No.32 OF
1966
[30th November, 1966]
An Act to provide for the
welfare of the workers in beedi and cigar establishments and to
regulate the conditions of their work and for matters connected
therewith.
Comment: The aim of this Act is Act to
provide for the welfare of the workers in beedi and cigar
establishments and to regulate the conditions of their
work.
BE it enacted by
Parliament in the Seventeenth year of the Republic of India as
follows:--
1.Short
title, extent and commencement.- (1) This Act may be called the
Beedi and Cigar Workers (Conditions of Employment) Act,
1966.
(2) It extends to the whole of India except the State
of Jammu and Kashmir.
(3) It shall come into force in a State
on such date as the State Government may, by notification in the
Official Gazette, appoint and different dates may be appointed by
the State Government for different areas and for different
provisions of this Act.
2.Definitions.- In this
Act, unless the context otherwise requires,-
(a) "adult"
means a person who has completed eighteen years of age;
(b)
"child" means a person who has not completed fourteen years of
age;
(c) "competent authority" means any authority authorised
by the State Government by notification in the Official Gazette to
perform all or any of the functions of the competent authority under
this Act and for such areas as may be specified therein;
(d)
"contractor" means a person who, in relation to a manufacturing
process, undertakes to produce a given result by executing the work
through contract labour or who engages labour for any manufacturing
process in a private dwelling house and includes a sub-contractor,
agent munshi, thekedar or sattedar;
(e) "contract labour"
means any persons engaged or employed in any premises by or through
a contractor, with or without the knowledge of the employer, in any
manufacturing process;
(f) "employee" means a person employed
directly or through any agency, whether for wages or not, in any
establishment to do any work, skilled, unskilled, manual or
clerical, and includes--
(i) any labour who is given raw
materials by an employer or a contractor for being made into beedi
or cigar or both at home (hereinafter referred to in this Act as
"home worker"), and
(ii) any person not employed by an
employer or a contractor but working with the permission of, or
under agreement with, the employer or contractor;
(g)
"employer" means,--
(a) in relation to contract labour, the
principal employer, and
(b) in relation to other labour, the
person who has the ultimate control over the affairs of any
establishment or who has, by reason of his advancing money,
supplying goods or otherwise, a substantial interest in the control
of the affairs of any establishment, and includes any other person
to whom the affairs of the establishment are entrusted, whether such
other person is called the managing agent, manager, superintendent
or by any other name;
(h) "establishment" means any place or
premises including the precincts thereof in which or in any part of
which any manufacturing process connected with the making of beedi
or cigar or both is being, or is ordinarily, carried on and includes
an industrial premises;
(i) "industrial premises" means any
place or premises (not being a private dwelling house), including
the precincts thereof, in which or in any part of which any industry
or manufacturing process connected with the making of beedi or cigar
or both is being, or is ordinarily, carried on with or without the
aid of power;
(j) "Inspector" means an Inspector appointed
under sub-section (1) of section 6;
(k) "manufacturing
process" means any process for, or incidental to, making finishing
or packing or otherwise treating any article or substance with a
view to its use, sale, transport, delivery or disposal as beedi or
cigar or both;
(l) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules
made by the State Government under this Act;
(m) "principal
employer" means a person for whom or on whose behalf any contract
labour is engaged or employed in an establishment;
(n)
"private dwelling house" means a house in which persons engaged in
the manufacture of beedi or cigar or both reside;
(o) "State
Government", in relation to a Union territory, means the
Administrator thereof;
(p) "week" means a period of seven
days beginning at midnight on Saturday;
(q) "young person"
means a person who has completed fourteen years of age but has not
completed eighteen years of age.
3.Industrial premises to be
licensed.- Save as otherwise provided in this Act, no employer
shall use or allow to be used any place or premises as an industrial
premises unless he holds a valid licence issued under this Act and
no such premises shall be used except in accordance with the terms
and conditions of such licence.
4.Licences.- (1) Any person
who intends to use or allow to be used any place or premises as
industrial premises shall make an application in writing to the
competent authority, in such form and on payment of such fees as may
be prescribed, for a licence to use, or allow to be used, such
premises as an industrial premises.
(2) 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.
(3) The competent authority
shall, in deciding whether to grant or refuse a licence, have regard
to the following matters:--
(a) the suitability of the place
or premises which is proposed to be used for the manufacture of
beedi or cigar or both;
(b) the previous experience of the
applicant;
(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.
(4) (a) A licence granted under this section
shall not be valid beyond the financial year in which it is granted
but may be renewed from financial year to financial year.
(b)
An application for the renewal of a licence granted under this Act
shall be made at least thirty days before the expiry of the period
thereof, on payment of such fees as may be prescribed, 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.
(c) The competent
authority shall, in deciding whether to renew a licence or to refuse
a renewal thereof, have regard to the matters specified in
sub-section (3).
(5) The competent authority shall not grant
or renew a licence unless it is satisfied that the provisions of
this Act and the rules made thereunder have been substantially
complied with.
(6) The competent authority may, after giving
the holder of a licence an opportunity of being heard, cancel or
suspend any licence granted or renewed under this Act if it appears
to it that such licence has been obtained by misrepresentation of
fraud or that the licensee has contravened or failed to comply with
any of the provisions of this Act or the rules made thereunder or
any of the terms or conditions of the licence.
(7) The State
Government may issue in writing to a competent authority such
directions of a general character as that Government may consider
necessary in respect of any matter relating to the grant or renewal
of licences under this section.
(8) Subject to the foregoing
provisions of this section, the competent authority may grant or
renew licences under this Act on such terms and conditions as it may
determine and where the competent 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.
5.Appeals.- Any person
aggrieved by the decision of the competent authority refusing to
grant or renew a licence or cancelling or suspending a licence may,
within such time and on payment of such fees, not exceeding twenty
rupees, as may be prescribed, appeal to such authority as the State
Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify in
this behalf, 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.
6.Inspectors.- (1) The
State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette,
appoint such of its officers or such officers of any local authority
as it thinks fit to the Inspectors for the purposes of this Act and
may assign to them such local limits as it may think fit.
(2)
The State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette,
appoint any person to be a Chief Inspector who shall exercise the
powers of an Inspector throughout the State.
(3) Every Chief
Inspector and Inspector shall be deemed to be a public servant
within the meaning of section 21 of the Indian Penal Code(45 of
1860.).
7.Powers of
Inspectors.- (1) Subject to any rules made by the Government in
this behalf, an Inspector may, within the local limits for which he
is appointed,--
(a) make such examination and hold such
inquiry as may be necessary for ascertaining whether the provisions
of this Act have been or are being complied with in any place or
premises:
Provided that no person
shall be compelled under this section to answer any question or to
give any evidence which may tend to incriminate himself;
(b)
require the production of any prescribed register and any other
document relating to the manufacture of beedi or cigar or
both;
(c) enter, with such assistants as he thinks fit, at
all times, any place or premises including the residences of
employees if he has reasonable grounds for suspecting that any
manufacturing process is being carried on or is ordinarily carried
on in any such place or premises;
(d) exercise such other
powers as may be prescribed.
(2) If an Inspector has
reasonable grounds for suspecting that any manufacturing process is
being carried on in any establishment in contravention of the
provisions of this Act, he may, after giving due notice to the
employer or, in the absence of the employer, to the occupier, either
such establishment with such assistants, if any, as he may think
fit.
(3) Every employer or occupier shall accord to the Chief
Inspector or the Inspector, as the case may be, all reasonable
facilities in the discharge of his duties under this Act.
8.Cleanliness.- Every
industrial premises shall be kept clean and free from effluvia
arising from any drain, privy or other nuisance and shall also
maintain such standard of cleanliness including white washing colour
washing, varnishing or painting, as may be prescribed.
9.Ventilation.- (1) For the
purpose of preventing injury to the health of the persons working
therein, every industry premises shall maintain such standards of
lighting, ventilation and temperature, as may be
prescribed.
(2) Wherever dust or fume or other impurity of
such a nature and to such an extent as is likely to be injurious or
offensive to the persons employed in any industrial premises is
given off by reason of the manufacturing process carried on in such
premises, the competent authority may require the employer to take
such effective measures as may prevent the inhalation of such dust,
fume or other impurity and accumulation thereof in any work
room.
10.Overcrowding.- (1) No
room in any industrial premises shall be overcrowded to an extent
injurious to the health of the persons employed therein.
(2)
Without prejudice to the generality of sub-section (1), there shall
be in any work room of such premises at least four and a quarter
cubic metres of space for every person employed therein, and for the
purposes of this sub-section, no account shall be taken of any space
which is more than three metres above the level of the floor of the
work room.
11.Drinking water.- (1) The
employer shall make in every industry premises effective
arrangements to provide and maintain at suitable points conveniently
situated for all persons employed therein, a sufficient supply of
wholesome drinking water.
(2) All such points shall be
legibly marked "drinking water" in a language understood by the
majority of the persons employed in the industrial premises and no
such point shall be situated within six metres of any washing place,
urinal or latrine except with the prior approval in writing of the
competent authority.
12.Latrines and urinals.-
(1) In every industrial premises, sufficient latrine and urinal
accommodation of such types as may be prescribed shall be provided
and shall be so conveniently situated as may be accessible to the
employees at all times while they are in the industrial
premises:
Provided that it shall not be necessary to provide
separate urinals in industrial premises where less than fifty
persons are employed or where the latrines are connected to a
water-borne sewage system.
(a) prescribing the
location and the standards in respect of construction,
accommodation, furniture and other equipment of rooms to be provided
under this section;
(b) requiring the provision in any
industrial premises to which this section applies, of additional
facilities for the care of children belonging to female employees,
including suitable provision of facilities for washing and changing
their clothing;
(c) requiring the provision in any industrial
premises of free milk or refreshment or both for such
children;
(d) requiring that facilities shall be given in any
industrial premises for the mothers of such children to feed them at
necessary intervals.
15.First aid.- Every
industrial premises shall provide such first aid facilities as may
be prescribed.
16.Canteens.- The State
Government may, by rules, require the employer to provide and
maintain in every industrial premises wherein not less than two
hundred and fifty employees are ordinarily employed, a canteen for
the use of the employees.
17.Working hours.- No
employee shall be required or allowed to work in any industrial
premises for more than nine hours in any day or for more than
forty-eight hours in any week:
Provided that any audit
employee may be allowed to work in such industrial premises for any
period in excess of the limit fixed under this section subject to
the payment of overtime wages if the period of work, including
overtime work, does not exceed ten hours in any day and in the
aggregate fifty-four hours in any week.
18.Wages fee overtime
work.- (1) Where any employee employed in any industrial
premises is required to work overtime, he shall be entitled in
respect of such overtime work, to wages at the rate of twice his
ordinary rate of wages.
(2) Where the employees in an
industrial premises are paid on a piece-rate basis, the overtime
rate shall be calculated, for the purposes of this section, at the
time rates which shall be as nearly as possible equivalent to the
daily average of their full time earning for the days on which they
had actually worked during the week immediately proceeding the week
in which the overtime work has been done.
(3) For the
purposes of this section, "ordinary rates of wages" means the basic
wages plus such allowance, including the cash equivalent of the
advantage accruing through the concessional sale to the employees of
foodgrains and other articles as the employee is for the time being
entitled to but does not include bonus.
(4) The cash
equivalent of the advantage accruing through the concessional sale
to an employee of foodgrains and other articles shall be computed as
often as may be prescribed on the basis of the maximum quantity of
foodgrains and other articles admissible to a standard
family.
Explanation 1.--"Standard family" means a family
consisting of the employee, his or her spouse and two children
requiring in all three adult consumption units.
Explanation
II.--"Audit consumption units" means the consumption unit of a male
above the age of fourteen years; and the consumption unit of a
female above the age of fourteen years and that of a child shall be
calculated at the rate of eight-tenths and six-tenths, respectively,
of one adult consumption unit.
19.Interval for rest.- The
periods of work for employees in an industrial premises each day
shall be so fixed that no period shall exceed five hours and that no
employee shall work for more than five hours before he has had an
interval for rest of at least half an hour.
20.Spread over.- The
periods of work of an employee in an industrial premises shall be so
arranged that inclusive of his intervals for rest under section 19,
they shall not spread over more than ten and a half hours in any
day:
Provided that the Chief Inspector may, for reasons to be
specified in writing increase the spread over to twelve
hours.
21.Weekly
holidays.- (1) Every industrial premises shall remain entirely
closed, except for wetting of beedi or tobacco leaves, on one day in
the week which day shall be specified by the employer in a notice
exhibited in a conspicuous place in the industrial premises and the
day so specified shall not be altered by the employer more often
than once in three months and except with the previous written
permission of the Chief Inspector.
(2) Notwithstanding
anything contained in sub-section (1), an employee employed in the
said premises for wetting of beedi or tobacco leaves on the day on
which it remains closed in pursuance of sub-section (1), shall be
allowed a substituted holiday on one of the three days immediately
before or after the said day.
(3) For a holiday under this
section, an employee shall be paid, notwithstanding any contract to
the contrary, at the rate equal to the daily average of his total
full time earnings for the days on which he had worked during the
week immediately preceding the holiday exclusive of any overtime
earnings and bonus but inclusive of dearness and other
allowances.
Explanation.--The expression "total full time
earnings" shall have the meaning assigned to it in section
27.
22.Notice of
periods of work.- (1) There shall be displayed and correctly
maintained in every industrial
premises a notice of
periods of work in such form and in such manner as may be
prescribed, showing clearly for every day the periods during which
the employees may be required to work.
be under the age stated
in such declaration, shall, for the purposes of this Act and the
rules made thereunder, be admissible as evidence of the age of that
employee.
31.Notice of
dismissal.- (1) No employer shall dispense with the services of
an employee who has been employed for a period of six months or
more, except for a reasonable cause, and without giving such
employee at least one month's notice or wages in lieu of such
notice.
Provided that such notice shall not be necessary if
the services of such employee are dispensed with on a charge of
misconduct supported by satisfactory evidence recorded at an inquiry
held by the employer for the purpose.
(2) (a) The employee
discharged, dismissed or retrenched may appeal to such authority and
within such time as may be prescribed either on the ground that
there was no reasonable cause for dispensing with his service or on
the ground that he had not been guilty of misconduct as held by the
employer or on the ground that such punishment of discharge or
dismissal was severe.
(b) The appellate authority may, after
giving notice in the prescribed manner to the employer and the
employee, dismiss the appeal or direct the reinstatement of the
employee with or without wages for the period during which he was
kept out of employment or direct payment of compensation without
reinstatement or grant such other relief as it deems fit in the
circumstances of the case.
(3) The decision of the appellate
authority shall be final and binding on both the parties and be
given effect to within such time as may be specified in the order of
the appellate authority.
32.Penalty for obstructing
Inspector.- Whoever obstructs the Chief Inspector or an
Inspector in the exercise of any powers conferred on him by or under
this Act, or fails to produce on demanded by the chief Inspector or
an Inspector any register or other document kept in his custody in
pursuance of this Act or of any rules made thereunder, or conceals
or prevents any employee in an industrial premises from appearing
before or being examined by the Chief Inspector or an Inspector,
shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extent to
three months, or with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees,
or with both.
33.General penalty for
offence.- (1) Save as otherwise expressly provided in this Act,
any person who contravenes any of the provisions of this Act or of
any rule made thereunder, or fails to pay wages or compensation in
accordance with any order of the appellate authority passed under
clause (b) of sub-section (2) of section 31, shall, be punishable,
for the first offence, with fine which may extend to two hundred and
fifty rupees and for a second or any subsequent offence with
imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than one month or
more than six months or with fine which shall not be less than one
hundred rupees or more than five hundred rupees or with
both.
(2) (a) Any employer who fails to reinstate any
employee in accordance with the order of the appellate authority
passed under clause (b) of sub-section (2) of section 31, shall be
punishable with fine which may extend to two hundred and fifty
rupees.
(b) Any employer, who, after having been convicted
under clause (a), continues, after the date of such conviction to
fail to reinstate an employee in accordance with the order mentioned
in that clause, shall be punishable, for each day of such default,
with fine which may extend to twenty rupees.
(c) Any Court
trying an offence punishable under this sub-section may direct that
the whole or any part of the fine, if realised, shall be paid, by
way of compensation, to the person, who, in its opinion, has been
injured by such failure.
(3) Notwithstanding anything
contained in the Payment of Wages Act, 1936(4 of 1936) with regard
to the definition of wages, any compensation required to be paid by
an employer under clause (b) of sub-section (2) of section 31 but
not paid by him shall be recoverable as delayed wages under the
provisions of that Act.
(4) It shall be no defence in a
prosecution of any person for the contravention of the provisions of
section 3 that any manufacturing process connected with the making
of beedi or cigar or both was carried on by such persons himself or
by any member of his family or by any other person living with or
dependent on such person.
34.Offences by Companies.-
(1) Where an offence under this Act has been committed by a company,
every person who, at the time the offence was committed, was
incharge of, and was responsible to, the company for the conduct of
the business of the company, as well as the company, shall be deemed
to be guilty of the offence and shall be liable to be proceeded
against and punished accordingly:
Provided that nothing
contained in this sub-section shall render any such person liable to
any punishment provided in this Act if he proves that the offence
was committed without his knowledge or that he exercised all due
diligence to prevent the commission of such offence.
(2)
Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), where an
offence under this Act has been committed by a company and it is
proved that the offence has been committed with the consent or
connivance of, or is attributable to, any neglect on the part of any
director, manager, secretary or other officer of the company, such
director, manager secretary or other officer shall also be deemed to
be guilty of that offence and shall be liable to be proceeded
against and punished accordingly.
Explanation.--For the
purposes of this section--
(a) "company" means any body
corporate and includes a firm, and other association of individuals;
and
(b) "director", in relation to a firm, means a partner in
the firm.
35.Indemnity.- (1) No suit,
prosecution or other legal proceedings shall lie against any person
for anything which is in good faith done or intended to be done
under this Act or any rule or order made thereunder.
(2) No
suit or other legal proceedings shall lie against the Government for
any damage caused or likely to be caused by anything which is in
good faith done or intended to be done in pursuance of this Act or
any rule or order made thereunder.
36.Cognizance of offences.-
(1) No Court shall take cognizance of any offence punishable under
this Act except upon a complaint made by, or with the previous
sanction in writing of the Chief Inspector or an Inspector within
three months of the date on which the alleged commission of the
offence came to the knowledge of the Inspector:
Provided that
where the offence consists of disobeying a written order made by the
competent authority, the Chief Inspector or an Inspector, complaint
thereof may be made within six months of the date on which the
offence is alleged to have been committed.
(2) No Court
inferior to that of a presidency magistrate or a magistrate of the
first shall try any offence punishable under this Act.
37.Application of the
industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Act, 1946 and the Maternity
Benefit Act, 1961.- (1) The provisions of the Industrial
Employment (Standing Orders) Act, 1946(20 of 1946) shall apply to
every industrial premises wherein fifty or more persons are employed
or were employed on any one day of t he preceding twelve months as
if such industrial premises were an industrial establishment to
which that Act has been applied by a notification under sub-section
(3) of section 1 thereof, and as if the employee in the said
premises were a workman within the meaning of that Act.
(2)
Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), the State
Government may, after giving not less than two months' notice of its
intention so to do, by notification in the Official Gazette, apply
all or any of the provisions of the Industrial Employment (Standing
Orders) Act, 1946(20 of 1946), to any industrial
(b) the rejection by the
employer of beedi or cigar or both by an employee,
(c) the
payment of wages for the beedi or cigar or both rejected by the
employer,
shall be settled by such authority and in such
summary manner as the State Government may by rules specify in this
behalf.
(3) Any person aggrieved by a settlement made by the
authority specified under sub-section (2) may prefer an appeal to
such authority and within such time as the State Government may, by
notification in the Official Gazette, specify in this
behalf.
(4) The decision of the authority specified under
sub-section (3) shall be final.
40.Effect of laws and
agreements inconsistent with this Act.- (1) The provisions of
this Act shall have effect notwithstanding anything inconsistent
therewith contained in any other law for the time being in force or
in the terms of any award, agreement, or contract of service whether
made before or after the commencement of this Act:
Provided
that where under any such award, agreement, contract of services or
otherwise an employee is entitled to benefits in respect of any
matters which are more favourable to him than those to which he will
be entitled to under this Act, the employee shall continue to be
entitled to the more favourable benefits in respect of that matter
notwithstanding that he receives benefits in respect of other
matters under this Act.
(2) Nothing contained in this Act
shall be construed as precluding any employee from entering into
an
agreement with an
employer for granting him rights or privileges in respect of any
matter which are more favourable to him than those to which he would
be entitled under this Act.
41.Power to exempt.- The
State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette,
exempt, subject to such conditions and restrictions as it may
impose, any class of industrial premises or class of employers or
employees from all or any of the provisions of this Act or of any
rules made thereunder:
Provided that nothing in this section
shall be construed as empowering the State Government to grant any
exemption in respect of any woman employee from any of the
provisions of this Act or any rules made thereunder relating to an
annual leave with wages, maternity benefits, creches, wages,
rejection of beedi or cigar and night work.
42.Powers of Central Government
to give directions.- The Central Government may give directions
to a State Government as to the carrying into execution of the
provisions of this Act.
43.Act not to apply to self
employed persons in private dwelling houses.- Nothing contained
in this Act shall apply to the owner or occupier of a private
dwelling house who carries on any manufacturing processes 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:
Provided that the owner or occupier there of is not an
employee of an employee to whom this Act
applies.
Explanation.--For the purposes of this section,
"family" means the spouse and children of the owner or
occupier.
44.Power to
make rules.- (1) The State Government may, by notification in
the Official Gazette, make rules for carrying out the purposes of
this Act.
(2) In particular, and without prejudice to the
generality of the foregoing power, such rules may provide for all or
any of the following matters, namely:--
(a) the terms and
conditions subject to which a licence may be granted or renewed
under this Act and the fees to be paid in respect of such
licence;
(b) the forms of application for a licence under
this Act and the documents and plans to be submitted together with
such application;
(c) other matters which are to be taken
into consideration by the competent authority for granting or
refusing a licence;
(d) the time within which, the fees on
payment of which and the authority to which, appeals may be
preferred against any order granting or refusing to grant a
licence;
(e) the submissions of a monthly return by an
employer to the competent authority specifying the quantity of
tobacco released by the Central Excise Department and the number of
beedi or cigar or both manufactured by him;
(f) the powers
which may be conferred on the Inspectors under this Act;
(g)
the standards of cleanliness required to be maintained under his
Act;
(h) the standards of lighting, ventilation and
temperature required to be maintained under this Act:
(i) the
types of urinals and latrines required to be provided under this
Act;
(j) the washing facilities which are to be provided
under this Act;
(k) canteens;
(l)
the form and manner of notice regarding the periods of
work;
(m) the form in which records of work done outside an
establishment shall be maintained;
(n) the authority to which
and the time within which an appeal may be filed by a dismissed,
discharged or retrenched employee;
(o) the manner in which
the cash equivalent of the advantage accruing through the
concessional sale to an employee of foodgrains and other articles
shall be computed;
(p) the records and registers that shall
be maintained in an establishment for the purpose of securing
compliance with the provisions of this Act and the rules made
thereunder;
(q) the maintenance of first aid boxes or
cupboards and the contents thereof and the persons in whose charge
such boxes shall be placed;
(r) the manner in which sorting
or rejection of beedi or cigar or both the disposal of rejected
beedi or cigar or both shall be carried out;
(s) the fixation
of maximum limit of the percentage of rejection of beedi or cigar or
both manufactured by an employee;
(t) specifying the place at
which wages shall be paid to persons who receive directly or through
an agent raw materials for the manufacture of beedi or cigar or both
at home;
(u) supervision by the Inspectors over distribution
of raw materials including beedi and tobacco leaves to the
employees;
(v) precautions to be taken against fire for the
safety of workers;
(w) authority by which and the manner in
which a dispute as to the issue of raw materials shall be settled
and the authority to which an appeal shall lie from the settlement
made by the first-mentioned authority;
(x) any matter which
is required to be, or may be, prescribed.
(3) All rules made
under this Act shall be published in the Official Gazette and shall
be subject to the condition of previous publication; and the dates
to be specified under clause (3) of section 23 of the General
Clauses Act, 1897(10 of 1897), shall not be less than three months
from the date on which draft of the proposed rules was
published.
(4) Every rule made under this section shall
be laid as soon as may be after it is made, before each House of the
State Legislature, where it consists of two Houses, or where such
Legislature consists of one House, before that House, while it is in
session for a total period of thirty days which may be comprised in
one session or in two successive sessions, and if, before the expiry
of the session in which it is so laid or the session immediately
following the Legislatures agree in making any modification in the
rule or the Legislatures agree that the rule should not be made, the
rule shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be
of no effect, as the case may be; so however, that any such
modification of annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity
of anything previously done under that rule.