Act Number: 39

Act Name: The Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972

Year: 1972

Enactment Date: 1972-08-21

Long Title: An Act to provide for a scheme for the payment of gratuity to employees engaged in factories, mines, oilfields, plantations, ports, railway companies, shops or other establishments and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.

Ministry: Ministry of Labour and Employment

Department:

Section 7A: Inspectors.
    1[7A. Inspectors.-- (1) The appropriate Government may, by notification, appoint as many Inspectors, as it deems fit, for the purposes of this Act.
     (2) The appropriate Government may, by general or special order, define the area to which the authority of an Inspector so appointed shall extend and where two or more Inspectors are appointed for the same area, also provide by such order, for the distribution or allocation of work to be performed by them under this Act.
     (3) Every Inspector shall be deemed to be a public servant within the meaning of section 21 of the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860).]
Notes:
1. Ins. by s. 5, ibid. (w.e.f. 1-7-1984).
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