Section List

Act Number: 30

Act Name: The Inter-State Migrant Workmen (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1979

Year: 1979

Enactment Date: 1979-06-11

Long Title: An Act to regulate the employment of inter-State migrant workmen and to provide for their conditions of service and for matters connected therewith.

Ministry: Ministry of Labour and Employment

Department:

Section NumberTitleActions
1 Short title, extent, commencement and application.
2 Definitions.
3 Appointment of registering officers.
4 Registration of certain establishments.
5 Revocation of registration in certain cases.
6 Prohibition against employment of inter-State migrant workmen without registration.
7 Appointment of licensing officers.
8 Licensing of contractors.
9 Grant of licences.
10 Revocation, suspension and amendment of licences.
11 Appeal.
12 Duties of contractors.
13 Wage rates and other conditions of service of inter-State migrant workmen.
14 Displacement allowance.
15 Journey allowance, etc.
16 Other facilities.
17 Responsibility for payment of wages.
18 Liability of principal employer in certain cases.
19 Past liabilities.
20 Inspectors.
21 Inter-State migrant workmen to be deemed to be in employment from date of recruitment for the purposes of certain enactments.
22 Provisions regarding industrial disputes in relation to inter-State migrant workmen.
23 Registers and other records to be maintained.
24 Obstructions.
25 Contravention of provisions regarding employment of inter-State migrant workmen.
26 Other offences.
27 Offences by companies.
28 Cognizance of offences.
29 Limitation of prosecutions.
30 Effect of laws and agreements inconsistent with the Act.
31 Power to exempt in special cases.
32 Protection of action taken under the Act.
33 Power to give directions.
34 Power to remove difficulties.
35 Power to make rules.
36 Repeals and saving.
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