Section 18
Authorities who may be specified for implementing provisions of this Act.
The Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act, 2013
About this Act
An Act to provide for the prohibition of employment as manual scavengers, rehabilitation of manual scavengers and their families, and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
The appropriate
Government may confer such powers and impose such duties onlocal authority and District Magistrate as
may be necessary to ensure that the provisions ofthis Act are properly carried out, and a local authority
and the District Magistrate may,specify the subordinate officers, who shall exercise all or any of the
powers, and perform allor any of the duties, so conferred or imposed, and the local limits within which
such powersor duties shall be carried out by the officer or officers so specified.