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

An Act to regulate the employment of inter-State migrant workmen and to provide for their conditions of service and for matters connected therewith.
1979
List of Chapters & Sections

  1. PRELIMINARY

  2. 1
     Short title, extent, commencement and application
  3. 2
     Definitions

  • REGISTRATION OF ESTABLISHMENTS EMPLOYING INTER-STATE MIGRANT WORKMEN

  • 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

  • LICENSING OF CONTRACTORS

  • 7
     Appointment of licensing officers
  • 8
     Licensing of contractors
  • 9
     Grant of licences
  • 10
     Revocation, suspension and amendment of licences
  • 11
     Appeal

  • DUTIES AND OBLIGATIONS OF CONTRACTORS

  • 12
     Duties of contractors

  • WAGES, WELFARE AND OTHER FACILITIES TO BE PROVIDED TO INTER-STATE MIGRANT WORKMEN

  • 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

  • INSPECTING STAFF

  • 20
     Inspectors

  • MISCELLANEOUS

  • 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