the provisions of this codepowers of central government to give directions124 (1) no person shall in respect of the establishment, disclose any information relating to any manufacturing or commercial business or any working process which may come to his knowledge in the course of his official dutiesgeneral restriction on disclosure of information5(2) nothing in sub-section (1) shall apply to any disclosure of information made withthe previous consent in writing of the owner of the business or process or for the purposes of any legal proceeding (including adjudication or arbitration), pursuant to any of the relevant statutory provisions or of any criminal proceeding under this code which may be taken, whether pursuant to any of the relevant statutory provisions or otherwise, or for the purposes of any report of any such proceedingsjurisdiction of civil courts barred125 no civil court shall have jurisdiction in respect of any matter to which anyprovision of this code applies and no injunction shall be granted by any civil court in respect of anything which is done or intended to be done by or under this code10protection of action taken in good faith126 (1) no suit, prosecution or other legal proceeding shall lie against any person foranything which is in good faith done or intended to be done in pursuance of this code or any rule or regulation or bye-laws or order made thereunder15(2) no prosecution or other legal proceeding shall lie against the government, anyboard or committees constituted under this code 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 code or any rule or regulation or bye-laws or order made or issued thereunder20power to exempt in special cases127 (1) the appropriate government may, by notification and subject to suchconditions and restrictions, if any, and for such period or periods as may be specified in the notification, direct that all or any of the provisions of this code or the rules or the regulations made thereunder shall not apply to or in relation to any establishment or class of establishments25(2) without prejudice to the generality of sub-section (1), where the state governmentis satisfied in the public interest that it is necessary to create more economic activities and employment opportunities, it may, by notification, exempt, subject to such conditions as it may think fit, any new factory or class or description of new factories from all or any of the provisions of this code for such period from the date on which such commercial production starts, as may be specified in the notification:3063 of 1948provided that any notification issued by a state government under the factories act,1948 for the time being in force in the state prior to the commencement of this code to achieve the same purpose as is specified in this sub-section, shall remain in force after such commencement for its remaining period as if the provisions of this code, to the extent they defeat any purpose to be achieved by such notification issued by the state government, were not in force35explanation—for the purpose of this sub-section, the expression "new factory or class or description of new factories" means such factory or class or description of factories which are established and whose commercial production start within such period as may be specified in the notification40power to exempt during public emergency128  in case of a public emergency or disaster or pandemic in whole of india or partthereof, the appropriate government may, by notification, exempt any workplace or work activity or class thereof from all or any of the provisions of this code for such period and subject to such conditions as it may think fit:provided that no such notification shall be made for a period exceeding one year at a time45explanation—for the purposes of this section 'public emergency' means a grave emergency whereby the security of india or any part of the territory thereof is threatened, whether by war or external aggression or internal disturbancepower to exempt public institution129 the appropriate government may exempt, subject to such conditions as it may consider necessary, any workshop or workplace where a manufacturing process is carried on and which is attached to a public institution maintained for the purposes of education, training, research or information, from all or any of the provisions of this code:510provided that no such exemption shall be granted from the provisions relating tohours of work and holidays unless the persons having the control of the institution submit, for the approval of the appropriate government, a scheme of the regulation of the hours of employment, intervals for meals, and holidays of the persons employed in or attending the institution or who are inmates for the institution, and the appropriate government is satisfied that the provisions of the scheme are not less favourable than the corresponding provisions of this code45 of 1860130 every person required to give any notice or to furnish any information to any authority in relation to the provisions of this code shall be legally bound to do so within the meaning of section 176 of the indian penal code15131 the central government may, by notification, amend any schedule by way of addition, alteration or omission therein and on any such notification being issued, the schedule shall be deemed to be amended accordinglypersons required to give notice, etc, legally bound to do so power of central government to amend the schedulepower to remove difficulties20132 (1) if any difficulty arises in giving effect to the provisions of this code, thecentral government may, by order published in the official gazette, make such provisions not inconsistent with the provisions of this code, as appears to it to be necessary or expedient for removing the difficulty:provided that no such order shall be made after the expiry of two years from the date on which this code comes into force25(2) every order made under this section shall, as soon as may be after it is made, belaid before each house of parliament133 (1) the appropriate government may, subject to the condition of previous publication and by notification, make rules for carrying out the purposes of this codepower of appropriate governmentto make rules(2) in particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, suchrules may provide for all or any of the following matters, namely:—30(a) income from the sources under explanation to clause (x) of sub-section (1)of section 2;(b) substance or quantity of substance under clause (zb) of sub-section (1) ofsection 2;(c) the late fee under the proviso to sub-section (1) of section 3;35(d) the manner of submitting application under sub-section (2) of section 3 andthe form of such application and the particulars to be contained therein and the fees to be accompanied therewith;(e) the form and manner of sending the notice and the authority to whom thenotice shall be sent and the manner of intimating the authority under sub-section (1)of section 5;40(f) annual health examination or test free of costs, age of employees or class ofemployees or establishment or class of establishments under clause (c) of sub-section (1) of section 6;45(g) the information to be included in the letter of appointment and the form ofsuch letter under clause (f) sub-section (1) of section 6;(h) the nature of bodily injury and the manner of notice and the time within which the notice shall be sent and the authority to which notice shall be sent under sub-section (1) of section 10;5(i) nature of dangerous occurrence and the form of notice, the time within whichand the authority to which notice shall be sent under section 11;(j) the form of notice related to certain diseases and the time within which thenotice shall be sent and the authority to which the notice shall be sent under sub-section (1) of section 12;10(k) the form and manner of the report and the time within which such reportshall be sent to the office of the chief inspector-cum-facilitator under sub-section (2)of section 12;(l) manner of making report by employee under clause (d) and other duties ofemployees under clause (g) of section 13;(m) manner of sending report of action taken under sub-section (3) ofsection 14;15(n) the manner of constituting a safety committee and the manner and thepurpose for choosing the representative of the workers in the safety committee under sub-section (1) of section 22;20(o) the qualifications, duties and number of safety officers under sub-section (2)of section 22;(p) conditions for exemption of workers from weekly and compensatory holidaysunder sub-section (2) of section 26;(q) the total number of over time under second proviso to section 27;25(r) circumstances for exemption from restriction on double employment in factoryand mine under section 30;(s) the form of notice and manner of display of such notice and the manner inwhich such notice shall be sent to the inspector-cum-facilitator under sub-section (2)of section 31;(t) the form of register and particulars of workers under clause (a) of section 33;30(u) the manner and form of displaying notices under clause (b) of section 33; (v) return, manner of filing the return and periods of filing return to the inspectorcum-facilitator under clause (d) of section 33;(w) the qualification and experience of chief inspector-cum-facilitator undersub-section (5) of section 34;35(x) the manner of taking samples of any article or substance found in anypremises and air of atmosphere under clause (x) of sub-section (1) of section 35;(y) the other powers and duties under clause (xiv) of sub-section (1) ofsection 35;(z) the specialised qualification and experience, duties and responsibilities ofexperts to be empanelled under section 37;40(za) the manner of providing alternative employment under sub-clause (d) ofclause (a) of sub-section (1) of section 38;(zb) the qualification for the appointment of medical practitioner and otherestablishment under sub-section (1) of section 42;(zc) other establishment engaged in the dangerous occupation or processes under clause (a) of sub-section (2) of section 42;(zd) medical supervision and other establishment under clause (b) of sub-section (2) of section 42;(ze) other establishment under clause (c) of sub-section (2) of section 42;5(zf) conditions relating to safety, holidays and working hours or any othercondition to be observed by the employer under section 43;(zg) the manner of requiring the employer to provide the adequate safeguardsunder section 44;10(zh) conditions including, in particular, conditions as to hours of work, fixationof wages and other essential amenities in respect of contract labour under clause (a)of sub-section (3) of section 47;15(zi) the form and manner of application and the particulars which such applicationshall contain regarding the number of contract labour, nature of work for which contract labour is to be employed and other particulars including the information relating to the employment of inter-state migrant workers under sub-section (1) of section 48;(zj) the investigation and procedure under sub-section (2) of section 48;(zk) manner of applying for the renewal of licence and the manner of renewal oflicence under sub-section (3) of section 48;(zl) responsibility of the contractor under sub-section (4) of section 48;20(zm) the manner of intimation of work order and time limit for such intimationunder sub-section (1) of section 50;(zn) the manner of suspending or cancelling the licence under sub-section (2)of section 50;25(zo) the period before which the wages shall be paid under sub-section (1) ofsection 55;(zp) the mode of payment of wages under proviso to sub-section (2) ofsection 55;30(zq) the manner of payment of wages from security deposit under sub-section (4)of section 55;(zr) the form of issuing experience certificate under section 56;(zs) the form and manner of making application under clause (b) of sub-section (2)of section 57;35(zt) period of making report and the period of deciding the question underclause (c) of sub-section (2) of section 57;(zu) minimum service for entitlement, class of travel and other matters undersection 61;(zv) manner of providing facility of toll free helpline under section 63;40(zw) manner of providing for study on inter-state migrant workers undersection 64;(zx) authority to whom a copy of the agreement shall be forwarded by theproducer under sub-section (3) of section 66;(zy) details under clause (vii) of sub-section (4) of section 66;(zz) rules in respect of factory or class or description of factories undersub-section (1) of section 79;(zza) mode of submission of application under sub-section (2) of section 79;5(zzb) common facilities and services for joint liability of owner of premises andoccupiers of the factories under section 80;(zzc) rules under section 82; (zzd) purposes under sub-section (1) of section 83; (zze) form of application under sub-section (2) of section 83;10(zzf) the appellate authority for appeal against the order of inspector-cum-facilitator of factory and the manner of appeal under section 90;(zzg) rules under section 91; (zzh) manner of holding enquiry under sub-section (1) of section 111; (zzi) form and manner of preferring appeal and the fee to accompany suchappeal under sub-section (3) of section 111;15(zzj) manner of compounding under sub-section (1) of section 114; (zzk) other sources of fund under sub-section (2) of section 115;(zzl) the manner of administering and expending the fund under sub-section (3)of section 115;20(zzm) the form of application, manner of filing the application and the fee to beaccompanied therewith including the information relating to the employment of inter- state migrant workers under sub-section (2) of section 119;(zzn) actions, manner of taking actions and inquiry under sub-section (3) ofsection 119;25(zzo) the form of appeal, the fee to be accompanied therewith and the appellateauthority under sub-section (6) of section 119;(zzp) the manner of survey under sub-section (2) of section 121; (zzq) any other matter which is required to be, or may be, prescribed under thiscode134 (1) the central government may, subject to the conditions of previous publication and by notification, make rules for carrying out the purposes of this code30power of central government to make rules(2) in particular, and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such rules may provide for all or any of the following matters, namely:—(a) the other authority under sub-clause (iii) of clause (zs) of sub-section (1) ofsection 2;35(b) the matters which are directly related to the condition of ship under theproviso to sub-clause (iii) of clause (zs) of sub-section (1) of section 2;(c) other period under clause (a) of sub-section (1) of section 3;(d) the form of certificate of registration, the time within which and the conditionssubject to which such certificate shall be issued under sub-section (3) of section 3;40(e) the form of intimation by the employer electronically and the manner ofamendment in the certificate electronically under sub-section (4) of section 3;(f) the manner of informing closing of establishment and certifying payment tothe registering officer under sub-section (5) of section 3;(g) procedure for nomination and discharge of functions of members of national board under sub-section (3) of section 16;(h) the terms and conditions of service of officers and employees of the national board under sub-section (4) of section 16;5(i) the number of members of technical committees or advisory committees andtheir qualifications under sub-section (5) of section 16;(j) the form and manner of collecting, compiling and analyzing occupationalsafety and health statistics under sub-section (1) of section 21;(k) the form and manner of maintaining database electronically or otherwiseand the documents to be produced under sub-section (2) of section 21;10(l) health and working conditions under sub-section (1) of section 23;(m) regarding matters specified in sub-section (2) of section 23;(n) welfare facilities for the employees under sub-section (1) of section 24; (o) regarding matters specified in sub-section (2) of section 24;(p) facility of crèche under sub-section (3) of section 24;15(q) definition of  "running time" in relation to a working day under clause (a) ofthe explanation to sub-section (1) of section 25;(r) the hours of work for working journalist under sub-section (2) of section 25;(s) other kinds of leave under clause (i) of sub-section (3) of section 25;20(t) the maximum period of accumulating leave under clause (ii) of sub-section (3)of section 25;(u) the limit up to which the earned leave may be availed of at a time and thereasons for which such leave may be exceeding under clause (iii) of sub-section (3)of section 25;25(v) conditions and restrictions for entitlement of cash compensation underclause (iv) of sub-section (3) of section 25;(w) powers and duties of district magistrate under section 36;| (   | x   | ) requisite qualifications or criteria under sub-section (   | 1   | ) of section 47;   ||-----|-----|--------------------------------------------------------------|-----|--------------------|| (   | y   | ) period of renewal of licence under sub-section (           | 2   | ) of section 47;   || 30  |     |                                                              |     |                    || (   | z   | ) procedure under clause (                                   | b   | ) of sub-section ( |(za) form of agreement under clause (a), and the name and other particularsunder clause (b) of sub-section (2) of section 66;(zb) the matter which may be saved and the qualifications of sole managerunder sub-section (1) of section 67;35(zc) the conditions relating to number of employees, depth of excavation andother matters under clause (a) of sub-section (1) of section 68;(zd) conditions relating to workings, opencast workings and explosives underclause (b) of sub-section (1) of section 68;40(ze) to declare the mines and part thereof for the purpose of applicability of theprovisions of this code under sub-section (2) of section 68;(zf) the authority, the manner of informing such authority and the time limit formaking such information under sub-section (3) of section 68;(zg) to provide for medical examination of apprentice, other trainee or employeeunder sub-section (3) of section 70;(zh) to exempt certain persons or category of persons holding positions ofsupervision or management and the persons employed in mine and the persons employed therein under section 71;5(zi) to provide for vocational training and rescue and recovery services to thepersons employed in a mine under section 72;(zj) medical authority under sub-section (2) of section 117; (zk) rules under sub-section (4) of section 121; (zl) the language of the bye-laws under sub-section (7) of section 139; (zm) any other matter which is required to be, or may be prescribed10power of state government to make rules135 (1) the state government may, subject to the condition of previous publication and by notification, make rules for the carrying out the provisions of this code by the state government(2) in particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such rules may provide for all or any of the following matters, namely:—15(a) the constitution, procedure and other matters relating to state advisoryboard under sub-section (2) of section 17;(b) the number of members and their qualifications under sub-section (3) ofsection 17;(c) the form of application and the payment of fees under sub-section (2) ofsection 74;20(d) the manner of preparing the plan of the place or premises under sub-section (3)of section 74;(e) other matters under clause (e) of sub-section (4) of section 74;(f) fees under sub-section (6) of section 74; (g) period under the second proviso to sub-section (6) of section 74;25(h) the time of filing appeal and fees under section 75; (i) the form of application by the employee and conditions under sub-section (1)of section 76;30(j) form of maintaining the record of the work under sub-section (2) ofsection 76;(k) the manner of disclosing information by occupier of a factory undersub-section (1) of section 84;35(l) the interval of informing chief inspector-cum- facilitator and the local authorityabout the policy with respect to the health and safety of the workers under sub-section (2) of section 84;(m) the form and manner of informing chief inspector-cum-facilitator undersub-section (5) of section 84;40(n) the manner of publicising among the workers and the general public living inthe vicinity of the factory the measures and disposal laid down under sub-section (7)of section 84;(o) the conditions for accessibility to the record by the workers under clause (a)of section 85;(p) the qualification and experience of persons handling hazardous substance and manner of providing necessary facilities for protecting the workers under clause (b) of section 85;5(q) the manner of providing for medical examination of a worker under sub-clause (ii) of clause (c) of section 85;(r) the measures or standards under sub-section (1) of section 86; (s) the value of the maximum permissible limit of exposure of chemical and toxic substances in manufacturing process in any factory under section 88;10(t) requiring every employer to make in his plantation provisions in respect of as specified in clauses (a) to (d) of sub-section (1) of section 92;(u) for prohibiting or, restricting employment of women or adolescents undersub-section (2) of section 93;(v) qualifications under sub-section (3) of section 93;(w) other matters under sub-section (4) of section 93;15(x) manner of periodical medical examination of worker under sub-section (5) ofsection 93;(y) the manner of providing facilities, clothing and equipment under sub-section (7) of section 93;(z) precautionary notices under sub-section (9) of section 93;20(za) any other matter which is required to be, or may be, prescribed(3) the central government may, by notification and in consultation with the state government, make rules for the purposes of bringing uniformity, throughout the country, in occupational safety, health or such other matters as it considers necessary in respect of factories25136 the central government may, by notification, make regulations consistent with this code for all or any of the following purposes, namely:—(a) for specifying the qualifications required for appointment as inspectorcum-facilitator;power of central government to make regulations in relation to mines and dock work30(b) for specifying and regulating the duties and powers of the chief inspectorcum-facilitator and of inspector-cum-facilitators in regard to the inspection of mines under this code;(c) for specifying the duties of owners, agents and managers of mines and of persons acting under them, and for specifying the qualifications (including age) of agents and managers of mines and of persons acting under them;35(d) for requiring facilities to be provided for enabling managers of mines andother persons acting under them to efficiently discharge their duties;(e) for regulating the manner of ascertaining, by examination or otherwise, thequalifications of managers of mines and persons acting under them, and the granting and renewal of certificates of competency;40(f) for fixing the fees, if any, to be paid in respect of such examinations and of thegrant and renewal of such certificates;(g) for determining the circumstances in which and the conditions subject towhich it shall be lawful for more mines than one to be under a single manager, or for any mines to be under a manager not having the specified qualifications;5 of 19085(h) for providing for inquiries to be made under this code, including any inquiryrelating to misconduct or incompetence on the part of any person holding a certificate under this code and for the suspension or cancellation of any such certificate and for providing, wherever necessary, that the person appointed to hold an inquiry shall have all the powers of a civil court under the code of civil procedure, 1908, for the purpose of enforcing the attendance of witnesses and compelling the production of documents and material objects;4 of 1884(i) for regulating, subject to the provisions of the indian explosives act, 1884,and of any rules made thereunder, the storage, conveyance and use of explosives;10(j) for prohibiting, restricting or regulating the employment of women in minesor in any class of mines or on particular kinds of labour which are attended by danger to the life, safety or health of such persons and for limiting the weight of any single load that may be carried by any such person;15(k) for providing for the safety of the persons employed in a mine, their meansof entrance there into and exit there from, the number of shafts or outlets to be furnished, and the fencing of shafts, pits, outlets, pathways and subsidences;(l) for prohibiting the employment in a mine either as manager or in any otherspecified capacity of any person except persons paid by the owner of the mine and directly answerable to the owner or manager of the mine;20(m) for providing for the safety of the roads and working places in mines,including the siting, maintenance and extraction or reduction of pillars or blocks of minerals and the maintenance of sufficient barriers between mine and mine;25(n) for the inspection of workings and sealed off fire- areas in a mine, and for therestriction of workings in the vicinity of the sea or any lake or river or any other body of surface water, whether natural or artificial, or of any public road or building, and for requiring due precaution to be taken against the irruption or inrush of water or other liquid matter into, outbreak of fire in or premature collapse of, any workings;(o) for providing for the ventilation of mines and the action to be taken inrespect of dust, fire, and inflammable and noxious gases, including precautions against spontaneous combustion, underground fire and coal dust;3036 of 2003(p) for regulating, subject to the provisions of the electricity act, 2003, and ofany rules made thereunder, the generation, storage, transformation, transmission and use of electricity in mines and for providing for the care and the regulation of the use of all electrical apparatus and electrical cables in mines and of all other machinery and plant therein;35(q) "for regulating the use of machinery in mines, for providing for the safety ofpersons employed on or near such machinery and on haulage roads and for restricting the use of certain classes of locomotives underground;40(r) for providing for proper lighting of mines and regulating the use of safetylamps therein and for the search of persons entering a mine in which safety lamps are in use;45(s) for providing against explosions or ignitions of inflammable gas or dust orirruptions of or accumulations of water in mines and against danger arising therefrom and for prohibiting, restricting or regulating the extraction of minerals in circumstances likely to result in the premature collapse of workings or to result in or to aggravate the collapse of workings or irruptions of water or ignitions in mines;(t) for specifying type of accidents for the purposes of notice under section 10and for specifying the notices of accidents and dangerous occurrences, and the notices, reports and returns of mineral output, persons employed and other mattersprovided for by regulations, to be furnished by owners, agents and managers of mines, and for specifying 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;510(u) for requiring owners, agents and managers of mines to have fixed boundariesfor the mines, for specifying 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-cum-facilitator, 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 any other agency and for the recovery of expenses thereof in the same manner as an arrear of land revenue;(v) for regulating the procedure on the occurrence of accidents or accidentalexplosions or ignitions in or about, mines; for dealing effectively with the situation15(w) for specifying the form of, and the particulars to be contained in, the noticeto be given by the owner, agent or manager of a mine under section 5;24 of 198920(x) for specifying the notice to be given by the owner, agent or manager of a mine before mining operations are commenced at or extended to any point within forty-five meters of any railway subject to the provisions of the indian railways act, 1989 or of any public roads or other works as the case may be, which are maintained by the government or any local authority;| (                                                                                    | y   | ) for the protection from injury, in respect of any mine when the workings are    ||--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-----|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------|| discontinued, of property vested in the government or any local authority or railway |     |                                                                                   || company as defined in the indian railways act, 1989;                                 |     |                                                                                   || 24 of 1989                                                                          |     |                                                                                   || 25                                                                                   |     |                                                                                   || (                                                                                    | z   | ) for requiring protective works to be constructed by the owner, agent or         || manager of a mine before the mine is closed, and in the event of non-compliance, for |     |                                                                                   || getting such works executed by any other agency and for recovering the expenses      |     |                                                                                   || thereof from such owner in the same manner as an arrear of land revenue;             |     |                                                                                   || 30                                                                                   |     |                                                                                   || (                                                                                    | za  | ) for requiring the fencing of any mine or part of a mine or any quarry, incline, || shaft, pit or outlet, whether the same is being worked or not, or any dangerous or   |     |                                                                                   || prohibited area, subsidence, haulage, tramline or pathway, where such fencing is     |     |                                                                                   || necessary for the protection of the public;                                          |     |                                                                                   |(zb) for specifying the number of officials to be appointed; (zc) for specifying the qualifications of the officials to be appointed; (zd) for specifying the qualifications and experience of the agents;35(ze) for specifying the period during which the agent shall be resident in india; (zf) for specifying duties and responsibilities of suppliers, designers, importerand contractors for safety in mines;(zg) for requiring the owners, agents and managers of mines to formulate, maintainand enforce safety management plan in their mines;40(zh) for requiring the managers of mines to formulate and implement codes of practice or standard operating procedure in respect of any machinery or operation used in the mines;(zi) for providing for the safety in opencast mines and associated operationsand machineries used therein;45(zj) for regulating the extraction of methane from working or abandoned coal mines or from virgin coal seam;(zk) for specifying the forms of returns which shall be filed by the establishments or the class of establishments under this code;(zl) for the general requirement relating to the construction, equipping andmaintenance for the safety of working places on shore, ship, dock, structure and other places at which any dock work is carried on;5(zm) for the safety of any regular approaches over a dock, wharf, quay or otherplaces which dock workers have to use for going for work and for fencing of such places and projects;10(zn) for the efficient lighting of all areas of dock, ship, any other vessel, dockstructure or working places where any dock work is carried on and of all approaches to such places to which dock workers are required to go in the course of their employment;(zo) providing and maintaining adequate ventilation and suitable temperaturein every building or an enclosure on ship where dock workers are employed;(zp) providing for the fire and explosion prevention and protection;15(zq) providing for safe means of access to ships, holds, stagings, equipment,lifting appliances and other working places;20(zr) providing for the safety of workers engaged in the opening and closing ofhatches, protection of ways and other openings in the docks which may be dangerous to them;(zs) providing for the safety of workers on docks from the risk of falling overboardbeing struck by cargo during loading or unloading operations;25(zt) providing for the construction, maintenance and use of lifting and othercargo handling appliances and services, such as, pallets containing or supporting loads and provision of safety appliances on them, if necessary;(zu) providing for the safety of workers employed in freight container terminalsor other terminals for handling unitised cargo;(zv) providing for the fencing of machinery, live electrical conductors, steampipes and hazardous openings;(zw) providing for the construction, maintenance and use of staging;30(zx) providing for the rigging and use of ship's derricks; (zy) providing for the testing, examination, inspection and certification asappropriate of loose gears including chains and ropes and of slings and other lifting devices used in the dock work;35(zz) providing for the precautions to be taken to facilitate escape of workerswhen employed in a hold, bin, hopper or the like or between decks of a hold while handling coal or other bulk cargo;(zza) providing for the measures to be taken in order to prevent dangerousmethods of working in the stacking, unstacking, stowing and unstowing of cargo or handling in connection therewith;40(zzb) providing for the handling of dangerous substances and working in dangerous or harmful environments and the precautions to be taken in connection with such handling;45(zzc) providing for the work in connection with cleaning, chipping, painting,operations and precautions to be taken in connection with such work;(zzd) providing for the employment of persons for handling cargo, handling appliances, power operated hatch covers or other power operated ship's equipment, such as, door in the hull of a ship, ramp, retraceable car deck or similar equipment or to give signals to the drivers of such machinery;| (                                                                                             | zze                                                                             | ) providing for the transport of dock workers;                                      ||-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|| 5                                                                                             |                                                                                 |                                                                                     || (                                                                                             | zzf                                                                             | ) providing for the precautions to be taken to protect dock workers against         || harmful effects of excessive noise, vibrations and air pollution at the work place;           |                                                                                 |                                                                                     || (                                                                                             | zzg                                                                             | ) providing for protective equipment or protective clothing;                        || (                                                                                             | zzh                                                                             | ) providing for the sanitary, washing and welfare facilities;                       || (                                                                                             | zzi                                                                             | ) providing for—                                                                    || 10                                                                                            |                                                                                 |                                                                                     || (                                                                                             | i                                                                               | ) the medical supervision;                                                          || (                                                                                             | ii                                                                              | ) the ambulance rooms, first aid and rescue facilities and arrangements             || for the removal of dock workers to the nearest place of treatment;                            |                                                                                 |                                                                                     || (                                                                                             | iii                                                                             | ) the safety and health organisation; and                                           || 15                                                                                            |                                                                                 |                                                                                     || (                                                                                             | iv                                                                              | ) the training of dock workers and for the obligations and rights of the            || dock workers for their safety and health at the work place;                                   |                                                                                 |                                                                                     || 20                                                                                            |                                                                                 |                                                                                     || (                                                                                             | zzj                                                                             | ) providing for the investigation of occupational accidents, dangerous              || occurrences and diseases, specifying such diseases and the forms of notices, 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;                         |                                                                                 |                                                                                     || (                                                                                             | zzk                                                                             | ) providing for the submission of statement of accidents, man-days lost,            || volume of cargo handled and particulars of dock workers; and                                  |                                                                                 |                                                                                     || (                                                                                             | zzl                                                                             | ) any other matter which is required to be or may be specified by regulation       || 25                                                                                            |                                                                                 |                                                                                     || prior                                                                                         |                                                                                 |                                                                                     || publication of                                                                                |                                                                                 |                                                                                     || rules, etc                                                                                   |                                                                                 |                                                                                     || 137                                                                                          | (                                                                               | 1                                                                                   || subject to the condition of the previous publication of the same being made, in the following |                                                                                 |                                                                                     || manner, namely:—                                                                              |                                                                                 |                                                                                     || 30                                                                                            |                                                                                 |                                                                                     || (                                                                                             | a                                                                               | ) the date to be specified after a draft of rule, regulation, and bye-laws proposed || to be made will be taken under consideration, shall not be less than forty-five days          |                                                                                 |                                                                                     || from the date on which the draft of the proposed rule, regulation and bye-laws is             |                                                                                 |                                                                                     || published for general information;                                                            |                                                                                 |                                                                                     || (                                                                                             | b                                                                               | ) rule, regulation and bye-laws shall be published in the official gazette and,     || on such publication, shall have effect as if enacted in this code                            |                                                                                 |                                                                                     || 35                                                                                            |                                                                                 |                                                                                     || power to                                                                                      |                                                                                 |                                                                                     || make                                                                                          |                                                                                 |                                                                                     || regulation                                                                                    |                                                                                 |                                                                                     || without                                                                                       |                                                                                 |                                                                                     || previous                                                                                      |                                                                                 |                                                                                     || publication                                                                                  |                                                                                 |                                                                                     || 138                                                                                          | notwithstanding anything contained in section 137, regulations under section136 |                                                                                     || may be made without previous publication and without reference to the national                |                                                                                 |                                                                                     || occupational safety health advisory board constituted under sub-section (                     | 1                                                                               | ) of                                                                                || section 16, if the central government is satisfied that for the prevention of apprehended     |                                                                                 |                                                                                     || danger or the speedy remedy of conditions likely to cause danger and to avoid delay it is     |                                                                                 |                                                                                     || necessary to dispense with from such publication and reference                               |                                                                                 |                                                                                     || bye-laws                                                                                     |                                                                                 |                                                                                     || 40                                                                                            |                                                                                 |                                                                                     || 139                                                                                          | (                                                                               | 1                                                                                   || inspector-cum-facilitator or inspector-cum-facilitator, frame and submit to the chief         |                                                                                 |                                                                                     || inspector-cum-facilitator or inspector-cum-facilitator a draft of such bye-laws, not being    |                                                                                 |                                                                                     || inconsistent with this code or any regulations or standards or rules for the time being in    |                                                                                 |                                                                                     || force, governing the use of any particular machinery or the adoption of a particular method   |                                                                                 |                                                                                     || of working in the mine, as the employer may deem necessary to prevent accidents and           |                                                                                 |                                                                                     || provide for the safety, convenience and discipline of the persons employed in the mine       |                                                                                 |                                                                                     || 45                                                                                            |                                                                                 |                                                                                     |(2) if any such employer—(a) fails to submit within two months a draft of bye-laws after being called uponto do so by the chief inspector-cum-facilitator or inspector-cum-facilitator, or5(b) submits a draft of bye-laws which is not in the opinion of the chief inspectorcum-facilitator or inspector-cum-facilitator sufficient, the chief inspector-cum- facilitator or inspector-cum-facilitator may—(i) propose a draft of such bye-laws as appear to him to be sufficient; or10(ii) propose such amendments in any draft submitted to him by theemployer as will, in his opinion, render it sufficient, and shall send such draft bye-laws or draft amendments to the employer for consideration15(3) if within a period of two months from the date on which any draft bye-laws or draft amendments are sent by the chief inspector-cum-facilitator or inspector-cum-facilitator to the employer under the provisions of sub-section (2), the chief inspector-cum-facilitator or inspector-cum-facilitator and the employer are unable to agree as to the terms of the bye-laws to be made under sub-section (1), the chief inspector-cum-facilitator or inspectorcum-facilitator shall refer the draft bye-laws for settlement to the technical committee constituted under sub-section (5) of section 16 in respect of mines20(4) when such draft bye-laws have been agreed to by the employer and the chief inspector-cum-facilitator or inspector-cum-facilitator, or, when they are unable to agree, have been settled by the technical committee constituted under sub-section (5) of section 16 in respect of mines, a copy of the draft bye-laws shall be sent by the chief inspector-cum-facilitator or inspector-cum-facilitator to the central government for approval:25provided that the central government may make such modification of the draft bye-laws as it thinks fit:30provided further that before the central government approves the draft bye-laws, whether with or without modifications, there shall be published, in such manner as the central government may think best adapted for informing the persons affected, a notice of the proposal to make the bye-laws and of the place where copies of the draft bye-laws may be obtained, and of the time (which shall not be less than thirty days) within which any objections with reference to the draft bye-laws, made by or on behalf of persons affected should be sent to the central government(5) every objection under second proviso to sub-section (4) shall be in writing and shall state—(i) the specific grounds of objections, and35(ii) the omissions, additions or modifications asked for40(6) the central government shall consider any objection made within the required time by or on behalf of persons appearing to it to be affected, and may approve the bye-laws either in the form in which they were published or after making such amendments thereto as it thinks fit45(7) the employer shall cause a copy of the bye-laws, in english and in such other language or languages as may be prescribed by the central government, to be pasted up in some conspicuous place at or near the mine, where the bye-laws may be conveniently read or seen by the persons employed; and, as and when the same become defaced, obliterated or destroyed, shall cause them to be pasted again(8) the central government may, by order in writing rescind, in whole or in part, any bye-law so made, and thereupon such bye-law shall cease to have effect accordinglypowers to regulate general safety and health140 notwithstanding any law for the time being in force in the country, the central government may make rules to regulate general safety and health of the persons residing in whole or part of india, in the event of declaration of an epidemic, pandemic or disaster, for such period as may be notified by the central government5laying of regulations, rules, byelaws, etc, before parliament1015141 every standard, rule, regulation and bye-laws notified or made by the central government under this code shall be laid, as soon as may be after it is notified or made, before each house of parliament, while it is in session, for a total period of thirty days which may be comprised in one session or in two or more successive sessions, and if, before the expiry of the session immediately following the session or the successive sessions aforesaid, both houses agree in making any modification in the standard, regulation, rule or bye-law or both houses agree that the standard, regulation, rule or bye-law should not be made, the standard, regulation, rule or bye-law shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be; so, however, that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that standard, regulation, rule or bye-law, as the case may be142 every rule made by the state government under this code shall be laid, as soon as may be, after it is made, before the state legislaturelaying of rules made by state government repeal and savings143 (1) the following enactments shall stand repealed on and from the dates the notification referred to in sub-section (2) of section 1 is issued, namely:—| (                                                | a   | ) the factories act, 1948;                                             ||--------------------------------------------------|-----|------------------------------------------------------------------------|| 63 of 1948                                      |     |                                                                        || 20                                               |     |                                                                        || 69 of 1951                                      |     |                                                                        || (                                                | b   | ) the plantations labour act, 1951;                                    || 35 of 1952                                      |     |                                                                        || (                                                | c   | ) the mines act, 1952;                                                 || 45 of 1955                                      |     |                                                                        || (                                                | d   | ) the working journalists and other newspaper employees (conditions of || service) and miscellaneous provisions act, 1955; |     |                                                                        || 29 of 1958                                      |     |                                                                        || 25                                               |     |                                                                        || (                                                | e   | ) the working journalists (fixation of rates of wages) act, 1958;      || 27 of 1961                                      |     |                                                                        || (                                                | f   | ) the motor transport workers act, 1961;                               || 32 of 1966                                      |     |                                                                        || (                                                | g   | ) the beedi and cigar workers (conditions of employment) act, 1966;    || 37 of 1970                                      |     |                                                                        |(h) the contract labour (regulation and abolition) act, 1970;11 of 1976(i) the sales promotion employees (conditions of service) act, 1976;3030 of 1979(j) the inter-state migrant workmen (regulation of employment and conditionsof service) act, 1979;50 of 1981(k) the cine-workers and cinema theatre workers (regulation of employment)act, 1981;54 of 1986(l) the dock workers (safety, health and welfare) act, 1986;3527 of 1996(m) the building and other construction workers (regulation of employmentand conditions of service) act, 1996(2) every chief inspector, additional chief inspector, joint chief inspector, deputy chief inspector, inspector and every other officer appointed for the purposes under any of the provisions of the enactments repealed by this code, shall be deemed to have been appointed under this code for such purposes under this code5(3) notwithstanding repeal under sub-section (1), anything done or any action takenunder the enactments so repealed (including any rule, regulation, bye-laws, notification, nomination, appointment, order or direction made thereunder) shall be deemed to have been done or taken under the corresponding provisions of this code and shall remain in force to the extent they are not contrary to the provisions of this code till they are repealed by the central government(4) without prejudice to the provisions of sub-section (2), provisions of section 6 of the general clauses act, 1897 shall apply to the repeal of such enactments10 of 1897 the first schedule [see section 2(za)] list of industries involving hazardous processes1 ferrous metallurgical industries- integrated iron and steel - ferro-alloys - special steels2 non-ferrous metallurgical industries- primary metallurgical industries, namely, zinc, lead, copper, manganese andaluminium 3 foundries (ferrous and non-ferrous)- castings and forgings including cleaning or smoothening/roughening by sand and shot blasting4 coal (including coke) industries- coal, lignite, coke and like other substances - fuel gases (including coal gas, producer gas, water gas)5 power generating industries 6 pulp and paper (including paper products) industries 7 fertiliser industries- nitrogenous - phosphatic - mixed8 cement industries- portland cement (including slag cement, puzzolona cement and their products)9 petroleum industries- oil refining - lubricating oils and greases10 petro-chemical industries 11 drugs and pharmaceutical industries- narcotics, drugs and pharmaceuticals12 fermentation industries (distilleries and breweries) 13 rubber (synthetic) industries 14 paints and pigment industries 15 leather tanning industries 16 electro-plating industries 17 chemical industries(a) coke oven by-products and coaltar distillation products; (b) industrial gases (nitrogen, oxygen, acetylene, argon, carbondioxide, hydrogen, sulphur dioxide, nitrous oxide, halogenated hydrocarbon, ozone, or any like gases);(c) industrial carbon;(d) alkalies and acids; (e) chromates and dichromates; ( f ) lead and its compounds;(g) electrochemicals (metallic sodium, potassium and magnesium, chlorates, perchlorates and peroxides);(h) electrothermal produces (artificial abrasive, calcium carbide); (i) nitrogenous compounds (cyanides, cyanamides and other nitrogenous compounds);( j) phosphorous and its compounds; (k) halogens and halogenated compounds (chlorine, fluorine, bromine and iodine);(l) explosives (including industrial explosives and detonators and fuses)18 insecticides, fungicides, herbicides and other pesticides industries 19 synthetic resin and plastics 20 man made  fibre (cellulosic and non-cellulosic) industry 21 manufacture and repair of electrical accumulators 22 glass and ceramics 23 grinding or glazing of metals 24 manufacture, handling and processing of asbestos and its products 25 extraction of oils and fats from vegetable and animal sources 26 manufacture, handling and use of benzene and substances containing benzene 27 manufacturing processes and operations involving carbon disulphide 28 dyes and dyestuff including their intermediates 29 highly flammable liquids and gases 30 printing and dyeing on fabrics in textiles and plywood and laminate manufacturingprocess31 process involving usage of radium or radioactive substances 32 stone crushing industry 33 extraction of oil and raw material from the scrap tyres 34 cigarette manufacturing industry 35 ship breaking industry 36 hazardous waste and e-waste processing plants 37 semiconductor manufacturing industry 38 styrene manufacturing, handling and processing industry 39 nano-particles utilising industry40 manufacturing, processing, preparation and utilisation of mercury or compounds of mercury, lead tetra-ethyl, manganese, arsenic, chrome, aliphatic series, beryllium, phosgene and isocyanates the second schedule[see section 18(2)(f)]list of matters: (1) fencing of machinery; (2)  work on or near machinery in motion; (3) employment of adolescents on dangerous machines; (4) striking gear and devices for cutting off power;(5) self acting machines; (6) casing of new machinery;(7) prohibition of employment of women, children and adolescent near cotton openers; (8) hoists and lifts; (9) lifting machines, chains, ropes and lifting tackles; (10) revolving machinery; (11) pressure plant; (12) floors, stairs and means of access; (13) pits, sumps, openings in floors and other similar indentation of area; (14) safety officers; (15) protection of eyes; (16) precautions against dangerous fumes, gases, etc; (17) precautions regarding the use of portable electric light; (18) explosive or inflammable dust, gas, and other like dusts or gases; (19) safety committee; (20) power to require specifications of defective parts or tests of stability; (21) safety of buildings and machinery; (22) maintenance of buildings; (23) prohibition in certain cases of danger; (24) notice in respect of accidents; (25) court of inquiry in case of accidents; (26) safety management in plantation; (27) the general requirement relating to the construction, equipments and maintenance for the safety of working places on shore, ship, dock, structure and other places at which any dock work is carried on;(28) the safety of any regular approaches over a dock, wharf, quay or other places which dock worker have to use for going for work and for fencing of such places and projects;(29) the efficient lighting of all areas of dock, ship, any other vessel, dock structure or working places where any dock work is carried on and of all approaches to such places to which dock workers are required to go in the course of their employment;(30) adequate ventilation and suitable temperature in every building or an enclosure on ship where dock workers are employed;(31) the fire and explosion preventions and protection; (32) safe means of access to ships, holds, stagings, equipment, appliances and other working places;(33) the construction, maintenance and use of lifting and other cargo handling appliances and services, such as, pallets containing or supporting loads and provision of safety appliances on them, if necessary;(34) the safety of workers employed in freight container terminals of other terminals for handing unitized cargo;(35) the fencing of machinery, live electrical conductors, steam pipes and hazardous openings;(36) the construction, maintenance and use of staging; (37) the rigging and use of ship's derricks; (38) the testing, examination, inspection and certification as appropriate of' loose gears including chains and ropes and of slings and other lifting devices used in the dock work;(39) the precautions to be taken to facilitate escape of workers when employed in a hold, bin, hopper or the like or between decks of a hold while handing coal of other bulk cargo;(40) the measures to be taken in order to prevent dangerous methods of' working in the stacking, unstacking, stowing and unstowing of cargo or handing in connection therewith;(41) the handling of dangerous substances and working, in dangerous or harmful environments and the precautions to be taken in connection with such handling;(42) the work in connection with cleaning, chipping, painting, operations and precautions to be taken in connection with such work;(43) the employment of persons for handling cargo, handling appliances, power operated batch covers or other power operated ship's equipment such as, door in the hull of a ship, ramp, retraceable car deck or similar equipment or to give signals to the drivers of such machinery;(44) the transport of dock workers; (45) the precautions to be taken to protect dock workers against harmful effects of excessive noise, vibration and air pollution at the work place;(46) protective equipment and protective clothing; (47) the sanitary, washing and welfare facilities; (48) the medical supervision; (49) the ambulance rooms, first aid and rescue facilities and arrangements for the removal of dock workers to the nearest place of treatment;(50) the investigation of occupational accidents, dangerous occurrences and diseases, specifying such diseases and the forms of' notices, 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;(51) the submission of statement of accidents, man-days lost, volume of cargo handled and particulars of dock workers(52) the safe means of access to, and the safety of, any working place, including the provision of suitable and sufficient scaffolding at various stages when work cannot be safely done from the ground or from any part of a building or from a ladder or such other means of support;(53) the precautions to be taken in connection with the demolition of the whole or any substantial part of a building or other structure under the supervision of a competent person for the avoidance of danger from collapse of any building or other structure while removing any part of the framed building or other structure by shoring or otherwise;(54) the handling or use of explosive under the control of competent persons so that there is no exposure to the risk of injury from explosion or from flying material;(55) the erection installation, use and maintenance of transporting equipment, such as locomotives, trucks, wagons and other vehicles and trailers and appointment of competent persons to drive or operate such equipment;(56) the erection, installation, use and maintenance of hoists, lifting appliances and lifting gear including periodical testing and examination and heat treatment where necessary, precautions to be taken while raising or lowering loads, restrictions on carriage of persons and appointment of competent persons on hoists or other lifting appliances;(57) the adequate and suitable lighting of every workplace and approach thereto, of every place where raising or lowering operations with the use of hoists, lifting appliances or lifting gears are in progress and of all openings dangerous to building workers employed;(58) the precautions to be taken to prevent inhalation of dust, fumes, gases or vapours during any grinding, cleaning, spraying or manipulation of any material and steps to be taken to secure and maintain adequate ventilation of every working place or confined space;(59) the measures to be taken during stacking or unstacking, stowing or unstowing of materials or goods or handling in connection therewith;(60) the safeguarding of machinery including the fencing of every fly-wheel and every moving part of prime mover and every part of transmission or other machinery, unless it is in such a position or of such construction as to be safe to every worker working only of the operations and as if it were securely fenced;(61) the safe handling and use of plant, including tools and equipment operated by compressed air;(62) the precaution to be taken in case of fire; (63) the limits of weight to be lifted or moved by workers; (64) the safe transport of workers to or from any workplace by water and provision of means for rescue from drowning;(65) the steps to be taken to prevent danger to workers from live electric wires or apparatus including electrical machinery and tools and from overhead wires;(66) the keeping of safety nets, safety sheets and safety belts where the special nature or the circumstances of work render them necessary for the safety of the workers;(67) the standards to be complied with regard to scaffolding, ladders and stairs, lifting appliances, ropes, chains and accessories, earth moving equipment and floating operational equipments;(68) the precautions to be taken with regard to pile driving, concrete work, work with hot asphalt, tar or other similar things, insulation work, demolition operations, excavation, underground construction and handling materials;(69) the safety policy, that is to say, a policy relating to steps to be taken to ensure the safety and health of the building workers, the administrative arrangements therefor and the matters connected therewith, to be framed by the employers and contractors for tile operations to be carried on in a building or other construction work;(70) emergency standards for enforcement of suitable standards in respect of  hazardous processes in a factory;(71) the maximum permissible threshold limits of exposure of chemical and toxic substances in manufacturing processes (whether hazardous or otherwise) in any factory;(72) lightning; and (73) any other matter which the central government considers under the circumstance for better working condition for safety at the workplace the third schedule [see section 12(1)] list of notifiable diseases1 lead poisoning, including poisoning by any preparation or compound of lead or their sequelae2 lead-tetra-ethyle poisoning 3 phosphorus poisoning or its sequelae 4 mercury poisoning or its sequelae 5 manganese poisoning or its sequelae 6 arsenic poisoning or its sequelae 7 poisoning by nitrous fumes 8 carbon bisulphide poisoning9 benzene poisoning, including poisoning by any of its homologues, their nitro or amido derivatives or its sequelae10 chrome ulceration or its sequelae 11 anthrax 12 silicosis13 poisoning by halogens or halogen derivatives of the hydrocarbons of the aliphatic series14 pathological manifestations due to—(a) radium or other radio-active substances; (b) x-rays15 primary epitheliomatous cancer of the skin 16 toxic anaemia 17 toxic jaundice due to poisonous substances18 oil acne or dermatitis due to mineral oils and compounds containing mineral oil base19 byssionosis 20 asbestosis21 occupational or contact dermatitis caused by direct contract with chemicals and paints these are of two types, that is, primary irritants and allergic sensitizers22 noise induced hearing loss (exposure to high noise levels) 23 beriyllium poisoning 24 carbon monoxide poisoning 25 coal miners' pneumoconiosis 26 phosgene poisoning 27 occupational cancer 28 isocyanates poisoning 29 toxic nephritis statement of objects and reasonsthe second national commission on labour, which submitted its report in june, 2002, had recommended that the existing set of labour laws should be broadly amalgamated into the following groups, namely:--(a) industrial relations; (b) wages; (c) social security; (d) safety; and (e) welfare and working conditions2 in pursuance of the recommendations of the said commission and the deliberations made in the tripartite meeting comprising of the government, employers' and industry representatives, it has been decided to bring the occupational safety, health and working conditions code, 2020  the proposed legislation intends to amalgamate, simplify and rationalise the relevant provisions of the following thirteen central labour enactments relating to occupation, safety, health and working conditions of workers, namely:—1 the factories act, 1948; 2 the plantations labour act, 1951; 3 the mines act, 1952; 4 the working journalists and other newspaper employees (conditions ofservice and miscellaneous provisions) act, 1955;5 the working journalists (fixation of rates of wages) act, 1958; 6 the motor transport workers act, 1961; 7 the beedi and cigar workers (conditions of employment) act, 1966; 8 the contract labour (regulation and abolition) act, 1970; 9 the sales promotion employees (condition of service) act, 1976; 10 the inter-state migrant workmen (regulation of employment and conditionsof service) act, 1979;11 the cine workers and cinema theatre workers act, 1981; 12 the dock workers (safety, health and welfare) act, 1986; and 13 the building and other construction workers (regulation of employmentand conditions of service) act, 19963  in the light of above, the occupational safety, health and working conditions code, 2019 was introduced in lok sabha on the 23rd day of july, 2019 and the same was referred to the department related parliamentary standing committee on labour  the said committee recommended several substantive modifications to the said code in addition to the said modifications, the government of india has also proposed certain changes to the said code in the light of covid-19 pandemic in view of this, the government of india has decided to withdraw pending the occupational safety, health and working conditions code, 2019 and to introduce the occupational safety, health and working conditions code, 2020 the proposed code simplifies, amalgamates and rationalises the provisions of the aforesaid thirteen enactments with certain important changes which, inter alia, are as under:—(i) to impart flexibility in adapting technological changes and dynamic factors, inthe matters relating to health, safety, welfare and working conditions of workers;(ii) to apply the provisions of the proposed code for all establishments havingten or more workers, other than the establishments relating to mines and docks;(iii) to provide the concept of "one registration" for all establishments having ten or more employees  however, for the applicability of all other provisions of the code in respect of factories, except registration, the threshold has been fixed twenty workers in a factory (with power) and forty workers (without power);(iv) to include the journalist working in electronic media such as in e-paper establishment or in radio or in other media in the definition of "working journalists";(v) to provide for issuing of appointment letter mandatorily by the employer of an establishment to promote formalisation in employment;(vi) to provide free of cost annual health check-ups for employees above the specified age in all or certain class of establishments by which it would be possible to detect diseases at an early stage for effective and proper treatment of the employees;(vii) to make the provisions relating to inter-state migrant workers applicable on the establishment in which ten or more migrant workers are employed or were employed on any day of the preceding twelve months and also provide that a inter- state migrant may register himself asan inter-state migrant worker on the portal on the basis of self-declaration and aadhaar;(viii) an inter-state migrant worker has been provided with the portability to avail benefits in the destination state in respect of ration and availing benefits of building and other construction worker cess;(ix) to constitute the national occupational safety and health advisory board to give recommendations to the central government on policy matters, relating to occupational safety, health and working conditions of workers;(x) to constitute the state occupational safety and health advisory board at the state level to advice the state government on such matters arising out of the administration of the proposed code;(xi) to make a provision for the constitution of safety committee by the appropriate government in any establishment or class of establishments;(xii) to employ women in all establishments for all types of work  they can also work at night, that is, beyond 7 pm and before 6 am subject to the conditions relating to safety, holiday, working hours and their consent;(xiii) to make provision of "common license" for factory, contract labour and beedi and cigar establishments and to introduce the concept of a single all india license for a period of five years to engage the contract labour;(xiv) to enable the courts to give a portion of monetary penalties up to fifty per cent to the worker who is a victim of accident or to the legal heirs of such victim in the case of his death;(xv) to provide overriding powers to the central government to regulate general safety and health of persons residing in whole or part of india in the event of declaration of epidemic or pandemic or disaster;(xvi) to make provision for social security fund for the welfare of unorganised workers; and(xvii) to make provision for adjudging the penalties imposed under the code4 the notes on clause explain in detail the various provisions contained in the code5  the code seeks to achieve the aforesaid objectivessantosh kumar gangwar president's recommendation under article 117 of the constitution of india————[letter no z-13025/12/2015-lrc, dated 1692020 from shri santosh kumar gangwar, minister of state for labour and employment (independent charge) to the secretary general, lok sabha]the president, having been informed of the subject matter of the proposed occupational safety, health and working conditions code, 2020, recommends to the house the introduction of the bill in the house under article 117(1) and the consideration of the bill under article 117(3) of the constitution———— notes on clausesclause 1—this clause relates to short title, extent and commencement of the proposed codeclause 2—this clause seeks to define certain expressions used in the proposed codeclause 3—this clause relates to the registration of establishments and specifies the procedure for such registrationclause 4—this clause contains the provisions of appeal against the order of the registering officer under clause 3clause 5—this clause deals with notice by employer relating to the factory, mine, contract labour or building or other construction work before the commencement of the operation of any industry, trade, business, manufacture or occupation in the concern establishment and shall also intimate the cessation thereofclause 6—this clause deals with the duties of employer in respect of workplace, occupational safety and health standards, health examination, appointment letter etcclause 7—this clause deals with the duties and responsibilities of owner, agent and manager in relation to mine the responsibilities of the owner and agent are joint and severalclause 8—this clause deals with the duties of manufacturers, designers, importers or suppliers of any article for use in any establishment, to avoid risk and to ensure safetyclause 9—this clause deals with the duties of architects, project engineers and designers in respect of building or other construction work, project or part thereof relating to building or other construction work, for the purposes of safety and health aspectsclause 10—this clause deals with notice of certain accidents at any place in an establishment by the employer or owner or agent or manager in respect of mines, employer or manager in respect of factory or dock work, employer in respect of plantation, building or other construction work or other establishment, to the concerned authorities and the inquiry by the concerned authority or if there is no such authority, by the inspector-cum-facilitator on the direction of the chief inspector-cum-facilitatorclause 11—this clause deals with notice of certain dangerous occurrences by the employer to the authorities determined by the appropriate government by rulesclause 12—this clause deals with notice of certain diseases specified in the third schedule to the proposed code by the employer to the authorities determined by the appropriate government by rules and the report to be sent by the medical practitioner to the chief inspector-cum-facilitator, if he believes that the person attended by him has been suffering by such diseaseclause 13—this clause deals with duties of the employees at workplace in respect of health and safety, co-operation with the employer, interference with, misuse or neglect of any appliance, convenience or other thing provided for work and avoiding anything likely to endanger workers and othersclause 14—this clause deals with rights of employee to obtain from the employer information relating to employee's health and safety at work,to represent employer directly or through a member of the safety committee, to give information regarding the imminent danger, etc, to the employer it also contains the provisions regarding immediate remedial action to be taken by the employer, etcclause 15—this clause deals with duty not to interfere with or misuse things which is provided in the interest of health, safety or welfareclause 16—this clause contains provisions relating to the constitution of national occupational safety and health advisory board and the constitution of technical committees or advisory committeesclause 17—this clause contain provisions relating to the constitution of state occupational safety and health advisory board and the technical committees are advisory committees thereofclause 18—this clause empower the central government to declare standards on occupational safety and health for work places relating to factories, mines, dock work, building and other construction work and other establishments and other details relating theretoclause 19—this clause seeks to notify the research related activities in certain institutions in the field of occupational safety and health to conduct research, experiments and demonstrations relating to occupational safety and health and thereafter to submit their recommendation to the appropriate government it also provides the consultation by the state government with national boardclause 20—this clause relates to safety and occupational health surveys by the chief inspector-cum-facilitator, the director general of factory advice service, director general of mines safety, director general of health service and other officers authorised by the appropriate government after giving notice to the employer and other matters relating theretoclause 21—this clause relates to collection of statistics and portal for inter-state migrant workers the responsibility regarding maintaining the data base or record, for inter- state migrant worker on portal is entrusted on the central and state governments as per provisions of  clauseclause 22—this clause provides the provisions relating to constitution of safety committee in the establishment or class of establishment and the responsibility of the employer to appoint safety officersclause 23—this clause relating to responsibility of employer for maintaining health and working conditions in his establishments and the central government may also make rules for such purposeclause 24—this clause relating to impose responsibility on the employer to provide and maintain the welfare facilities in his establishment in accordance with the rules made by the central government which includes the rules relating to ambulance room, medical facilities, shelter or rest room and the appointment of welfare officer, temporary leaving accommodation, free of charge and within the work site or as near to it or as possible, payment by principal employer the expenses incurred on providing the accommodation through the contractor, facility of crècheclause 25—this clause relating to daily and weekly working hours, leave, etc, to the workers, including overtime work to be performed by worker it also provides additional provisions relating to holidays, casual leave or other kinds of leave in respect of sales promotion employee and the working journalist, and the regulation of working hours of an adolescent worker in accordance with child and adolescent labour (prohibition and regulation) act, 1986 (61 of 1986) the working hours in a day are eight hoursclause 26—this  clause relating to weekly and compensatory holidays to the workersthe appropriate government has powered to exempt the workers from the provision under this clauseclause 27—this clause provides for extra wages for overtime which shall be wages at the rate of twice the ordinary rate of wages in respect of overtime work as provided in the clause and no worker shall be required to work overtime by the employer without the prior consent of the worker for such workclause 28—this clause provide certain provisions relating to night shifts where a worker in an establishment works on a shift which extends beyond midnight relating to the calculation of holiday and the following day for the workerclause 29—this clause relates to prohibition of overlapping shifts which relates to the arrangement of the system of shifts and to exempt any establishment or class of establishments or any department or section of an establishment or any category or description of workers therein from the provisions contained in the clauseclause 30—this clause relates to restriction on double employment in factory and mine where the worker has already been working in any other such similar establishment within the preceding twelve hours, save in such circumstances as may be provided by the appropriate government by rulesclause 31—this clause relates to notice of periods of work and such notice shall contain periods of work, showing clearly for every day the periods during which workers may be required to work in accordance with the provisions of the proposed code it also provides regarding form of notice, the manner of its display and to send it to the inspectorcum-facilitator and regarding change in the notice where there is change in system of workclause 32—this clause contains provision relating to annual leave with wages in an establishment subject to the provisions specified in the clause it also contains regarding the extension of the provisions to any other establishment except railway establishment such provision shall not operate to the prejudice of any right to which a person employed in a mine may be entitled as specified in the clauseclause 33—this clause relates to maintenance of registers and records and filing of returns by the employer electronically or otherwise in accordance with the rules made by the appropriate governmentclause 34—this clause contains the provisions relating to appointment of inspectorcum-facilitators and chief inspector-cum-facilitator the qualifications and experience of the chief inspector-cum-facilitator shall be determined by rules the duties of the inspectorcum-facilitator and the powers of the chief inspector-cum-facilitator have been specified in the clause the clause also provide the appointment of additional chief inspector-cum- facilitators, joint chief inspector-cum-facilitators and deputy chief inspector-cum- facilitators or any other officer of any designation and their powers and other matters relating theretoclause 35—this clause relates to powers of inspector-cum-facilitators which includes power to enter to work place, examine the premises etc, and inquire into any accident or dangerous occurrence, etc, with necessary details in this regardclause 36—this clause relates to powers and duties of district magistrate to exercise powers and duties of the inspector-cum-facilitator in respect of minesclause 37—this clause provides for third party audit and certification by the empanel experts possessing the qualifications and experience as determined by the rules made by the appropriate government, for the purpose of start-up establishments and class of other establishments in apropos with the provisions as specified in the clauseclause 38—this clause relates to special powers of inspector-cum-facilitator in respect of factory, mines and dock work and building and other construction work the special powers of the inspector-cum-facilitator have been specified in respect of factory, mine, dock work and building or other construction work in this clause there is also provision of appeal provided in this clause against the order of the inspector-cum-facilitator, which he may pass relating to the building or other construction work, if such work is being carried on, is in such condition that it is dangerous to life, safety or health of building workers or the general publicclause 39—this clause relates to secrecy of information by chief inspector-cum-facilitator or inspector-cum-facilitator, etc such information relating to establishment shall be disclosed by the chief inspector-cum-facilitator or inspector-cum-facilitator, in case it is necessary to ensure the health, safety or welfare of any person employed in establishment there are certain exceptions provided in the clause to which the provision of secrecy shall not apply the right of the chief inspector-cum-facilitator or inspector-cum-facilitator not to disclose the source of any complaint is not constrained by the provision of the right to information act, 2005 (22 of 2005)clause 40—this clause contain the provisions relating to facilities to be afforded to the inspector-cum-facilitator such facilities shall be provided to the inspector-cum-facilitator by the employer of the establishment, which relate to the reasonable facilities for making any entry, inspection, survey, measurement, examination or inquiry under the provisions of the proposed codeclause 41—this clause relates to the powers of special officer to enter, measure, etc, in relation to mine such officer is required to be in the service of the government duly authorised in this behalf by a special order in writing of the chief inspector-cum-facilitator or of an inspector-cum-facilitator for the purpose of surveying, levelling or measuring any mine or any output therefromclause 42—this clause relates to the appointment of medical officer by the appropriate government and have the qualification specified in the rules such medical officer shall be appointed in relation to factory, mines, plantation, motor transport undertakings and any other establishment the duties of the medical officer have been also specified in the clauseclause 43—this clause relates to employment of women the employment of women worker shall be made by the employer in all kinds of occupation subject to the conditions relating inter alia  to safety, holidays and working hours as specified in the rules and with the consent of such women before 6 am and beyond 7 pmclause 44—this clause relates to prohibition of employment of women in dangerous operation  such dangerous operations relate to the health and safety of the women worker in an establishment or class of establishments this clause requires for providing adequate safeguards in accordance with the rules made by appropriate governmentclause 45—this clause provide the details for the applicability of part i of chapter xiof the proposed codeclause 46—this clause relates to appointment of authority officers who shall be gazetted officer of the appropriate governmentclause 47—this clause contains of the provisions relating to licensing of contractorsfor supplying or engaging contract labour in any establishment or undertaking or executing the work through contract labour, it is essential to obtain the licence the provision of the clause also specifies the content of the licenceclause 48—this clause contains the provisions relating to procedure for issue and renewal of the licence it provides that the form of the application for issuing licence and the manner and other particulars, thereof shall be as provided under the rules made by the appropriate government it also provides other details of procedure regarding the issuing of licence and the period of validity of a license for five yearsclause 49—this clause provides that the contractor shall not charge directly or indirectly, in whole or in part, any fee or commission from the contract labourclause 50—this clause provides the provisions relating to the information regarding work order to be given to the authority the contractor shall inform about the work order receive from the establishment to the authority in accordance with the procedure as specified in the clause and in case of failure the licence may be suspended or cancelled in accordance with rules made by the appropriate governmentclause 51—this clause relates to revocation, suspension and amendment of licenceit contains the circumstances such as the misrepresentation or suppression of any material fact in obtaining the licence as ground for revocation or suspension of licence and the procedure for revocation and suspension of the licence and the amendment thereof such revocation and suspension shall be in addition to the other penalty to which the contractor may be liableclause 52—this clause provides the provisions relating to the appeal which shall be made by the aggrieved person against the order made in respect of licensing of contractor, issue of licence and revocation, suspension and amendment of licenceclause 53—this clause relates to liability of principal employer for welfare facilities relating to providing of canteens, rest rooms, drinking water and first aidclause 54—this clause relates to effect of employing contract labour from a nonlicenced contractor in case of employment of contract labour through such contractor shall be deemed to be contravention of the provisions of the courtclause 55—this clause deals with the responsibility for payment of wages the primary responsibility for payment of wages to the contract labour shall be of the contractor before the expiry of such period specified in rules made by the appropriate government the electronic payment has been introduced by this clause in case the contractor fails to make payment of the wages to the contract labour then the responsibility shifts to the principal employer as specified in the clause the appropriate government is also empowered to make order for making payment under the provisions of the clauseclause 56—this clause relates to experience certificate to be given by the concerned contractor of the establishment concerned to the contract labour as and when demanded giving details therein of the work performed by the contract labourclause 57—this clause prohibit the employment of contract labour in core activities with certain exceptions it also provides the appointment of designated authority to advise the appropriate government on the question whether any activity of an establishment is a core activity or otherwise it also contains the provision for deciding the question regarding the core activityclause 58—this clause deals with power to exempt in special cases such exemption relating to provisions of the proposed code or the rules made thereunder shall be made by the appropriate government, in the case of an emergency as specified in the clauseclause 59—this clause relates to applicability of part i clause 60—this clause relates to facilities to inter-state migrant workers such facilities shall be provided by the contractor or employer of an establishment employing inter- state migrant worker for the purposes as specified in the clauseclause 61—this clause provides the provisions relating to journey allowance such allowance shall be paid by the employer to the inter-state migrant worker in a year as lump sum amount of fare for to and fro journey to his native place from the place of his employment as specified in the classclause 62—this clause relating to the benefits of public distribution system, etc, to the inter-state migrant workers through schemes as specified for the classclause 63—this clause provides the facility of toll free helpline to the inter-state migrant workers as specified in the classclause 64—this clause relates to study of inter-state migrant workers in the manner as specified for the classclause 65—this clause relates to past liability of inter-state migrant workers no suit or other proceeding shall lie in any court or before any authority against the inter-state migrant workers for the recovery of debt or any part thereof as specified in the classclause 66—this clause provides the provisions relating to prohibition of employment of audio-visual worker without agreement such agreement shall be in writing and between the audio-visual worker and the producer of audio-visual programme or between producers of the audio-visual programme with the contractor and shall be registered with the competent authority in case of the benefit of provident fund a copy of such agreement shall be forwarded by the producer of the audio-visual programme to the authority and the payment of wages to the audio-visual worker shall be through electronic modeclause 67—this clause deals with the managers in mine subject to the rules made in this behalf, every mine shall be under the sole manager the qualifications of the manager shall be such as provided in the rules made under the code the appointment of the manager shall be made by the owner or the agent the qualified owner or agent may also be appointed as manager the clause also provides regarding the responsibility of a managerclause 68—this clause relates to non-applicability of the certain provision of the code in certain cases such as excavation in mine being made for prospecting purposes only and not for the purpose of obtaining minerals for use or sale subject to the conditions specified in the clause and in case the mine engaged in the extraction of kankar, murrum, laterite, boulder, gravel, shingle, ordinary sand etc, as specified in the clause however, regarding applicability of the provisions of the code to a mine, the central government has powers as specified in this clause and in case of non-fulfilment of certain conditions; the provisions of the code shall apply to a mine as specified in the clauseclause 69—this clause provides the provisions relating to exemption from this code relating to employment as specified therein such exemptions are in case of emergency involving serious risk to the safety of the mine or of persons employed therein, or in case of an accident, whether actual or apprehended, or in case of any act of god or in case of any urgent work to be done to machinery, plant or equipment of the mine as a result of breakdown of such machinery plant or equipment in such cases the manager is empowered as specified in the clause to permit persons to be employed in contravention of certain provisions of the code on the work as may be necessary to protect the safety of the mine or of the persons employed therein the manager may also take action, in case of any urgent work to be done to machinery, plant or equipment as specified in the clause and such action shall be recorded with the circumstances relating thereto and a report thereof shall also be made to the chief inspector-cum-facilitator or the inspector-cum-facilitatorclause 70—this clause relates to employment of persons below eighteen years of age it provides that no person below eighteen years of age shall be allowed to work in any mine or part thereof but in case of apprentices and other trainees, such age limit is not below sixteen years as provided in the clausethe rules shall be made by the central government for medical examination of apprentice, other trainee and employee in the mine to ensure their fitness to work and to prevent the persons below sixteen years of age to work as apprentice or trainee and those who are not adults to work as the employeeclause 71—this clause provides the provisions relating to exemption clause 72—this clause relates to vocational training and rescue and recovery services for person employed in a mineclause 73—this clause provides the provisions relating to decision of question whether any excavation or working or premises in or adjacent to and belonging to a mine on which any process ancillary to the getting, dressing or preparation for sale of minerals or of coke is being carried on is a mine and such question shall be decided by the government of india and a certificate given by the secretary to the government of india in this behalf shall be conclusiveclause 74—this clause deals with licence to industrial premises and person without licence no employer shall use or allow to use any place or premises the licence shall be granted by the designated authority after complying with the procedure specified in the clause and the licence granted shall be valid for five years and shall be renewed thereafter in accordance with the procedure specified in the clauseclause 75—this clause provides the provisions relating to appeals a person aggrieved by the decision of the designated authority refusing to grant or renew a licence or cancelling or suspending a licence may, within the prescribed time and with prescribed fee, appeal to the appellate authorityclause 76—this clause relates to permission to work by employees outside industrial premises such permission shall be granted by the state government and the employer shall maintain the record of the work permitted to be carried on outside the industrial premises the raw material by an employer or a contractor may be given to the labour outside the industrial area to make beedi or cigar or both at homeclause 77—this clause provides the provisions relating to non-applicability of part vto self-employed persons in private dwelling houses the provisions of the said part shall not apply to the owner or occupier of a private dwelling house, not being an employee of an employer, who carries on any manufacturing process in such private dwelling house with the assistance of the members of his family living with him in such dwelling house and dependent on himclause 78—this clause relates to prohibition of employment of certain persons in certain building or other construction work the employer shall not allow the person who is deaf, of defective vision or has a tendency to giddiness to work in any operation of building or other construction work as specified in the clauseclause 79—this clause provides the provisions relating to approval and licensing of factories the permission and licensing shall be made in accordance with the rules framed by the appropriate government clause 80—this clause relates to liability of owner of premises in certain circumstancesthe owner of the premises and occupier of the factories utilising common facilities shall jointly and severally be responsible for provision and maintenance of the common facilities and services as specified in the clauseclause 81—this clause deals with power to apply the code in certain premises the provision of part vii of chapter xi of the proposed code shall apply to any place wherein manufacturing process is carried on with or without the aid of power irrespective of the number of workers working in the factory by the appropriate government by notificationclause 82—this clause relates to dangerous operations in this respect, the appropriate government may make the rule relating to any factory or class or description of factories in which manufacturing process is carried on in which exposes any of the persons employed in it to a serious risk of bodily injury, poisoning or disease as specified in the clauseclause 83—this clause provides the provisions relating to constitution of site appraisal committee the site appraisal committee constituted under this clause shall make its recommendation within a period of thirty days of the receipt of the application for grant of permission for the initial location of a factory involving a hazardous process or for the expansion of such factoryclause 84—this clause relates to compulsory disclosure of information by the occupierthe disclosure shall be in the manner provided by the state government in the rules and as specified in the clauseclause 85—this clause provides the provisions relating to specific responsibility of the occupier in relation to hazardous process such responsibility of the occupier of a factory involving hazardous process relates inter alia to maintaining accurate and up-to-date health recordsclause 86—this clause provides the provisions relating to constitution of national board to inquire into certain situations as specified in the clause in such situation the central government may direct the national board to inquire into the standards of health and safety observed in the factory with a view to finding out the causes of the failure or neglect in the adoption of any measures or standards as per rules made by the state government for the health and safety of the workers employed in the factory or the general public affected, or likely to be affected, due to the failure or neglect and for the prevention and recurrence of the extraordinary situations in future in the factory or elsewhereclause 87—this clause relates to emergency standards the central government may direct the directorate general occupational safety and health formerly known as directorate general of factory advice service and labour institutes or any institution authorised in matters relating to standards of safety in hazardous processes, to lay down emergency standards for enforcement of suitable standards in respect of the hazardous processesclause 88—this clause provides the provisions relating to permissible limits of exposure of chemicals and toxic substances the maximum permissible limits in any factory shall be of the value as may be provided in the rules made by the state governmentclause 89—this clause relates to right of workers to warn about imminent danger in the case of reasonable apprehension of imminent danger as specified in the clause the workers may bring the same in the notice of the occupier, agent, manager, or any other person who is in-charge of the factory or the person concerned directly or through their representatives in the safety committee and simultaneously bring the same to the notice of the inspector-cum-facilitator the clause also provides regarding the action to be taken on such noticeclause 90—this clause provides the provisions relating to appeal against the order of inspector-cum-facilitator in case of factory the details regarding appeal shall be provided by the appropriate government in the rulesclause 91—this clause deals with the power to make rules to exemptas specified in the clause the rules made by the appropriate government shall specify the persons who hold positions of supervision or management or employed in a confidential position in a factory such rules may empower the chief inspector-cum-facilitator to declare any person, other than a person so specified, as a person holding position of supervision or management or employed in a confidential position in a factory if, in the opinion of the chief inspector-cum-facilitator, such person holds such position or is so employed, and the provisions of the proposed code, shall not apply to any person so specified or declared the other details regarding the rules and exemptions are specified in the clauseclause 92—this clause relates to facilities for the workers in plantation clause 93—this clause deals with the safety in plantation clause 94—this clause relates to general penalty for offences such offences are those offences which are not expressly provided under the other provisions of the proposed codeclause 95—this clause provides the provision relating to punishment for causing obstruction to chief inspector-cum-facilitator or inspector-cum-facilitator, etcclause 96—this clause provides the provisions relating to penalty for nonmaintenance of register, records and non-filing of returns, etcclause 97—this clause provides the provisions relating to punishment for contravention of provisions of the proposed code or any rules, regulation, or bye-laws, etc it also provides enhanced punishment in case of repetition of such offences after convictionclause 98—this clause provides the provisions relating to punishment for falsification of records, etcclause 99—this clause provides the provisions relating to penalty for omission to furnish plans, etc, without reasonable excuse, the burden of proof of which lies on the person making the omissionclause 100—thisc clause provides the provisions relating to punishment for disclosure of information the details regarding the information have been specified in the clauseclause 101—this clause provides the provisions relating to punishment for wrongfully disclosing results of analysis the details of the disclosure have been specified in the clauseclause 102—this clause provides the provisions relating to punishment for contravention of the provisions of duties relating to hazardous processes as specified in the clauseclause 103—this clause provides the provisions relating to punishment for contravention of the provisions of duties relating to safety provisions resulting in an accidentclause 104—this clause provides the provisions relating to punishment for working in contravention of any general or special order issued under the provisions of clause 38clause 105—this clause provides the provisions relating to punishment for failure to appoint manager in contravention of the provision of the clause 67clause 106—this clause deals with offences by employees clause 107—this clause provide the provisions relating to prosecution of owner, agent or manager of a mine as specified in the clauseclause 108—this clause provides the provisions relating to exemption of owner, agent or manager of a mine or occupier of a factory from liability in certain cases such cases are that the owner, agent or manager or occupier proves to the satisfaction of the court that he has exercised due diligence to enforce execution of the proposed court code or that the other person committed the offence in question without his knowledge, consent or connivanceclause 109—this clause deals with offences by companies, etc, under the circumstances specified in the clause every person who, at the time the offence was committed, was in charge of, and was responsible to, the company for the conduct of the business of the company, as well as the company, shall be deemed to be guilty of the offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordinglyclause 110—this clause provides the provisions relating to limitation of prosecution and cognizance of offence under the proposed codeclause 111—this clause deals with power of officers of appropriate government to impose penalty in certain cases such cases are offences under the proposed code in which only penalty is providedclause 112—this clause provides the provisions relating to jurisdiction of a court for entertaining proceedings, etc, for offence the court within the local limits of which the establishment is situated shall have the jurisdictionclause 113—this clause deals with power of the court to make order such order shall be in addition to the awarding punishment, requiring the offender within a period specified in the order (which may be extended by the court from time to time on application made in this behalf) to take such measures as may be specified in the order for remedying the matters in respect of which the offence was committedclause 114—this clause contains the provisions relating to compounding of offencesunder the provision the compoundable offences are specifiedclause 115—this clause relates to social security fund the fund shall be established by the appropriate government for the welfare of unorganized workers the other details have been specified in the clauseclause 116—this clause deals with delegation of powers in the delegation the conditions, subject to which the delegation would be made, may be specifiedclause 117—this clause contains the provisions relating to onus as to age it relates to the offences committed under the proposed code involving an issue of the age of the person the burden of onus is on the accused to prove that such person is not under such ageclause 118—this clause contains the provisions relating to onus of proving limits of what is practicable, etc this relates to the failure to comply with the duty to do something, it shall be for the person who is alleged to have failed to comply with the duty or requirement, to prove that it was not reasonably practicable or all practicable measures were taken to satisfy the duty or requirementclause 119—this clause relates to common licence for contractor, factories and to industrial premises of beedi and cigar work, etcclause 120—this clause provides the provision relating to effect of law and agreements inconsistent with the proposed code the provisions of this code shall have effect notwithstanding anything inconsistent therewith contained in any other law for the time being in force or in the terms of any award, agreement or contract of service whether made before or after the commencement of this code the clause also saves the more favourable benefit of the employee the guideline for interpretation is also provided in the clauseclause 121—this clause deals with power of the appropriate government to direct inquiry in certain cases such cases relate to event of the occurrence of an accident in an establishment which has caused or had the potentiality to cause serious danger to employees and other persons within, and in the vicinity of the workplace or whether immediate or delayed, or any occupational disease as specified in the third scheduleclause 122—this clause relates to publication of reports such reports are the reports, submitted to the appropriate government by the national board or state advisory board or any extracts from any report submitted to it under the proposed codeclause 123—this clause deals with powers of central government to give directions to state government for the implementation of the provisions of the proposed codeclause 124—this clause contains the provisions relating to general restriction on disclosure of informationclause 125—this clause contains the provisions relating to barring of the jurisdiction of civil courts in respect of the matters to which any provision of the proposed code applies and no injunction shall be granted by any civil court in respect of anything which is done or intended to be done by or under the proposed codeclause 126—this clause relates to protection of a person from legal proceeding if action is taken in good faith in pursuance of the proposed codeclause 127—this clause deals with power to exempt in special cases as specified in the clauseclause 128—this clause deals with power to exempt during public emergency as specified in the clauseclause 129—this clause deals with power to exempt public institution they are such institution, workshop or workplace where a mansufacturing process is carried on and which are attached to a public institution maintained for the purposes of education, training, research or information, from all or any of the provisions of the proposed code the cases in which exemption shall not be granted are specified in the clauseclause 130—this clause provide the provisions relating to a persons who is required to givenotice, etc, to any authority in respect of the provisions of the proposed code shall be legally bound to do so within the meaning of section 176 of the indian penal code, 1860clause 131—this clause deals with power of central government to amend the schedule by way of addition, alteration or omission thereinclause 132—this clause deals with power of central government to remove difficulties by the order published in the official gazette such order shall not be made after the expiry of two years from the date on which the proposed code comes into forceclause 133—this clause deals with power of appropriate government to make rules subject to the condition of previous publication and by notification, for carrying out the purposes of the proposed codeclause 134—this clause deals with power of the central government to make rules subject to condition of previous publication and by notification, for carrying out the purposes of the proposed codeclause 135—this clause deals with power of the state government to make rules subject to condition of previous publication and by notification, for carrying out the provisions of the proposed code sub-clause (3) of the said clause provides that the central government may, by notification and in consultation with the state government, make rules for the purposes of bringing uniformity, throughout the country, in occupational safety, health or such other matters as it considers necessary in respect of factoriesclause 136—this clause deals with power of central government to make regulations in relation to mines and dock work by notification in the official gazette which shall be consistent with the proposed codeclause 137—this clause relates to prior publication of rules, etc the power to make rules, regulations, and bye-laws under the proposed code shall be subject to the condition of the previous publication in the manner as specified in the clauseclause 138—this clause deals with power to make regulations without previous publication the matters in which such regulations shall be made are specified in the clauseclause 139—this clause relates to bye-laws the employer of a mine is empowered to make bye-laws as specified in the clauseclause 140—this clause deals with the power of central government to make rules to regulate general safety and health of the persons residing in whole or part of india, in the event of declaration of an epidemic, pandemic or disaster, for such period as may be notified by the central governmentclause 141—this clause relating to laying of regulations, rules and bye-laws etc, before parliamentclause 142—this clause relating to laying of rules made by state government before the state legislatureclause 143—this clause deals withthe provisions relating to repeal and savings the enactments which are being repealed are enumerated in the clause every chief inspector, additional chief inspector, joint chief inspector, deputy chief inspector, inspector and every other officer appointed for the purposes under any of the provisions of the enactments repealed by the proposed code, shall be deemed to have been appointed under the proposed code for such purposes under the proposed code certain actions under the repealed enactments have also been saved financial memorandumthe provisions of the occupational safety, health and working conditions code,2020 does not involve any additional expenditure, either recurring or non-recurring, from the consolidated fund of india memorandum  regarding  delegated  legislationsub-clause (1) of clause 133 (1) of the code empowers the appropriate government, subject to the condition of previous publication and by notification, to make rules for carrying out the provisions of the proposed code sub-clause (2) specifies the matters in respect of which such rules may be made these matters, inter alia, include— (a) the substance or quantity of  substance under clause (zb) of sub-section (1) of section 2; (b) the late fee under the proviso to sub-section (1) of section 3; (c) the form and manner of sending the notice and the authority to whom the notice shall be sent and the manner of intimating the authority under sub-section (1) of section 5; (d) the information to be included in the letter of appointment and the form of such letter under clause (f) sub-section (1) of section 6; (e) the nature of bodily injury and the manner of notice and the time within which the notice shall be sent and the authority to which notice shall be sent under sub-section (1) of section 10; (f) the nature of dangerous occurrence and the form of notice, the time within which and the authority to which notice shall be sent under section 11; (g) the manner of making report by employee under clause (d) and other duties of employees under clause (g) of section 13; (h) the manner of sending report of action taken under sub-section (3) of section 14; (i) conditions for exemption of workers from weekly and compensatory holidays under subsection (2) of section 26; (j) the form of notice and manner of display of such notice and the manner in which such notice shall be sent to the inspector-cum-facilitator under sub-section (2) of section 31; (k) the return, manner of filing the return and periods of filing return to the inspector-cum-facilitator under clause (d) of section 33;  (l) the other powers and duties under clause (xiv) of sub-section (1) of section 35;  (m) the qualification for the appointment of medical practitioner and other in relation to an establishment under sub-section (1) of section 42; (n) the other establishment engaged in the dangerous occupation or processes under clause (a) of sub-section (2) of section 42;  (o) the conditions relating to safety, holidays and working hours or any other condition to be observed by the employer under section 43; (p) the form and manner of application and the particulars which such application shall contain regarding the number of contract labour, nature of work for which contract labour is to be employed and other particulars including the information relating to the employment of inter-state migrant workers under sub-section (1) of section 48;  (q) the manner of applying for the renewal of licence and the manner of renewal of licence under sub-section (3) of section 48; (r) the manner of payment of wages from security deposit under sub-section (4) of section 55; (s) the manner of providing facility of toll free helpline under section 63; (t) the manner of holding enquiry under sub-section (1) of section 111;(u) the form and manner of preferring appeal and the fee to accompany such appeal under sub-section (3) of section 111; (v) the manner of compounding under sub-section (1) of section 114; (w) the form of appeal, the fee to be accompanied therewith and the appellate authority under sub-section (5) of section 119;  (x) the manner of survey under sub-section (2)of section 121; and  (y) any other matter which is required to be, or may be, prescribed under this code2 sub-clause (1) of clause 134 empowers the central government, subject to the condition of previous publication and by notification, to make rules for carrying out the provisions of the proposed code sub-clause (2) specifies the matters in respect of which such rules may be made these matters, inter alia, include:— (a) the other authority under sub-clause (iii) of clause (zs) of sub-section (1) of section 2; (b) the  form of certificate of registration, the time within which and the conditions subject to which such certificate shall be issued under sub-section (3) of section 3; (c) the terms and conditions of service of officers and employees of the national board under sub-section (4) of section 16; (d) the form and manner of collecting, compiling and analyzing occupational safety and health statistics under sub-section (1) of section 21; (e) the health and working conditions under sub-section (1) of section 23; (f) the matters specified in sub-section (2) of section 23; (g) the hours of work for working journalist under sub-section (2) of section 25; (h) the maximum period of accumulating leave under clause (ii) sub-section (3) of section 25; (i) the conditions and restrictions for entitlement of cash compensation under clause (iv) of sub-section (3) of section 25; ( j) the requisite qualifications or criteria under sub-section (1) of section 47;(k) the conditions relating to workings, opencast workings and explosives under clause (b) of sub-section (1) of section 68; (l) the authority, the manner of informing such authority and the time limit for making such information under sub-section (3) of section 68; (m) the language of the bye-laws under sub-section (7) of section 139; and (n) any other with which is required to be, or may be, prescribed under this code3 sub-clause (1) of clause 135 empowers the state government, subject to the condition of previous publication and by notification, to make rules for the matters relating to the factories, plantation and any other matter for the carrying out the provision of the proposed code sub-clause (2) specifies the matters in respect of which such rules may be madethese matters, inter alia, include:— (a) the number of members and their qualifications under sub-section (3) of section 17;  (b) the manner of preparing the plan of the place or premises under sub-section (3) of section 74;  (c) the other matters under clause (e) of subsection (4) of section 74;  (d) the time of filing appeal and fees under section 75; (e) the manner of disclosing information by occupier of a factory under sub-section (1) of section84; (f) the qualification and experience of persons handling hazardous substance and manner of providing necessary facilities for protecting the workers under clause (b) of section 85;(g) the value of the maximum permissible limit of exposure of chemical and toxic substances in manufacturing process in any factory under section 88; (h) the matters for prohibiting or, restricting employment of women or adolescents under sub-section (2) of section 93; (i) the manner of periodical medical examination of worker under sub-section (5) of section 93; (j) the manner of providing facilities, clothing and equipment under sub-section (7) of section 93; and  (k) any other matter which is required to be, or may be, prescribed4 sub-clause (3) of clause 135 empowers the central government, by notification, and in consultation with the state government, to make rules for the purposes of bringing uniformity, throughout the country, in occupational safety, health or such other matters as it considers necessary in respect of factories5 sub-clause (1) of clause 136 empowers the central government, by notification to make regulations consistent with the proposed code for all or any of the following purposes namely:— (a) for specifying the qualifications required for appointment as inspector-cum- facilitator; (b) for specifying the duties of owners, agents and managers of mines and of persons acting under them, and for specifying the qualifications (including age) of agents and managers of mines and of persons acting under them;  (c) for fixing the fees, if any, to be paid in respect of such examinations and of the grant and renewal of such certificates; (d) for regulating, subject to the provisions of the indian explosives act, 1884, and of any rules made there under, the storage, conveyance and use of explosives; (e) for prohibiting the employment in a mine either as manager or in any other specified capacity of any person except persons paid by the owner of the mine and directly answerable to the owner or manager of the mine; (f) for providing for the ventilation of mines and the action to be taken in respect of dust, fire, and inflammable and noxious gases, including precautions against spontaneous combustion, underground fire and coal dust; (g) for providing for proper lighting of mines and regulating the use of safety lamps therein and for the search of persons entering a mine in which safety lamps are in use; (h) for regulating the procedure on the occurrence of accidents or accidental explosions or ignitions in or about, mines; for dealing effectively with the situation; (i) for specifying the form of, and the particulars to be contained in, the notice to be given by the owner, agent or manager of a mine under section 5; ( j) for requiring the fencing of any mine or part of a mine or any quarry, incline, shaft, pit or outlet, whether the same is being worked or not, or any dangerous or prohibited area, subsidence, haulage, tramline or pathway, where such fencing is necessary for the protection of the public;  (k) for specifying the number of officials to be appointed; (l) for specifying the period during which the agent shall be resident in india; (m) for providing for the safety in opencast mines and associated operations and machineries used therein; (n) for specifying the forms of returns which shall be filed by the establishments or the class of establishments under this code; (o) providing for the fire and explosion prevention and protection;(p) providing for the safety of workers employed in freight container terminals or other terminals for handling unitised cargo; (q) providing for the construction, maintenance and use of staging; (r) providing for the work in connection with cleaning, chipping, painting, operations and precautions to be taken in connection with such work; (s) providing for the transport  of dock workers; (t) providing for the submission of statement of accidents, mandays lost, volume of cargo handled and particulars of dock workers; and (u) any other matter which is required to be or may be specified by regulation6 the matters in respect of which the said rules and regulations may be made are matters of procedure or administrative detail, and as such, it is not practicable to provide for them in the code itself the delegation of legislative power is, therefore, of a normal character———— a billto consolidate and amend the laws regulating the occupational safety, health and working conditions of the persons employed in an establishment and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto————[shri santosh kumar gangwar, minister of state for labour and employment(independent charge)]mgipmrnd—555ls(s3)—16-09-2020