Section 13A:
Interpretation, etc., of standing orders.
1[13A. Interpretation, etc., of standing orders.--If any question arises as to the application or
interpretation of a standing order certified under this Act, any employer or workman 2[or a trade union or
other representative body of the workmen] may refer the question to any one of the Labour Courts
constituted under the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (14 of 1947), and specified for the disposal of such
proceeding by the appropriate Government by notification in the Official Gazette, and the Labour Court
to which the question is so referred shall, after giving the parties an opportunity of being heard, decide the
question and such decision shall be final and binding on the parties.]
STATE AMENDMENTS Karnataka
Amendment of section 13-A.--In section 13-A of the principal Act, after the words "Standing Orders
Certified the words "or adopted" shall be inserted.[Vide Karnataka Act 12 of 2014, s. 12]
Maharashtra.--
Amendment of section 13A of Act XX of 1946.-- In section 13A, after the words "standing order"
and in the marginal note thereto after the words "standing orders", insert the words "model standing order
or amendments"; and after the word "workman", insert "or any prescribed representatives of workmen".
[Vide Bombay Act XXI of 1958, s. 17]
Notes:
1. Ins. by Act 36 of 1956, s. 32 (w.e.f. 10-3-1957).
2. Ins. by Act 18 of 1982, s. 8 (w.e.f. 17-5-1982).