Section 19
Past liabilities.
The Inter-State Migrant Workmen (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1979
About this Act
An Act to regulate the employment of inter-State migrant workmen and to provide for their conditions of service and for matters connected therewith.
It shall be the duty of every contractor and every principal employer to ensure
that any loan given by such contractor or principal employer to any inter-State migrant workman does not
remain outstanding after the completion of the period of employment of such workman under the said
contractor or, as the case may be, in the establishment of such principal employer and accordingly every
obligation of an inter-State migrant workman to re-pay any debt obtained by him during the period of his
employment from the contractor or the principal employer and remaining unsatisfied before the
completion of such period shall, on such completion, be deemed to have been extinguished and no suit or
other proceeding shall lie in any court or before any authority for the recovery of such debt or any part
thereof.