Chapter XI - Contract labour

Section 45: Applicability of this Part

Current statutory text

45. Applicability of this Part.—(1) This Part shall apply to—

            (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:

      Provided 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 final.

     Explanation.—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

             (ii) if it is of seasonal character and is performed for more than sixty days in a year.

Finin2min clause-by-clause decode

1. This page does not replace the statutory text. It separates the operative legal transaction into controls so that each subsection, proviso, exception and delegated instrument can be checked against the official India Code source before use.
2. Identify the covered establishment, worker category, appropriate Government and event date.
3. Identify the covered establishment, worker category, appropriate Government and sector-specific overlay.
4. Convert each statutory condition and proviso into an assigned action with a clear deadline.
5. Break the provision into trigger, actor, action, timing, evidence and consequence before configuring the process.
6. Map the enabling Rule, form, Schedule, authority and any sector-specific notification.
7. Read the corresponding Central Rule, prescribed form, Schedule and notified authority together.
8. Preserve the decision memo, worker communication, register, portal acknowledgement and payment or inspection evidence.
9. Create a named control owner and maker-checker evidence trail.
10. Record exceptions, non-compliance consequences, remedy, appeal forum and limitation period.

Applicable Central Rules immediately below the provision

Consequence, remedy and limitation

Identify the substantive default first, then separately map arrears or benefit, interest/damages, administrative penalty, prosecution, compounding, company/officer liability, forum, appeal and limitation. Do not infer a remedy from the heading alone.

Mapped Rules: Rule 85, Rule 86, Rule 87, Rule 88, Rule 89, Rule 90, Rule 91, Rule 92, Rule 93, Rule 94, Rule 95, Rule 96, Rule 97, Rule 98, Rule 99, Rule 100, Rule 101 | Official source: section 45.

Section 46: Appointment of designated authority

Current statutory text

46. Appointment of designated authority.—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
therein.

Finin2min clause-by-clause decode

1. This page does not replace the statutory text. It separates the operative legal transaction into controls so that each subsection, proviso, exception and delegated instrument can be checked against the official India Code source before use.
2. Identify the covered establishment, worker category, appropriate Government and event date.
3. Identify the covered establishment, worker category, appropriate Government and sector-specific overlay.
4. Convert each statutory condition and proviso into an assigned action with a clear deadline.
5. Break the provision into trigger, actor, action, timing, evidence and consequence before configuring the process.
6. Map the enabling Rule, form, Schedule, authority and any sector-specific notification.
7. Read the corresponding Central Rule, prescribed form, Schedule and notified authority together.
8. Preserve the decision memo, worker communication, register, portal acknowledgement and payment or inspection evidence.
9. Create a named control owner and maker-checker evidence trail.
10. Record exceptions, non-compliance consequences, remedy, appeal forum and limitation period.

Applicable Central Rules immediately below the provision

Consequence, remedy and limitation

Identify the substantive default first, then separately map arrears or benefit, interest/damages, administrative penalty, prosecution, compounding, company/officer liability, forum, appeal and limitation. Do not infer a remedy from the heading alone.

Mapped Rules: Rule 85, Rule 86, Rule 87, Rule 88, Rule 89, Rule 90, Rule 91, Rule 92, Rule 93, Rule 94, Rule 95, Rule 96, Rule 97, Rule 98, Rule 99, Rule 100, Rule 101 | Official source: section 46.

Section 47: Licensing of contractors

Current statutory text

47. Licensing of contractors.—(1) No contractor to whom this Part applies shall—

        (a) supply or engage contract labour in any establishment; or

        (b) undertake or execute the work through contract labour,

except 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 contractor.

   (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,—

       (a) a licence under sub-section (1) may contain such conditions including, in particular, 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—



            (i) the Central Government, the authority referred to in sub-section (1) of section 119 designated
     by that Government; and

             (ii) the State Government, the authority referred to in sub-section (1) of section 119 designated
     by that Government:

   Provided 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:

   Provided further that before issuing such licence the authority referred to in the first proviso shall
consult the concerned State or States authorities designated under sub-section (1) of section 119,
electronically before issuing licence for the establishments for which the appropriate Government is the
State Government.

Finin2min clause-by-clause decode

1. This page does not replace the statutory text. It separates the operative legal transaction into controls so that each subsection, proviso, exception and delegated instrument can be checked against the official India Code source before use.
2. Classify the principal employer, contractor, worksite, worker category and inter-State movement facts.
3. Verify threshold, contractor qualification, licence scope, validity, work order and maximum headcount before mobilisation.
4. Test registration/licensing, threshold, appointment, journey allowance, displacement or other worker entitlement triggers.
5. Flow statutory obligations into the commercial contract without attempting to contract out principal-employer liability.
6. Reconcile attendance, wage, social-security, accommodation, safety and contractor invoice records worker by worker.
7. Reconcile attendance, wages, social security, welfare, safety induction and incident data worker by worker.
8. Create a principal-employer recovery file without treating contractual indemnity as a substitute for statutory performance.
9. Track work-order intimation, half-yearly/annual returns, security deposit and change notifications.
10. Map inspection, claim, recovery, appeal and penal consequences for both principal employer and contractor.

Applicable Central Rules immediately below the provision

Consequence, remedy and limitation

Identify the substantive default first, then separately map arrears or benefit, interest/damages, administrative penalty, prosecution, compounding, company/officer liability, forum, appeal and limitation. Do not infer a remedy from the heading alone.

Mapped Rules: Rule 85, Rule 86, Rule 87, Rule 88, Rule 89, Rule 90, Rule 91, Rule 92, Rule 93, Rule 94, Rule 95, Rule 96 | Official source: section 47.

Section 48: Procedure for issue or renewal of licence

Current statutory text

48. Procedure for issue or renewal of licence.—(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 Government.

   (3) Subject to the provisions of section 119, the licence issued for the purposes of sub-section (1) of
section 47 shall be valid for a period of five years in respect of the number of 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 if the 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
Government.

Finin2min clause-by-clause decode

1. This page does not replace the statutory text. It separates the operative legal transaction into controls so that each subsection, proviso, exception and delegated instrument can be checked against the official India Code source before use.
2. Test the establishment, activity, worker-count and sector thresholds that trigger registration or licensing.
3. Confirm whether the establishment, contractor or premises falls within the relevant threshold and jurisdiction.
4. Identify the competent registering or licensing officer and the Central/State jurisdiction before filing.
5. Use the prescribed electronic form and attach identity, address, constitution and work-order evidence.
6. Map the prescribed application, attachments, fee, security, validity, renewal and amendment events.
7. Track completeness, statutory processing period, deemed outcome where expressly provided, and portal acknowledgement.
8. Keep the certificate or licence displayed and reconcile contractor, migrant-worker and location data to the approved particulars.
9. Update material changes within the prescribed period; registration or licence is not transferable unless law says otherwise.
10. Track refusal, suspension, revocation, appeal, limitation and the consequences of operating without valid authority.

Applicable Central Rules immediately below the provision

Consequence, remedy and limitation

Identify the substantive default first, then separately map arrears or benefit, interest/damages, administrative penalty, prosecution, compounding, company/officer liability, forum, appeal and limitation. Do not infer a remedy from the heading alone.

Mapped Rules: Rule 87, Rule 88, Rule 89, Rule 90, Rule 91, Rule 96 | Official source: section 48.

Section 49: No fees or commission or any cost to workers

Current statutory text

49. No fees or commission or any cost to workers.—The contractor shall not charge directly or
indirectly, in whole or in part, any fee or commission from the contract labour.

Finin2min clause-by-clause decode

1. This page does not replace the statutory text. It separates the operative legal transaction into controls so that each subsection, proviso, exception and delegated instrument can be checked against the official India Code source before use.
2. Identify the covered establishment, worker category, appropriate Government and event date.
3. Identify the covered establishment, worker category, appropriate Government and sector-specific overlay.
4. Convert each statutory condition and proviso into an assigned action with a clear deadline.
5. Break the provision into trigger, actor, action, timing, evidence and consequence before configuring the process.
6. Map the enabling Rule, form, Schedule, authority and any sector-specific notification.
7. Read the corresponding Central Rule, prescribed form, Schedule and notified authority together.
8. Preserve the decision memo, worker communication, register, portal acknowledgement and payment or inspection evidence.
9. Create a named control owner and maker-checker evidence trail.
10. Record exceptions, non-compliance consequences, remedy, appeal forum and limitation period.

Applicable Central Rules immediately below the provision

Consequence, remedy and limitation

Identify the substantive default first, then separately map arrears or benefit, interest/damages, administrative penalty, prosecution, compounding, company/officer liability, forum, appeal and limitation. Do not infer a remedy from the heading alone.

Mapped Rules: Rule 85, Rule 86, Rule 87, Rule 88, Rule 89, Rule 90, Rule 91, Rule 92, Rule 93, Rule 94, Rule 95, Rule 96, Rule 97, Rule 98, Rule 99, Rule 100, Rule 101 | Official source: section 49.

Section 50: Information regarding work order to be given to the appropriate Government

Current statutory text

50. Information regarding work order to be given to the appropriate Government.—(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 119.

   (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 Government.

Finin2min clause-by-clause decode

1. This page does not replace the statutory text. It separates the operative legal transaction into controls so that each subsection, proviso, exception and delegated instrument can be checked against the official India Code source before use.
2. Identify the covered establishment, worker category, appropriate Government and event date.
3. Verify threshold, contractor qualification, licence scope, validity, work order and maximum headcount before mobilisation.
4. Convert each statutory condition and proviso into an assigned action with a clear deadline.
5. Flow statutory obligations into the commercial contract without attempting to contract out principal-employer liability.
6. Map the enabling Rule, form, Schedule, authority and any sector-specific notification.
7. Reconcile attendance, wages, social security, welfare, safety induction and incident data worker by worker.
8. Preserve the decision memo, worker communication, register, portal acknowledgement and payment or inspection evidence.
9. Track work-order intimation, half-yearly/annual returns, security deposit and change notifications.
10. Record exceptions, non-compliance consequences, remedy, appeal forum and limitation period.

Applicable Central Rules immediately below the provision

Consequence, remedy and limitation

Identify the substantive default first, then separately map arrears or benefit, interest/damages, administrative penalty, prosecution, compounding, company/officer liability, forum, appeal and limitation. Do not infer a remedy from the heading alone.

Mapped Rules: Rule 94 | Official source: section 50.

Section 51: Revocation, suspension and amendment of licence

Current statutory text

51. Revocation, suspension and amendment of licence.—(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—

       (a) a licence granted for the purposes of this Part has been obtained by misrepresentation or
   suppression of any material fact, or

       (b) the holder of a licence has, failed to comply with the conditions subject to which the licence has
   been granted or has contravened any of the provisions of this Part or the rules made thereunder, then,

without 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 Part.

Finin2min clause-by-clause decode

1. This page does not replace the statutory text. It separates the operative legal transaction into controls so that each subsection, proviso, exception and delegated instrument can be checked against the official India Code source before use.
2. Test the establishment, activity, worker-count and sector thresholds that trigger registration or licensing.
3. Confirm whether the establishment, contractor or premises falls within the relevant threshold and jurisdiction.
4. Identify the competent registering or licensing officer and the Central/State jurisdiction before filing.
5. Use the prescribed electronic form and attach identity, address, constitution and work-order evidence.
6. Map the prescribed application, attachments, fee, security, validity, renewal and amendment events.
7. Track completeness, statutory processing period, deemed outcome where expressly provided, and portal acknowledgement.
8. Keep the certificate or licence displayed and reconcile contractor, migrant-worker and location data to the approved particulars.
9. Update material changes within the prescribed period; registration or licence is not transferable unless law says otherwise.
10. Track refusal, suspension, revocation, appeal, limitation and the consequences of operating without valid authority.

Applicable Central Rules immediately below the provision

Consequence, remedy and limitation

Identify the substantive default first, then separately map arrears or benefit, interest/damages, administrative penalty, prosecution, compounding, company/officer liability, forum, appeal and limitation. Do not infer a remedy from the heading alone.

Mapped Rules: Rule 95, Rule 96 | Official source: section 51.

Section 52: Appeal

Current statutory text

52. Appeal.—(1) Any person aggrieved by an order made under section 47, section 48 or section 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
time.

   (2) On receipt of an appeal under sub-section (1), the appellate authority shall, after giving the
appellant an opportunity of being heard, dispose of the appeal within thirty days from the date on which
the appeal is preferred.

Finin2min clause-by-clause decode

1. This page does not replace the statutory text. It separates the operative legal transaction into controls so that each subsection, proviso, exception and delegated instrument can be checked against the official India Code source before use.
2. Identify the covered establishment, worker category, appropriate Government and event date.
3. Identify the covered establishment, worker category, appropriate Government and sector-specific overlay.
4. Convert each statutory condition and proviso into an assigned action with a clear deadline.
5. Break the provision into trigger, actor, action, timing, evidence and consequence before configuring the process.
6. Map the enabling Rule, form, Schedule, authority and any sector-specific notification.
7. Read the corresponding Central Rule, prescribed form, Schedule and notified authority together.
8. Preserve the decision memo, worker communication, register, portal acknowledgement and payment or inspection evidence.
9. Create a named control owner and maker-checker evidence trail.
10. Record exceptions, non-compliance consequences, remedy, appeal forum and limitation period.

Applicable Central Rules immediately below the provision

Consequence, remedy and limitation

Identify the substantive default first, then separately map arrears or benefit, interest/damages, administrative penalty, prosecution, compounding, company/officer liability, forum, appeal and limitation. Do not infer a remedy from the heading alone.

Mapped Rules: Rule 97 | Official source: section 52.

Section 53: Liability of principal employer for welfare facilities

Current statutory text

53. Liability of principal employer for welfare facilities.—Welfare  facilities specified under
section 23 and section 24 shall be provided by the principal employer of the establishment to the contract
labour who are employed in such establishment.

Finin2min clause-by-clause decode

1. This page does not replace the statutory text. It separates the operative legal transaction into controls so that each subsection, proviso, exception and delegated instrument can be checked against the official India Code source before use.
2. Classify the worker, shift, establishment and State/Central sphere before applying hours or welfare conditions.
3. Determine the applicable worker threshold, sector and gender/age-related requirement.
4. Map daily/weekly limits, spread-over, rest, consent, transport, security, leave and overtime requirements as applicable.
5. Provide the facility at the required location, capacity, accessibility and operating hours.
6. Configure roster, attendance and payroll controls so operational scheduling cannot bypass the statutory condition.
7. Appoint trained personnel and maintain supplies, hygiene and emergency readiness.
8. Retain worker consent/communication, risk assessment, facility records, inspections and payment evidence.
9. Do not recover prohibited costs from workers; document service contracts and inspections.
10. Provide a complaint and correction route and test State variations, exemption conditions and consequences.

Applicable Central Rules immediately below the provision

Consequence, remedy and limitation

Identify the substantive default first, then separately map arrears or benefit, interest/damages, administrative penalty, prosecution, compounding, company/officer liability, forum, appeal and limitation. Do not infer a remedy from the heading alone.

Mapped Rules: Rule 86, Rule 93, Rule 98, Rule 99, Rule 184 | Official source: section 53.

Section 54: Effect of employing contract labour from a non-licenced contractor

Current statutory text

54. Effect of employing contract labour from a non-licenced contractor.—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 Code.

Finin2min clause-by-clause decode

1. This page does not replace the statutory text. It separates the operative legal transaction into controls so that each subsection, proviso, exception and delegated instrument can be checked against the official India Code source before use.
2. Test the establishment, activity, worker-count and sector thresholds that trigger registration or licensing.
3. Confirm whether the establishment, contractor or premises falls within the relevant threshold and jurisdiction.
4. Identify the competent registering or licensing officer and the Central/State jurisdiction before filing.
5. Use the prescribed electronic form and attach identity, address, constitution and work-order evidence.
6. Map the prescribed application, attachments, fee, security, validity, renewal and amendment events.
7. Track completeness, statutory processing period, deemed outcome where expressly provided, and portal acknowledgement.
8. Keep the certificate or licence displayed and reconcile contractor, migrant-worker and location data to the approved particulars.
9. Update material changes within the prescribed period; registration or licence is not transferable unless law says otherwise.
10. Track refusal, suspension, revocation, appeal, limitation and the consequences of operating without valid authority.

Applicable Central Rules immediately below the provision

Consequence, remedy and limitation

Identify the substantive default first, then separately map arrears or benefit, interest/damages, administrative penalty, prosecution, compounding, company/officer liability, forum, appeal and limitation. Do not infer a remedy from the heading alone.

Mapped Rules: Rule 85, Rule 86, Rule 87, Rule 88, Rule 89, Rule 90, Rule 91, Rule 92, Rule 93, Rule 94, Rule 95, Rule 96, Rule 97, Rule 98, Rule 99, Rule 100, Rule 101 | Official source: section 54.

Section 55: Responsibility for payment of wages

Current statutory text

55. Responsibility for payment of wages.— (1) A contractor shall be responsible for payment of
wages to each contract labour 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:

   Provided that 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 Government.

   (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 contractor.

   (4) The appropriate Government, in the event the contractor does not pay the wages to 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 Government.

Finin2min clause-by-clause decode

1. This page does not replace the statutory text. It separates the operative legal transaction into controls so that each subsection, proviso, exception and delegated instrument can be checked against the official India Code source before use.
2. Identify the covered establishment, worker category, appropriate Government and event date.
3. Identify the covered establishment, worker category, appropriate Government and sector-specific overlay.
4. Convert each statutory condition and proviso into an assigned action with a clear deadline.
5. Break the provision into trigger, actor, action, timing, evidence and consequence before configuring the process.
6. Map the enabling Rule, form, Schedule, authority and any sector-specific notification.
7. Read the corresponding Central Rule, prescribed form, Schedule and notified authority together.
8. Preserve the decision memo, worker communication, register, portal acknowledgement and payment or inspection evidence.
9. Create a named control owner and maker-checker evidence trail.
10. Record exceptions, non-compliance consequences, remedy, appeal forum and limitation period.

Applicable Central Rules immediately below the provision

Consequence, remedy and limitation

Identify the substantive default first, then separately map arrears or benefit, interest/damages, administrative penalty, prosecution, compounding, company/officer liability, forum, appeal and limitation. Do not infer a remedy from the heading alone.

Mapped Rules: Rule 98, Rule 99 | Official source: section 55.

Section 56: Experience certificate

Current statutory text

56. Experience  certificate.—Every  concerned  contractor  shall  issue, on demand,  experience
certificate, in such form as may be prescribed by the appropriate Government, to the contract labour
giving details of the work performed by such contract labour.

Finin2min clause-by-clause decode

1. This page does not replace the statutory text. It separates the operative legal transaction into controls so that each subsection, proviso, exception and delegated instrument can be checked against the official India Code source before use.
2. Identify the covered establishment, worker category, appropriate Government and event date.
3. Identify the prescribed form, data owner, filing frequency and competent recipient.
4. Convert each statutory condition and proviso into an assigned action with a clear deadline.
5. Maintain one controlled source of truth across HRIS, attendance, payroll, contractor and safety systems.
6. Map the enabling Rule, form, Schedule, authority and any sector-specific notification.
7. Use maker-checker validation and reconcile totals before filing or display.
8. Preserve the decision memo, worker communication, register, portal acknowledgement and payment or inspection evidence.
9. Preserve acknowledgements, corrections and version history for the required retention period.
10. Record exceptions, non-compliance consequences, remedy, appeal forum and limitation period.

Applicable Central Rules immediately below the provision

Consequence, remedy and limitation

Identify the substantive default first, then separately map arrears or benefit, interest/damages, administrative penalty, prosecution, compounding, company/officer liability, forum, appeal and limitation. Do not infer a remedy from the heading alone.

Mapped Rules: Rule 100 | Official source: section 56.

Section 57: Prohibition of employment of contract labour

Current statutory text

57. Prohibition of employment of contract labour.—(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in this
Part, employment of contract labour in core activities of any establishment is prohibited:

   Provided that the principal employer may engage contract labour through a contractor to 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;

       (c) any sudden increase of volume of work in the core activity which needs to be 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 otherwise;

       (b) if a question arises as to whether any activity of an establishment is a core activity or otherwise,
   the aggrieved party may make an application in such form and manner as may be prescribed, to the
   appropriate Government for decision;

       (c) the appropriate Government may refer any such question suo motu or refer the 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 prescribed.

Finin2min clause-by-clause decode

1. This page does not replace the statutory text. It separates the operative legal transaction into controls so that each subsection, proviso, exception and delegated instrument can be checked against the official India Code source before use.
2. Classify the principal employer, contractor, worksite, worker category and inter-State movement facts.
3. Verify threshold, contractor qualification, licence scope, validity, work order and maximum headcount before mobilisation.
4. Test registration/licensing, threshold, appointment, journey allowance, displacement or other worker entitlement triggers.
5. Flow statutory obligations into the commercial contract without attempting to contract out principal-employer liability.
6. Reconcile attendance, wage, social-security, accommodation, safety and contractor invoice records worker by worker.
7. Reconcile attendance, wages, social security, welfare, safety induction and incident data worker by worker.
8. Create a principal-employer recovery file without treating contractual indemnity as a substitute for statutory performance.
9. Track work-order intimation, half-yearly/annual returns, security deposit and change notifications.
10. Map inspection, claim, recovery, appeal and penal consequences for both principal employer and contractor.

Applicable Central Rules immediately below the provision

Consequence, remedy and limitation

Identify the substantive default first, then separately map arrears or benefit, interest/damages, administrative penalty, prosecution, compounding, company/officer liability, forum, appeal and limitation. Do not infer a remedy from the heading alone.

Mapped Rules: Rule 101 | Official source: section 57.

Section 58: Power to exempt in special cases

Current statutory text

58. Power to exempt in special cases.—The appropriate Government may, in the case of an
emergency, direct, by notification, 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 WORKERS

Finin2min clause-by-clause decode

1. This page does not replace the statutory text. It separates the operative legal transaction into controls so that each subsection, proviso, exception and delegated instrument can be checked against the official India Code source before use.
2. Identify the covered establishment, worker category, appropriate Government and event date.
3. Identify the covered establishment, worker category, appropriate Government and sector-specific overlay.
4. Convert each statutory condition and proviso into an assigned action with a clear deadline.
5. Break the provision into trigger, actor, action, timing, evidence and consequence before configuring the process.
6. Map the enabling Rule, form, Schedule, authority and any sector-specific notification.
7. Read the corresponding Central Rule, prescribed form, Schedule and notified authority together.
8. Preserve the decision memo, worker communication, register, portal acknowledgement and payment or inspection evidence.
9. Create a named control owner and maker-checker evidence trail.
10. Record exceptions, non-compliance consequences, remedy, appeal forum and limitation period.

Applicable Central Rules immediately below the provision

Consequence, remedy and limitation

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Mapped Rules: Rule 85, Rule 86, Rule 87, Rule 88, Rule 89, Rule 90, Rule 91, Rule 92, Rule 93, Rule 94, Rule 95, Rule 96, Rule 97, Rule 98, Rule 99, Rule 100, Rule 101 | Official source: section 58.

Section 59: Applicability of Part II

Current statutory text

59. Applicability of Part II.—This Part shall apply to every establishment in which ten or more inter-
State migrant workers are employed or were employed on any day of the preceding twelve months.

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2. Identify the covered establishment, worker category, appropriate Government and event date.
3. Identify the covered establishment, worker category, appropriate Government and sector-specific overlay.
4. Convert each statutory condition and proviso into an assigned action with a clear deadline.
5. Break the provision into trigger, actor, action, timing, evidence and consequence before configuring the process.
6. Map the enabling Rule, form, Schedule, authority and any sector-specific notification.
7. Read the corresponding Central Rule, prescribed form, Schedule and notified authority together.
8. Preserve the decision memo, worker communication, register, portal acknowledgement and payment or inspection evidence.
9. Create a named control owner and maker-checker evidence trail.
10. Record exceptions, non-compliance consequences, remedy, appeal forum and limitation period.

Applicable Central Rules immediately below the provision

Consequence, remedy and limitation

Identify the substantive default first, then separately map arrears or benefit, interest/damages, administrative penalty, prosecution, compounding, company/officer liability, forum, appeal and limitation. Do not infer a remedy from the heading alone.

Mapped Rules: Rule 102, Rule 103, Rule 104 | Official source: section 59.

Section 60: Facilities to inter-State migrant workers

Current statutory text

60. Facilities to inter-State migrant workers.—It shall be the duty of every contractor or the
employer, of an establishment employing inter-State migrant workers in connection with the work of that
establishment—

        (i) to ensure suitable conditions of work to such worker having regard to the fact 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, to report to the specified
   authorities of both the States and also the next of kin of the worker;

         (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 (34 of 1948) or the Employees'
   Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952 (19 of 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 6.

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2. Classify the principal employer, contractor, worksite, worker category and inter-State movement facts.
3. Identify migrant status using recruitment, residence and deployment facts rather than contractor labels alone.
4. Test registration/licensing, threshold, appointment, journey allowance, displacement or other worker entitlement triggers.
5. Capture origin, destination, emergency contact and skills information with privacy safeguards.
6. Reconcile attendance, wage, social-security, accommodation, safety and contractor invoice records worker by worker.
7. Provide prescribed facilities and journey allowance without unlawful deduction.
8. Create a principal-employer recovery file without treating contractual indemnity as a substitute for statutory performance.
9. Display and communicate helpline/grievance access in a language understood by workers.
10. Map inspection, claim, recovery, appeal and penal consequences for both principal employer and contractor.

Applicable Central Rules immediately below the provision

Consequence, remedy and limitation

Identify the substantive default first, then separately map arrears or benefit, interest/damages, administrative penalty, prosecution, compounding, company/officer liability, forum, appeal and limitation. Do not infer a remedy from the heading alone.

Mapped Rules: Rule 103 | Official source: section 60.

Section 61: Journey allowance

Current statutory text

61. Journey allowance.—The employer shall pay, to every inter-State migrant worker employed in
his establishment, 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
Government.

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2. Identify the covered establishment, worker category, appropriate Government and event date.
3. Identify migrant status using recruitment, residence and deployment facts rather than contractor labels alone.
4. Convert each statutory condition and proviso into an assigned action with a clear deadline.
5. Capture origin, destination, emergency contact and skills information with privacy safeguards.
6. Map the enabling Rule, form, Schedule, authority and any sector-specific notification.
7. Provide prescribed facilities and journey allowance without unlawful deduction.
8. Preserve the decision memo, worker communication, register, portal acknowledgement and payment or inspection evidence.
9. Display and communicate helpline/grievance access in a language understood by workers.
10. Record exceptions, non-compliance consequences, remedy, appeal forum and limitation period.

Applicable Central Rules immediately below the provision

Consequence, remedy and limitation

Identify the substantive default first, then separately map arrears or benefit, interest/damages, administrative penalty, prosecution, compounding, company/officer liability, forum, appeal and limitation. Do not infer a remedy from the heading alone.

Mapped Rules: Rule 102 | Official source: section 61.

Section 62: Benefits of public distribution system, etc.

Current statutory text

62. Benefits of public distribution system, etc.—The appropriate Government shall make schemes to
provide—

       (a) option to an inter-State migrant worker for availing benefits of public distribution system either
   in his native State or the destination State where he is employed; and

       (b) for portability of the benefits of the inter-State migrant worker working for 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.

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2. Identify the covered establishment, worker category, appropriate Government and event date.
3. Identify the covered establishment, worker category, appropriate Government and sector-specific overlay.
4. Convert each statutory condition and proviso into an assigned action with a clear deadline.
5. Break the provision into trigger, actor, action, timing, evidence and consequence before configuring the process.
6. Map the enabling Rule, form, Schedule, authority and any sector-specific notification.
7. Read the corresponding Central Rule, prescribed form, Schedule and notified authority together.
8. Preserve the decision memo, worker communication, register, portal acknowledgement and payment or inspection evidence.
9. Create a named control owner and maker-checker evidence trail.
10. Record exceptions, non-compliance consequences, remedy, appeal forum and limitation period.

Applicable Central Rules immediately below the provision

Consequence, remedy and limitation

Identify the substantive default first, then separately map arrears or benefit, interest/damages, administrative penalty, prosecution, compounding, company/officer liability, forum, appeal and limitation. Do not infer a remedy from the heading alone.

Mapped Rules: Rule 102, Rule 103, Rule 104 | Official source: section 62.

Section 63: Toll free helpline

Current statutory text

63. Toll free helpline.—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.

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2. Identify the covered establishment, worker category, appropriate Government and event date.
3. Identify migrant status using recruitment, residence and deployment facts rather than contractor labels alone.
4. Convert each statutory condition and proviso into an assigned action with a clear deadline.
5. Capture origin, destination, emergency contact and skills information with privacy safeguards.
6. Map the enabling Rule, form, Schedule, authority and any sector-specific notification.
7. Provide prescribed facilities and journey allowance without unlawful deduction.
8. Preserve the decision memo, worker communication, register, portal acknowledgement and payment or inspection evidence.
9. Display and communicate helpline/grievance access in a language understood by workers.
10. Record exceptions, non-compliance consequences, remedy, appeal forum and limitation period.

Applicable Central Rules immediately below the provision

Consequence, remedy and limitation

Identify the substantive default first, then separately map arrears or benefit, interest/damages, administrative penalty, prosecution, compounding, company/officer liability, forum, appeal and limitation. Do not infer a remedy from the heading alone.

Mapped Rules: Rule 103 | Official source: section 63.

Section 64: Study of inter-State migrant workers

Current statutory text

64. Study of inter-State migrant workers.—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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2. Classify the principal employer, contractor, worksite, worker category and inter-State movement facts.
3. Identify migrant status using recruitment, residence and deployment facts rather than contractor labels alone.
4. Test registration/licensing, threshold, appointment, journey allowance, displacement or other worker entitlement triggers.
5. Capture origin, destination, emergency contact and skills information with privacy safeguards.
6. Reconcile attendance, wage, social-security, accommodation, safety and contractor invoice records worker by worker.
7. Provide prescribed facilities and journey allowance without unlawful deduction.
8. Create a principal-employer recovery file without treating contractual indemnity as a substitute for statutory performance.
9. Display and communicate helpline/grievance access in a language understood by workers.
10. Map inspection, claim, recovery, appeal and penal consequences for both principal employer and contractor.

Applicable Central Rules immediately below the provision

Consequence, remedy and limitation

Identify the substantive default first, then separately map arrears or benefit, interest/damages, administrative penalty, prosecution, compounding, company/officer liability, forum, appeal and limitation. Do not infer a remedy from the heading alone.

Mapped Rules: Rule 104 | Official source: section 64.

Section 65: Past liabilities

Current statutory text

65. Past liabilities.—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 WORKERS

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2. Identify the covered establishment, worker category, appropriate Government and event date.
3. Identify the covered establishment, worker category, appropriate Government and sector-specific overlay.
4. Convert each statutory condition and proviso into an assigned action with a clear deadline.
5. Break the provision into trigger, actor, action, timing, evidence and consequence before configuring the process.
6. Map the enabling Rule, form, Schedule, authority and any sector-specific notification.
7. Read the corresponding Central Rule, prescribed form, Schedule and notified authority together.
8. Preserve the decision memo, worker communication, register, portal acknowledgement and payment or inspection evidence.
9. Create a named control owner and maker-checker evidence trail.
10. Record exceptions, non-compliance consequences, remedy, appeal forum and limitation period.

Applicable Central Rules immediately below the provision

No direct Central Rule is mapped. Check general procedural Rules, State Rules and later notifications.

Consequence, remedy and limitation

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Mapped Rules: No direct Central Rule mapped in the repository concordance | Official source: section 65.

Section 66: Prohibition of employment of audio-visual worker without agreement

Current statutory text

66. Prohibition of employment of audio-visual worker without agreement.—(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—

            (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 with the contractor,
     where such person is employed through such contractor; or

             (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,—

          (a) be in the prescribed form;

          (b) specify the name and such other particulars as may be prescribed by the appropriate
     Government with respect to, such person to be employed under the agreement as audio-visual
      worker;

          (c) include, where such audio-visual worker  is employed through a contractor, 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 contractor.

   (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 Government.

   (4) Notwithstanding anything contained in Chapters V, VI and VII, the agreement referred to in
sub-section (1) shall include,—

            (i) nature of assignment;

             (ii) wages and other benefits (including provident fund,  if covered under the Employees’
      Provident Fund and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952 (19 of 1952));

             (iii) health and working conditions;

           (iv) safety;

          (v) hours of work;

           (vi) welfare facilities; and

            (vii) dispute resolution process or mechanism, the constitution and other details of which shall
     be prescribed by the appropriate Government:

      Provided that in case of failure of the resolution of the dispute in such dispute resolution 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 (14
   of 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 mode.

                                PART IV

                                       MINES

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2. Identify the covered establishment, worker category, appropriate Government and event date.
3. Identify the covered establishment, worker category, appropriate Government and sector-specific overlay.
4. Convert each statutory condition and proviso into an assigned action with a clear deadline.
5. Break the provision into trigger, actor, action, timing, evidence and consequence before configuring the process.
6. Map the enabling Rule, form, Schedule, authority and any sector-specific notification.
7. Read the corresponding Central Rule, prescribed form, Schedule and notified authority together.
8. Preserve the decision memo, worker communication, register, portal acknowledgement and payment or inspection evidence.
9. Create a named control owner and maker-checker evidence trail.
10. Record exceptions, non-compliance consequences, remedy, appeal forum and limitation period.

Applicable Central Rules immediately below the provision

Consequence, remedy and limitation

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Mapped Rules: Rule 105, Rule 106 | Official source: section 66.

Section 67: Managers

Current statutory text

67. Managers.— (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
qualifications.

   (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 forthwith.

   (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 manager.

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2. Identify the covered establishment, worker category, appropriate Government and event date.
3. Identify the covered establishment, worker category, appropriate Government and sector-specific overlay.
4. Convert each statutory condition and proviso into an assigned action with a clear deadline.
5. Break the provision into trigger, actor, action, timing, evidence and consequence before configuring the process.
6. Map the enabling Rule, form, Schedule, authority and any sector-specific notification.
7. Read the corresponding Central Rule, prescribed form, Schedule and notified authority together.
8. Preserve the decision memo, worker communication, register, portal acknowledgement and payment or inspection evidence.
9. Create a named control owner and maker-checker evidence trail.
10. Record exceptions, non-compliance consequences, remedy, appeal forum and limitation period.

Applicable Central Rules immediately below the provision

Consequence, remedy and limitation

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Mapped Rules: Rule 107 | Official source: section 67.

Section 68: Code not to apply in certain cases

Current statutory text

68. Code not to apply in certain cases.—(1) The provisions of this Code, except those contained in
sections 35, 38, 40, 41 and 44, shall not apply to—

       (a) any mine or part thereof in which excavation is being made for prospecting purposes 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;

       (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 Government.

   (2) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), the Central Government may declare that
the provisions of this Code shall apply to such mine or part thereof as may be prescribed by the Central
Government.

   (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
Government.

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3. Identify the covered establishment, worker category, appropriate Government and sector-specific overlay.
4. Convert each statutory condition and proviso into an assigned action with a clear deadline.
5. Break the provision into trigger, actor, action, timing, evidence and consequence before configuring the process.
6. Map the enabling Rule, form, Schedule, authority and any sector-specific notification.
7. Read the corresponding Central Rule, prescribed form, Schedule and notified authority together.
8. Preserve the decision memo, worker communication, register, portal acknowledgement and payment or inspection evidence.
9. Create a named control owner and maker-checker evidence trail.
10. Record exceptions, non-compliance consequences, remedy, appeal forum and limitation period.

Applicable Central Rules immediately below the provision

Consequence, remedy and limitation

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Mapped Rules: Rule 108 | Official source: section 68.

Section 69: Exemption from provision regarding employment

Current statutory text

69. Exemption from provision regarding employment.—(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:

   Provided 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-Facilitator.

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2. Identify the covered establishment, worker category, appropriate Government and event date.
3. Identify the covered establishment, worker category, appropriate Government and sector-specific overlay.
4. Convert each statutory condition and proviso into an assigned action with a clear deadline.
5. Break the provision into trigger, actor, action, timing, evidence and consequence before configuring the process.
6. Map the enabling Rule, form, Schedule, authority and any sector-specific notification.
7. Read the corresponding Central Rule, prescribed form, Schedule and notified authority together.
8. Preserve the decision memo, worker communication, register, portal acknowledgement and payment or inspection evidence.
9. Create a named control owner and maker-checker evidence trail.
10. Record exceptions, non-compliance consequences, remedy, appeal forum and limitation period.

Applicable Central Rules immediately below the provision

Consequence, remedy and limitation

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Mapped Rules: Rule 107, Rule 108, Rule 109, Rule 110, Rule 111, Rule 112, Rule 113, Rule 114, Rule 115, Rule 116, Rule 117, Rule 118, Rule 119, Rule 120, Rule 121, Rule 122, Rule 123, Rule 124, Rule 125, Rule 126, Rule 127, Rule 128, Rule 129, Rule 130, Rule 131, Rule 132, Rule 133, Rule 134, Rule 135, Rule 136, Rule 137, Rule 138, Rule 139, Rule 140, Rule 141, Rule 142, Rule 143, Rule 144, Rule 145, Rule 146, Rule 147, Rule 148, Rule 149, Rule 150, Rule 151, Rule 152, Rule 153, Rule 154, Rule 155, Rule 156, Rule 157, Rule 158, Rule 159, Rule 160, Rule 161, Rule 162, Rule 163, Rule 164, Rule 165, Rule 166, Rule 167, Rule 168, Rule 169, Rule 170, Rule 171, Rule 172, Rule 173, Rule 174, Rule 175, Rule 176 | Official source: section 69.

Section 70: Employment of persons below eighteen years of age

Current statutory text

70. Employment of persons below eighteen years of age.—(1) No person below eighteen years of
age shall be allowed to work in any mine or part thereof.

   (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:

   Provided that in the case of trainees, other than apprentices, prior approval of the Chief Inspector-cum-
Facilitator or an Inspector-cum-Facilitator shall be obtained before they are allowed to work.

   (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
employee.

   Explanation.—In this section, “apprentice” means an apprentice as defined in clause (a) of section 2 of
the Apprentices Act, 1961(52 of 1961).

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2. Identify the covered establishment, worker category, appropriate Government and event date.
3. Identify the covered establishment, worker category, appropriate Government and sector-specific overlay.
4. Convert each statutory condition and proviso into an assigned action with a clear deadline.
5. Break the provision into trigger, actor, action, timing, evidence and consequence before configuring the process.
6. Map the enabling Rule, form, Schedule, authority and any sector-specific notification.
7. Read the corresponding Central Rule, prescribed form, Schedule and notified authority together.
8. Preserve the decision memo, worker communication, register, portal acknowledgement and payment or inspection evidence.
9. Create a named control owner and maker-checker evidence trail.
10. Record exceptions, non-compliance consequences, remedy, appeal forum and limitation period.

Applicable Central Rules immediately below the provision

Consequence, remedy and limitation

Identify the substantive default first, then separately map arrears or benefit, interest/damages, administrative penalty, prosecution, compounding, company/officer liability, forum, appeal and limitation. Do not infer a remedy from the heading alone.

Mapped Rules: Rule 107, Rule 108, Rule 109, Rule 110, Rule 111, Rule 112, Rule 113, Rule 114, Rule 115, Rule 116, Rule 117, Rule 118, Rule 119, Rule 120, Rule 121, Rule 122, Rule 123, Rule 124, Rule 125, Rule 126, Rule 127, Rule 128, Rule 129, Rule 130, Rule 131, Rule 132, Rule 133, Rule 134, Rule 135, Rule 136, Rule 137, Rule 138, Rule 139, Rule 140, Rule 141, Rule 142, Rule 143, Rule 144, Rule 145, Rule 146, Rule 147, Rule 148, Rule 149, Rule 150, Rule 151, Rule 152, Rule 153, Rule 154, Rule 155, Rule 156, Rule 157, Rule 158, Rule 159, Rule 160, Rule 161, Rule 162, Rule 163, Rule 164, Rule 165, Rule 166, Rule 167, Rule 168, Rule 169, Rule 170, Rule 171, Rule 172, Rule 173, Rule 174, Rule 175, Rule 176 | Official source: section 70.

Section 71: Exemption to certain persons

Current statutory text

71. Exemption to certain persons.—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 31.

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2. Identify the covered establishment, worker category, appropriate Government and event date.
3. Identify the covered establishment, worker category, appropriate Government and sector-specific overlay.
4. Convert each statutory condition and proviso into an assigned action with a clear deadline.
5. Break the provision into trigger, actor, action, timing, evidence and consequence before configuring the process.
6. Map the enabling Rule, form, Schedule, authority and any sector-specific notification.
7. Read the corresponding Central Rule, prescribed form, Schedule and notified authority together.
8. Preserve the decision memo, worker communication, register, portal acknowledgement and payment or inspection evidence.
9. Create a named control owner and maker-checker evidence trail.
10. Record exceptions, non-compliance consequences, remedy, appeal forum and limitation period.

Applicable Central Rules immediately below the provision

Consequence, remedy and limitation

Identify the substantive default first, then separately map arrears or benefit, interest/damages, administrative penalty, prosecution, compounding, company/officer liability, forum, appeal and limitation. Do not infer a remedy from the heading alone.

Mapped Rules: Rule 107, Rule 108, Rule 109, Rule 110, Rule 111, Rule 112, Rule 113, Rule 114, Rule 115, Rule 116, Rule 117, Rule 118, Rule 119, Rule 120, Rule 121, Rule 122, Rule 123, Rule 124, Rule 125, Rule 126, Rule 127, Rule 128, Rule 129, Rule 130, Rule 131, Rule 132, Rule 133, Rule 134, Rule 135, Rule 136, Rule 137, Rule 138, Rule 139, Rule 140, Rule 141, Rule 142, Rule 143, Rule 144, Rule 145, Rule 146, Rule 147, Rule 148, Rule 149, Rule 150, Rule 151, Rule 152, Rule 153, Rule 154, Rule 155, Rule 156, Rule 157, Rule 158, Rule 159, Rule 160, Rule 161, Rule 162, Rule 163, Rule 164, Rule 165, Rule 166, Rule 167, Rule 168, Rule 169, Rule 170, Rule 171, Rule 172, Rule 173, Rule 174, Rule 175, Rule 176 | Official source: section 71.

Section 72: Establishment, maintenance of rescue services and vocational training

Current statutory text

72. Establishment, maintenance  of rescue  services and  vocational training.—The  Central
Government may prescribe vocational training and rescue and recovery services for persons employed in
a mine.

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2. Identify the covered establishment, worker category, appropriate Government and event date.
3. Establish whether the mine, person and operation fall within the Code and Central rules or a valid exemption.
4. Convert each statutory condition and proviso into an assigned action with a clear deadline.
5. Appoint qualified statutory personnel and maintain current competency, medical and training records.
6. Map the enabling Rule, form, Schedule, authority and any sector-specific notification.
7. Provide rescue station/room coverage, tested breathing apparatus, communication, tracings and emergency teams.
8. Preserve the decision memo, worker communication, register, portal acknowledgement and payment or inspection evidence.
9. Run initial, refresher, special and post-absence training before assigning hazardous work.
10. Record exceptions, non-compliance consequences, remedy, appeal forum and limitation period.

Applicable Central Rules immediately below the provision

Consequence, remedy and limitation

Identify the substantive default first, then separately map arrears or benefit, interest/damages, administrative penalty, prosecution, compounding, company/officer liability, forum, appeal and limitation. Do not infer a remedy from the heading alone.

Mapped Rules: Rule 123, Rule 124, Rule 125, Rule 126, Rule 127, Rule 128, Rule 129, Rule 130, Rule 131, Rule 132, Rule 133, Rule 134, Rule 135, Rule 136, Rule 137, Rule 138, Rule 139, Rule 140, Rule 141, Rule 142, Rule 143, Rule 144, Rule 145, Rule 146, Rule 147, Rule 148, Rule 149, Rule 150, Rule 151, Rule 152, Rule 153, Rule 154, Rule 155, Rule 156, Rule 157, Rule 158, Rule 159, Rule 160, Rule 161, Rule 162, Rule 163, Rule 164, Rule 165, Rule 166, Rule 167, Rule 168, Rule 169, Rule 170, Rule 171, Rule 172, Rule 173, Rule 174, Rule 175, Rule 176 | Official source: section 72.

Section 73: Decision of question whether a mine is covered under this Code

Current statutory text

73. Decision of question whether a mine is covered under this Code.—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 WORKERS

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2. Confirm the sector definition, premises, process and statutory person in ultimate control.
3. Establish whether the mine, person and operation fall within the Code and Central rules or a valid exemption.
4. Map the sector-specific registration, manager/agent/occupier appointment, technical standard and welfare duty.
5. Appoint qualified statutory personnel and maintain current competency, medical and training records.
6. Maintain shift, competence, medical, machinery, inspection and contractor records required for the activity.
7. Provide rescue station/room coverage, tested breathing apparatus, communication, tracings and emergency teams.
8. Integrate emergency, accident-reporting and worker-participation controls into site operations.
9. Run initial, refresher, special and post-absence training before assigning hazardous work.
10. Test closure, prohibition, improvement direction, appeal and offence exposure against the current Rules and Schedules.

Applicable Central Rules immediately below the provision

Consequence, remedy and limitation

Identify the substantive default first, then separately map arrears or benefit, interest/damages, administrative penalty, prosecution, compounding, company/officer liability, forum, appeal and limitation. Do not infer a remedy from the heading alone.

Mapped Rules: Rule 107, Rule 108, Rule 109, Rule 110, Rule 111, Rule 112, Rule 113, Rule 114, Rule 115, Rule 116, Rule 117, Rule 118, Rule 119, Rule 120, Rule 121, Rule 122, Rule 123, Rule 124, Rule 125, Rule 126, Rule 127, Rule 128, Rule 129, Rule 130, Rule 131, Rule 132, Rule 133, Rule 134, Rule 135, Rule 136, Rule 137, Rule 138, Rule 139, Rule 140, Rule 141, Rule 142, Rule 143, Rule 144, Rule 145, Rule 146, Rule 147, Rule 148, Rule 149, Rule 150, Rule 151, Rule 152, Rule 153, Rule 154, Rule 155, Rule 156, Rule 157, Rule 158, Rule 159, Rule 160, Rule 161, Rule 162, Rule 163, Rule 164, Rule 165, Rule 166, Rule 167, Rule 168, Rule 169, Rule 170, Rule 171, Rule 172, Rule 173, Rule 174, Rule 175, Rule 176 | Official source: section 73.

Section 74: Licence to industrial premises and person

Current statutory text

74. Licence to industrial premises and person.—(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 licence.

   (2) Subject to the provisions 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 premises.

   (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:—

       (a) the suitability of the place or premises which is proposed to be used for the manufacture of
   beedi or cigar or both;

       (b) previous experience of the applicant or he has employed experienced person or has entered into
   agreement with the experienced person for employment for the period of licence;

       (c) the financial resources of the applicant including his financial capacity to meet 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 himself or in benami of any
   other person;

       (e) welfare of the labour in the locality, the interest of the public generally and such other matters
   as may be prescribed by the State Government.

   (5) Subject to the provisions of section 119, a licence granted under the said section for the purposes of
this section shall be valid for five years and may be renewed thereafter.

   (6) Subject to the provisions of section 119, an application for the renewal of a licence 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:

   Provided that the authority referred to in sub-section (1) of section 119 shall not grant or 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 may 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).

   (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 licence.

   (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 section.

   (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 refusal.

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2. Test the establishment, activity, worker-count and sector thresholds that trigger registration or licensing.
3. Confirm whether the establishment, contractor or premises falls within the relevant threshold and jurisdiction.
4. Identify the competent registering or licensing officer and the Central/State jurisdiction before filing.
5. Use the prescribed electronic form and attach identity, address, constitution and work-order evidence.
6. Map the prescribed application, attachments, fee, security, validity, renewal and amendment events.
7. Track completeness, statutory processing period, deemed outcome where expressly provided, and portal acknowledgement.
8. Keep the certificate or licence displayed and reconcile contractor, migrant-worker and location data to the approved particulars.
9. Update material changes within the prescribed period; registration or licence is not transferable unless law says otherwise.
10. Track refusal, suspension, revocation, appeal, limitation and the consequences of operating without valid authority.

Applicable Central Rules immediately below the provision

No direct Central Rule is mapped. Check general procedural Rules, State Rules and later notifications.

Consequence, remedy and limitation

Identify the substantive default first, then separately map arrears or benefit, interest/damages, administrative penalty, prosecution, compounding, company/officer liability, forum, appeal and limitation. Do not infer a remedy from the heading alone.

Mapped Rules: No direct Central Rule mapped in the repository concordance | Official source: section 74.

Section 75: Appeals

Current statutory text

75. Appeals.—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 Part.

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2. Identify the covered establishment, worker category, appropriate Government and event date.
3. Identify the covered establishment, worker category, appropriate Government and sector-specific overlay.
4. Convert each statutory condition and proviso into an assigned action with a clear deadline.
5. Break the provision into trigger, actor, action, timing, evidence and consequence before configuring the process.
6. Map the enabling Rule, form, Schedule, authority and any sector-specific notification.
7. Read the corresponding Central Rule, prescribed form, Schedule and notified authority together.
8. Preserve the decision memo, worker communication, register, portal acknowledgement and payment or inspection evidence.
9. Create a named control owner and maker-checker evidence trail.
10. Record exceptions, non-compliance consequences, remedy, appeal forum and limitation period.

Applicable Central Rules immediately below the provision

No direct Central Rule is mapped. Check general procedural Rules, State Rules and later notifications.

Consequence, remedy and limitation

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Mapped Rules: No direct Central Rule mapped in the repository concordance | Official source: section 75.

Section 76: Permission to work by employees outside industrial premises

Current statutory text

76. Permission to work by employees outside industrial premises.—(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 prescribed.

   (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 prescribed.

   (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:

   Provided that nothing in this sub-section shall apply to any worker who is given raw material by an
employer or a contractor to make beedi or cigar or both at home.

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2. Identify the covered establishment, worker category, appropriate Government and event date.
3. Identify the sector-specific standard and the actual exposure, occupancy or hygiene condition.
4. Convert each statutory condition and proviso into an assigned action with a clear deadline.
5. Use competent measurements and calibrated instruments where a numerical or exposure standard applies.
6. Map the enabling Rule, form, Schedule, authority and any sector-specific notification.
7. Apply elimination, substitution and engineering control before relying only on personal protective equipment.
8. Preserve the decision memo, worker communication, register, portal acknowledgement and payment or inspection evidence.
9. Define cleaning, ventilation, maintenance, waste-disposal and inspection frequencies.
10. Record exceptions, non-compliance consequences, remedy, appeal forum and limitation period.

Applicable Central Rules immediately below the provision

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Consequence, remedy and limitation

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Mapped Rules: No direct Central Rule mapped in the repository concordance | Official source: section 76.

Section 77: Part not to apply to self-employed persons in private dwelling houses

Current statutory text

77. Part not to apply to self-employed persons in private dwelling houses.—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 him.

   Explanation.—For the purposes of this section,—

        (i) “family” does not include child, as defined in the Child and Adolescent (Prohibition and
   Regulation) Act, 1986 (61 of 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 WORKERS

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2. Identify the covered establishment, worker category, appropriate Government and event date.
3. Identify the covered establishment, worker category, appropriate Government and sector-specific overlay.
4. Convert each statutory condition and proviso into an assigned action with a clear deadline.
5. Break the provision into trigger, actor, action, timing, evidence and consequence before configuring the process.
6. Map the enabling Rule, form, Schedule, authority and any sector-specific notification.
7. Read the corresponding Central Rule, prescribed form, Schedule and notified authority together.
8. Preserve the decision memo, worker communication, register, portal acknowledgement and payment or inspection evidence.
9. Create a named control owner and maker-checker evidence trail.
10. Record exceptions, non-compliance consequences, remedy, appeal forum and limitation period.

Applicable Central Rules immediately below the provision

No direct Central Rule is mapped. Check general procedural Rules, State Rules and later notifications.

Consequence, remedy and limitation

Identify the substantive default first, then separately map arrears or benefit, interest/damages, administrative penalty, prosecution, compounding, company/officer liability, forum, appeal and limitation. Do not infer a remedy from the heading alone.

Mapped Rules: No direct Central Rule mapped in the repository concordance | Official source: section 77.

Section 78: Prohibition of employment of certain persons in certain building or other construction work

Current statutory text

78. Prohibition of employment of certain persons in certain building or other construction
work.—No person, about whom the employer knows or has reasons to believe that he is a 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

                                       FACTORIES

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2. Confirm the sector definition, premises, process and statutory person in ultimate control.
3. Identify the covered establishment, worker category, appropriate Government and sector-specific overlay.
4. Map the sector-specific registration, manager/agent/occupier appointment, technical standard and welfare duty.
5. Break the provision into trigger, actor, action, timing, evidence and consequence before configuring the process.
6. Maintain shift, competence, medical, machinery, inspection and contractor records required for the activity.
7. Read the corresponding Central Rule, prescribed form, Schedule and notified authority together.
8. Integrate emergency, accident-reporting and worker-participation controls into site operations.
9. Create a named control owner and maker-checker evidence trail.
10. Test closure, prohibition, improvement direction, appeal and offence exposure against the current Rules and Schedules.

Applicable Central Rules immediately below the provision

No direct Central Rule is mapped. Check general procedural Rules, State Rules and later notifications.

Consequence, remedy and limitation

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Mapped Rules: No direct Central Rule mapped in the repository concordance | Official source: section 78.

Section 79: Approval and licensing of factories

Current statutory text

79. Approval and licensing of factories.—(1) The appropriate Government may make rules in
respect of factory or class or description of factories for—

       (a) the submission of plans including specifications, nature and certification thereof;

       (b) the previous permission for the  site on which the factory  is to be situated and for the
   construction or extension thereof; and

       (c) subject to the provision of sub-section 119, licensing and renewal thereof including fees to be
   payable for such, licensing and renewal, if required, as the case may be.

   (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 granted.

   (3) Where a State Government or a Chief Inspector-cum-Facilitator refuses to grant permission 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 case.

   Explanation.—A factory shall not be deemed to be extended within the meaning of this 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 health.

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2. Identify the covered establishment, worker category, appropriate Government and event date.
3. Identify the covered establishment, worker category, appropriate Government and sector-specific overlay.
4. Convert each statutory condition and proviso into an assigned action with a clear deadline.
5. Break the provision into trigger, actor, action, timing, evidence and consequence before configuring the process.
6. Map the enabling Rule, form, Schedule, authority and any sector-specific notification.
7. Read the corresponding Central Rule, prescribed form, Schedule and notified authority together.
8. Preserve the decision memo, worker communication, register, portal acknowledgement and payment or inspection evidence.
9. Create a named control owner and maker-checker evidence trail.
10. Record exceptions, non-compliance consequences, remedy, appeal forum and limitation period.

Applicable Central Rules immediately below the provision

No direct Central Rule is mapped. Check general procedural Rules, State Rules and later notifications.

Consequence, remedy and limitation

Identify the substantive default first, then separately map arrears or benefit, interest/damages, administrative penalty, prosecution, compounding, company/officer liability, forum, appeal and limitation. Do not infer a remedy from the heading alone.

Mapped Rules: No direct Central Rule mapped in the repository concordance | Official source: section 79.

Section 80: Liability of owner of premises in certain circumstances

Current statutory text

80. Liability of owner of premises in certain circumstances.—Where any premises or separate
buildings are leased to different occupiers for use 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
Government.

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2. Identify the covered establishment, worker category, appropriate Government and event date.
3. Identify the covered establishment, worker category, appropriate Government and sector-specific overlay.
4. Convert each statutory condition and proviso into an assigned action with a clear deadline.
5. Break the provision into trigger, actor, action, timing, evidence and consequence before configuring the process.
6. Map the enabling Rule, form, Schedule, authority and any sector-specific notification.
7. Read the corresponding Central Rule, prescribed form, Schedule and notified authority together.
8. Preserve the decision memo, worker communication, register, portal acknowledgement and payment or inspection evidence.
9. Create a named control owner and maker-checker evidence trail.
10. Record exceptions, non-compliance consequences, remedy, appeal forum and limitation period.

Applicable Central Rules immediately below the provision

No direct Central Rule is mapped. Check general procedural Rules, State Rules and later notifications.

Consequence, remedy and limitation

Identify the substantive default first, then separately map arrears or benefit, interest/damages, administrative penalty, prosecution, compounding, company/officer liability, forum, appeal and limitation. Do not infer a remedy from the heading alone.

Mapped Rules: No direct Central Rule mapped in the repository concordance | Official source: section 80.

Section 81: Power to apply Code to certain premises

Current statutory text

81. Power  to apply Code  to certain premises.—(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 factory.

   (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 worker.

   Explanation.—For the purposes of this section, “owner” shall include a lessee or mortgagee with
possession of the premises.

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2. Identify the covered establishment, worker category, appropriate Government and event date.
3. Identify the covered establishment, worker category, appropriate Government and sector-specific overlay.
4. Convert each statutory condition and proviso into an assigned action with a clear deadline.
5. Break the provision into trigger, actor, action, timing, evidence and consequence before configuring the process.
6. Map the enabling Rule, form, Schedule, authority and any sector-specific notification.
7. Read the corresponding Central Rule, prescribed form, Schedule and notified authority together.
8. Preserve the decision memo, worker communication, register, portal acknowledgement and payment or inspection evidence.
9. Create a named control owner and maker-checker evidence trail.
10. Record exceptions, non-compliance consequences, remedy, appeal forum and limitation period.

Applicable Central Rules immediately below the provision

No direct Central Rule is mapped. Check general procedural Rules, State Rules and later notifications.

Consequence, remedy and limitation

Identify the substantive default first, then separately map arrears or benefit, interest/damages, administrative penalty, prosecution, compounding, company/officer liability, forum, appeal and limitation. Do not infer a remedy from the heading alone.

Mapped Rules: No direct Central Rule mapped in the repository concordance | Official source: section 81.

Section 82: Dangerous operations

Current statutory text

82. Dangerous operations.—The appropriate Government may by rules make the provisions relating
to any factory 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 be dangerous;

       (b) prohibiting or restricting the employment of pregnant women in the manufacturing process or
   operation;

       (c) the periodical medical examination before, or at any time during the employment 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, and any other
   requirement necessary for dangerous operations.

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2. Identify the hazard, exposed worker group, process and statutory duty holder before selecting the control.
3. Do not use sex-based exclusion unless a valid dangerous-operation restriction or risk-based legal condition applies.
4. Apply the prescribed engineering, medical, supervision, training, protective-equipment and emergency requirements.
5. For work before 6 a.m. or after 7 p.m., obtain consent and satisfy prescribed transport, security, supervision, welfare and grievance conditions.
6. Map the relevant Rule, Schedule, standard, licence condition and sector-specific authority direction.
7. Complete task-specific risk assessment, emergency response and harassment-prevention integration.
8. Report notifiable accidents, dangerous occurrences or diseases within the applicable time and preserve the incident file.
9. Ensure equal access to facilities, training, protective equipment and reporting channels.
10. Close root-cause actions and separately assess compensation, employment protection, inspection and penal consequences.

Applicable Central Rules immediately below the provision

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Consequence, remedy and limitation

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Mapped Rules: No direct Central Rule mapped in the repository concordance | Official source: section 82.

Section 83: Constitution of site appraisal committee

Current statutory text

83. Constitution of site appraisal committee.—(1) The appropriate Government may, constitute one
or more site appraisal committees 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
factory.

   (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 prescribed.

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2. Identify the covered establishment, worker category, appropriate Government and event date.
3. Identify the covered establishment, worker category, appropriate Government and sector-specific overlay.
4. Convert each statutory condition and proviso into an assigned action with a clear deadline.
5. Break the provision into trigger, actor, action, timing, evidence and consequence before configuring the process.
6. Map the enabling Rule, form, Schedule, authority and any sector-specific notification.
7. Read the corresponding Central Rule, prescribed form, Schedule and notified authority together.
8. Preserve the decision memo, worker communication, register, portal acknowledgement and payment or inspection evidence.
9. Create a named control owner and maker-checker evidence trail.
10. Record exceptions, non-compliance consequences, remedy, appeal forum and limitation period.

Applicable Central Rules immediately below the provision

No direct Central Rule is mapped. Check general procedural Rules, State Rules and later notifications.

Consequence, remedy and limitation

Identify the substantive default first, then separately map arrears or benefit, interest/damages, administrative penalty, prosecution, compounding, company/officer liability, forum, appeal and limitation. Do not infer a remedy from the heading alone.

Mapped Rules: No direct Central Rule mapped in the repository concordance | Official source: section 83.

Section 84: Compulsory disclosure of information by occupier

Current statutory text

84. Compulsory disclosure of information by occupier.—(1) The occupier of every factory
involving a hazardous process shall disclose in the 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 vicinity.

   (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 disposal.

   (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 place.

   (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 cancellation.

   (7) The occupier of a factory involving a hazardous process shall, with the previous approval 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 vicinity.

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2. Identify the covered establishment, worker category, appropriate Government and event date.
3. Identify the covered establishment, worker category, appropriate Government and sector-specific overlay.
4. Convert each statutory condition and proviso into an assigned action with a clear deadline.
5. Break the provision into trigger, actor, action, timing, evidence and consequence before configuring the process.
6. Map the enabling Rule, form, Schedule, authority and any sector-specific notification.
7. Read the corresponding Central Rule, prescribed form, Schedule and notified authority together.
8. Preserve the decision memo, worker communication, register, portal acknowledgement and payment or inspection evidence.
9. Create a named control owner and maker-checker evidence trail.
10. Record exceptions, non-compliance consequences, remedy, appeal forum and limitation period.

Applicable Central Rules immediately below the provision

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Consequence, remedy and limitation

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Mapped Rules: No direct Central Rule mapped in the repository concordance | Official source: section 84.

Section 85: Specific responsibility of the occupier in relation to hazardous processes

Current statutory text

85. Specific responsibility of the occupier in relation to hazardous processes.—Every occupier of a
factory involving any hazardous process shall—

       (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:

      Provided 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—

            (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 Government.

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2. Identify the hazard, exposed worker group, process and statutory duty holder before selecting the control.
3. Map every hazardous process, chemical, quantity and exposure route against the Schedules and later orders.
4. Apply the prescribed engineering, medical, supervision, training, protective-equipment and emergency requirements.
5. Complete site appraisal, process-safety information, worker disclosure and emergency planning before commissioning.
6. Map the relevant Rule, Schedule, standard, licence condition and sector-specific authority direction.
7. Measure exposure with competent laboratories and validated sampling plans.
8. Report notifiable accidents, dangerous occurrences or diseases within the applicable time and preserve the incident file.
9. Investigate exceedances and imminent danger immediately and protect worker reporting rights.
10. Close root-cause actions and separately assess compensation, employment protection, inspection and penal consequences.

Applicable Central Rules immediately below the provision

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Consequence, remedy and limitation

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Mapped Rules: No direct Central Rule mapped in the repository concordance | Official source: section 85.

Section 86: National Board to inquire into certain situations

Current statutory text

86. National Board to inquire into certain situations.—(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 nature.

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3. Identify the covered establishment, worker category, appropriate Government and sector-specific overlay.
4. Convert each statutory condition and proviso into an assigned action with a clear deadline.
5. Break the provision into trigger, actor, action, timing, evidence and consequence before configuring the process.
6. Map the enabling Rule, form, Schedule, authority and any sector-specific notification.
7. Read the corresponding Central Rule, prescribed form, Schedule and notified authority together.
8. Preserve the decision memo, worker communication, register, portal acknowledgement and payment or inspection evidence.
9. Create a named control owner and maker-checker evidence trail.
10. Record exceptions, non-compliance consequences, remedy, appeal forum and limitation period.

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Mapped Rules: No direct Central Rule mapped in the repository concordance | Official source: section 86.

Section 87: Emergency standards

Current statutory text

87. Emergency standards.—(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 the 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 processes.

   (2) The emergency standards laid down under sub-section (1) shall, until they are incorporated 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 Code.

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2. Identify the hazard, exposed worker group, process and statutory duty holder before selecting the control.
3. Map every hazardous process, chemical, quantity and exposure route against the Schedules and later orders.
4. Apply the prescribed engineering, medical, supervision, training, protective-equipment and emergency requirements.
5. Complete site appraisal, process-safety information, worker disclosure and emergency planning before commissioning.
6. Map the relevant Rule, Schedule, standard, licence condition and sector-specific authority direction.
7. Measure exposure with competent laboratories and validated sampling plans.
8. Report notifiable accidents, dangerous occurrences or diseases within the applicable time and preserve the incident file.
9. Investigate exceedances and imminent danger immediately and protect worker reporting rights.
10. Close root-cause actions and separately assess compensation, employment protection, inspection and penal consequences.

Applicable Central Rules immediately below the provision

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Consequence, remedy and limitation

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Mapped Rules: No direct Central Rule mapped in the repository concordance | Official source: section 87.

Section 88: Permissible limits of exposure of chemicals and toxic substances

Current statutory text

88. Permissible limits of exposure of chemicals and toxic substances.—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 Government.

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2. Identify the covered establishment, worker category, appropriate Government and event date.
3. Map every hazardous process, chemical, quantity and exposure route against the Schedules and later orders.
4. Convert each statutory condition and proviso into an assigned action with a clear deadline.
5. Complete site appraisal, process-safety information, worker disclosure and emergency planning before commissioning.
6. Map the enabling Rule, form, Schedule, authority and any sector-specific notification.
7. Measure exposure with competent laboratories and validated sampling plans.
8. Preserve the decision memo, worker communication, register, portal acknowledgement and payment or inspection evidence.
9. Investigate exceedances and imminent danger immediately and protect worker reporting rights.
10. Record exceptions, non-compliance consequences, remedy, appeal forum and limitation period.

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Consequence, remedy and limitation

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Mapped Rules: No direct Central Rule mapped in the repository concordance | Official source: section 88.

Section 89: Right of workers to warn about imminent danger

Current statutory text

89. Right of workers to warn about imminent danger.—(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-Facilitator.

   (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-Facilitator.

   (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 final.

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3. Stabilise the emergency and arrange rescue, first aid and medical treatment before administrative reporting.
4. Map the sector-specific registration, manager/agent/occupier appointment, technical standard and welfare duty.
5. Classify death, injury, lost-time incapacity, dangerous occurrence or occupational disease against the statutory trigger.
6. Maintain shift, competence, medical, machinery, inspection and contractor records required for the activity.
7. Notify every prescribed authority, police/family where applicable, in the required form and within the specific clock.
8. Integrate emergency, accident-reporting and worker-participation controls into site operations.
9. Preserve the first incident record, scene evidence, witness accounts, equipment state and later corrections.
10. Test closure, prohibition, improvement direction, appeal and offence exposure against the current Rules and Schedules.

Applicable Central Rules immediately below the provision

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Mapped Rules: No direct Central Rule mapped in the repository concordance | Official source: section 89.

Section 90: Appeal against the order of Inspector-cum-Facilitator in case of factory

Current statutory text

90. Appeal against the order of Inspector-cum-Facilitator in case of factory.—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 appeals.

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2. Verify appointment, territorial/subject jurisdiction and the statutory power relied on by the Inspector-cum-Facilitator.
3. Verify the officer’s jurisdiction, appointment and the statutory purpose of the visit, sample, survey or inquiry.
4. Nominate an authorised response owner without obstructing lawful entry, examination, sampling or document access.
5. Nominate an authorised site contact while preserving worker access and non-retaliation rights.
6. Index the requested registers, licences, worker records, contractor files and electronic data before production.
7. Provide accurate documents and facilities; record items taken, samples sealed and statements made.
8. Record every item supplied, statement made, sample taken, direction issued and corrective action closed.
9. Assess improvement, prohibition or inquiry directions immediately and diarise appeal or compliance periods.
10. Escalate privilege, confidentiality, self-incrimination, appeal and prosecution issues through the proper legal channel.

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Mapped Rules: No direct Central Rule mapped in the repository concordance | Official source: section 90.

Section 91: Power to make rules to exempt

Current statutory text

91. Power to make rules to exempt.—(1) The appropriate Government may make rules,—

       (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 declared;

       (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 establishments.

                               PART VIII

                                    PLANTATION

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3. Identify the covered establishment, worker category, appropriate Government and sector-specific overlay.
4. Convert each statutory condition and proviso into an assigned action with a clear deadline.
5. Break the provision into trigger, actor, action, timing, evidence and consequence before configuring the process.
6. Map the enabling Rule, form, Schedule, authority and any sector-specific notification.
7. Read the corresponding Central Rule, prescribed form, Schedule and notified authority together.
8. Preserve the decision memo, worker communication, register, portal acknowledgement and payment or inspection evidence.
9. Create a named control owner and maker-checker evidence trail.
10. Record exceptions, non-compliance consequences, remedy, appeal forum and limitation period.

Applicable Central Rules immediately below the provision

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Consequence, remedy and limitation

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Mapped Rules: No direct Central Rule mapped in the repository concordance | Official source: section 91.

Section 92: Facilities for workers in plantation

Current statutory text

92. Facilities for workers in plantation.— (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—

       (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,—

            (i) an establishment may 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

             (ii) a group of establishments may agree to pool their resources for setting up of common
      crèche;

       (c) educational facilities for the children of the workers employed in the plantation where the
   children between the ages of six to twelve of the workers exceed twenty-five in number;

       (d) health facilities to every worker employed in the plantation (including his family) or provide
   coverage under the Employees State Insurance Act, 1948 (34 of 1948); and


       (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 situated.

   Explanation.—For the purposes of this sub-section—

        (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 Constitution.

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3. Identify the covered establishment, worker category, appropriate Government and sector-specific overlay.
4. Map the sector-specific registration, manager/agent/occupier appointment, technical standard and welfare duty.
5. Break the provision into trigger, actor, action, timing, evidence and consequence before configuring the process.
6. Maintain shift, competence, medical, machinery, inspection and contractor records required for the activity.
7. Read the corresponding Central Rule, prescribed form, Schedule and notified authority together.
8. Integrate emergency, accident-reporting and worker-participation controls into site operations.
9. Create a named control owner and maker-checker evidence trail.
10. Test closure, prohibition, improvement direction, appeal and offence exposure against the current Rules and Schedules.

Applicable Central Rules immediately below the provision

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Consequence, remedy and limitation

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Mapped Rules: No direct Central Rule mapped in the repository concordance | Official source: section 92.

Section 93: Safety

Current statutory text

93. Safety.—(1) In every plantation, arrangement shall be made by the employer to provide for the
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 chemicals.

   (3) The employer of a plantation shall appoint persons possessing the prescribed qualifications to
supervise the use, handling, storage and transportation of insecticides, chemicals and toxic substances in
his plantation.

   (4) Every employer of a plantation shall ensure that every worker in plantation employed 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 Government.

   (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 record.

   (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 Government.

   (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 plantation.

   (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 PENALTIES

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3. Identify the covered establishment, worker category, appropriate Government and sector-specific overlay.
4. Apply the prescribed engineering, medical, supervision, training, protective-equipment and emergency requirements.
5. Break the provision into trigger, actor, action, timing, evidence and consequence before configuring the process.
6. Map the relevant Rule, Schedule, standard, licence condition and sector-specific authority direction.
7. Read the corresponding Central Rule, prescribed form, Schedule and notified authority together.
8. Report notifiable accidents, dangerous occurrences or diseases within the applicable time and preserve the incident file.
9. Create a named control owner and maker-checker evidence trail.
10. Close root-cause actions and separately assess compensation, employment protection, inspection and penal consequences.

Applicable Central Rules immediately below the provision

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Consequence, remedy and limitation

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Mapped Rules: No direct Central Rule mapped in the repository concordance | Official source: section 93.