(1) ¹[Any employer, workmen, trade union or other prescribed representatives of the workmen] aggrieved by the order of the Certifying Officer under sub-section (2) of section 5 may, within ²[thirty days] from the date on which copies are sent under sub-section (3) of that section, appeal to the appellate authority, and the appellate authority, whose decision shall be final, shall by order in writing confirm the standing orders either in the form certified by the Certifying Officer or after amending the said standing orders by making such modifications thereof or additions thereto as it thinks necessary to render the standing orders certifiable under this Act.
     (2) The appellate authority shall, within seven days of its order under sub-section (1), send copies thereof to the Certifying Officer, to the employer and to the trade union or other prescribed representatives of the workmen, accompanied, unless it has confirmed without amendment the standing orders as certified by the Certifying Officer, by copies of the standing orders as certified by it and authenticated in the prescribed manner.
                                                    STATE AMENDMENTS
     Maharashtra.--
     Amendment of section 6 of Act XX of 1946.--In section 6 of the said Act,--
    (a) in sub-section (1) for the portion beginning with "confirm the standing orders" and ending with "certifiable under this Act", substitute the following, namely:-- "confirm the amendments either in the form certified by the Certifying Officer or after further modifying the same as the appellate authority thinks necessary."
    (b) in sub-section (2),--
            (i) for the words "unless it has confirmed without amendment the standing orders", substitute "unless it has confirmed without further modifications the amendments";
            (ii) for the words "by copies of the standing orders", substitute "by copies of the model standing orders together with the amendments".
    [Vide Bombay Act XXI of 1958, s. 10]