Interpretation, etc., of standing orders.

        ¹[13A. Interpretation, etc., of standing orders.--If any question arises as to the application or interpretation of a standing order certified under this Act, any employer or workman ²[or a trade union or other representative body of the workmen] may refer the question to any one of the Labour Courts constituted under the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (14 of 1947), and specified for the disposal of such proceeding by the appropriate Government by notification in the Official Gazette, and the Labour Court to which the question is so referred shall, after giving the parties an opportunity of being heard, decide the question and such decision shall be final and binding on the parties.]
    
                                                    STATE AMENDMENTS
    Karnataka
    Amendment of section 13-A.--In section 13-A of the principal Act, after the words "Standing Orders Certified the words "or adopted" shall be inserted.
[Vide Karnataka Act 12 of 2014, s. 12]
     Maharashtra.--
     Amendment of section 13A of Act XX of 1946.-- In section 13A, after the words "standing order" and in the marginal note thereto after the words "standing orders", insert the words "model standing order or amendments"; and after the word "workman", insert "or any prescribed representatives of workmen".
[Vide Bombay Act XXI of 1958, s. 17]