Act Number: 25

Act Name: The Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act, 2013

Year: 2013

Enactment Date: 2013-09-18

Long Title: 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.

Ministry: Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment

Department: Department of Social Justice and Empowerment

Section 1: Short title, extent and commencement.
    (1) This Act may be called the Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengersand their Rehabilitation Act, 2013.
     (2) It extends to the whole of India 1***.
     (3) It shall come into force on such date3 as the Central Government may, by notificationin the Official Gazette, appoint:
     Provided that the date so notified shall not be earlier than sixty days after the date ofpublication of 2[the said notification] in the Official Gazette
Notes:
1. The words "except the State of Jammu and Kashmir" omitted by Act 34 of 2019, s. 95 and the Fifth Schedule (w.e.f. 31-10-2019).
2. 6th December, 2013, vide notification No.S.O. 2989(E), dated 1st October, 2013, see Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Sec. 3(ii).
3. Subs. by Act 17 of 2015, s.3 and the Second Schedule, for "the notification" (w.e.f. 13-5-2015).
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