Act Number: 8

Act Name: The Employees Compensation Act, 1923

Year: 1923

Enactment Date: 1923-03-05

Long Title: An Act to provide for the payment by certain classes of employers to their workmen of compensation for injury by accident.

Ministry: Ministry of Labour and Employment

Department:

Section 1: Short title, extent and commencement.
    (1) This Act may be called the 1[Employee's] Compensation Act, 1923.
     2[(2) It extends to the whole of India 3***.]
     (3) It shall come into force on the first day of July, 1924.
Notes:
1. Subs. by s. 4, ibid., for "Workmen's" (w.e.f. 18-1-2010 ).
2. Subs. by the A. O. 1950, for sub-section (2).
3. The words "except the State of Jammu and Kashmir" omitted by Act 51 of 1970, s. 2 and Schedule (w.e.f. 1-9-1971).
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