Act Number: 32

Act Name: The Beedi and Cigar Workers (Conditions of Employment) Act, 1966

Year: 1966

Enactment Date: 1966-11-30

Long Title: An Act to provide for the welfare of the workers in beedi and cigar establishments and to regulate the conditions of their work and for matters connected therewith.

Ministry: Ministry of Labour and Employment

Department:

Section 29: Special provisions.
    (1) The State Government may permit the wetting or cutting of beedi or tobacco leaves by employees outside the industrial permises on an application made to it by the employer on behalf of such employees.
     (2) The employer shall maintain in the prescribed form a record of the work permitted under sub-section (1) to be carried on outside the industrial premises.
     (3) Save as otherwise provided in this section, no employer shall require or allow any manufacturing process connected with the making of beedi or cigar or both to be carried on outside the industrial premises:
     Provided that nothing in this sub-section shall apply to any labour who is given raw material by an employer or a contractor for being made into beedi or cigar or both at home.
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