Act Number: 45

Act Name: The Working Journalists and other Newspaper Employees (Conditions of Service) and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1955

Year: 1955

Enactment Date: 1955-12-20

Long Title: An Act to regulate certain conditions of service of working journalists and other persons employed in newspaper establishments.

Ministry: Ministry of Labour and Employment

Department:

Section 13C: Wage Board for fixing or revising rates of wages in respect of non-journalist newspaper employees.
    1[13C. Wage Board for fixing or revising rates of wages in respect of non-journalist newspaper employees.--For the purpose of fixing or revising rates of wages in respect of non-journalist newspaper employees under this Act, the Central Government shall, as and when necessary, constitute a Wage Board which shall consist of--
         (a) 2[three persons] representing employers in relation to newspaper establishments;
         (b) 2[three persons] representing non-journalist newspaper employees; and
         (c) 3[four independent persons], one of whom shall be a person who is, or has been, a Judge of a High Court or the Supreme Court and who shall be appointed by that Government as the Chairman thereof.]
Notes:
1. Ins. by Act 60 of 1974, s. 4.
2. Subs. by Act 34 of 1996, s. 3, for "two persons" (w.e.f. 28-9-1996).
3. Subs. by s. 3, ibid., for "three independent persons" (w.e.f. 28-9-1996).

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