Act Number: 36

Act Name: The Code on Social Security, 2020

Year: 2020

Enactment Date: 2020-09-28

Long Title: An Act to amend and consolidate the laws relating to social security with the goal to extend social security to all employees and workers either in the organised or unorganised or any other sectors and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.

Ministry: Ministry of Labour and Employment

Department:

Section 35: Accidents happening while acting in breach of law, etc.
    An accident shall be deemed to arise out of and in the course of an employee's employment notwithstanding that he is at the time of the accident acting in contravention of the provisions of any law applicable to him, or of any orders given by or on behalf of his employer or that he is acting without instructions from his employer, if—
        (a) the accident would have been deemed so to have arisen had the act not been done in contravention as aforesaid or without instructions from his employer, as the case may be; and
        (b) the act is done for the purpose of and in connection with the employer's trade or business.
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