Labour Codes
The Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020
Act 37 of 2020 · 143 sections
Practise questions on Labour & Industrial Law
Title, date and preamble
[28th September, 2020.]
An Act to consolidate and amend the laws regulating the occupational safety, health and working
conditions of the persons employed in an establishment and for matters connected therewith
or incidental thereto.
BE it enacted by Parliament in the Seventy-first Year of the Republic of India as follows:—
Contents
CHAPTER I PRELIMINARY
CHAPTER II REGISTRATION
CHAPTER III DUTIES OF EMPLOYER AND EMPLOYEES, ETC
- 6.Duties of employer
- 7.Duties and responsibilities of owner, agent and manager in relation to mine
- 8.Duties of designers, manufacturers, importers or suppliers
- 9.Duties of architect, project engineer and designer
- 10.Notice of certain accident
- 11.Notice of certain dangerous occurrences
- 12.Notice of certain diseases
- 13.Duties of employee
- 14.Rights of employee
- 15.Duty not to interfere with or misuse things
CHAPTER IV OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH
- 16.National Occupational Safety and Health Advisory Board
- 17.State Occupational Safety and Health Advisory Board
- 18.Occupational safety and health standards
- 19.Research related activities
- 20.Safety and occupational health surveys
- 21.Collection of statistics and portal for inter-State migrant workers
- 22.Safety Committee and safety officers
CHAPTER V HEALTH, SAFETY AND WORKING CONDITIONS
CHAPTER VI WELFARE PROVISIONS
CHAPTER VII HOURS OF WORK AND ANNUAL LEAVE WITH WAGES
CHAPTER VIII MAINTENANCE OF REGISTERS, RECORDS AND RETURNS
CHAPTER IX INSPECTOR-CUM-FACILITATORS AND OTHER AUTHORITY
- 34.Appointment of Inspector-cum-Facilitators
- 35.Powers of Inspector-cum-Facilitators
- 36.Powers and duties of District Magistrate
- 37.Third party audit and certification
- 38.Special powers of Inspector-cum-Facilitator in respect of factory, mines, dock work and building or other construction work
- 39.Secrecy of information by Chief Inspector-cum-Facilitator or Inspector-cum-Facilitator, etc
- 40.Facilities to be afforded to Inspector-cum-Facilitator
- 41.Powers of special officer to enter, measure, etc., in relation to mine
- 42.Medical officer
CHAPTER X SPECIAL PROVISION RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN
CHAPTER XI SPECIAL PROVISIONS FOR CONTRACT LABOUR AND INTER-STATE MIGRANT WORKER, ETC
PART I CONTRACT LABOUR
- 45.Applicability of this Part
- 46.Appointment of designated authority
- 47.Licensing of contractors
- 48.Procedure for issue or renewal of licence
- 49.No fees or commission or any cost to workers
- 50.Information regarding work order to be given to the appropriate Government
- 51.Revocation, suspension and amendment of licence
- 52.Appeal
- 53.Liability of principal employer for welfare facilities
- 54.Effect of employing contract labour from a non-licenced contractor
- 55.Responsibility for payment of wages
- 56.Experience certificate
- 57.Prohibition of employment of contract labour
- 58.Power to exempt in special cases
PART II INTER-STATE MIGRANT WORKERS
PART III AUDIO-VISUAL WORKERS
PART IV MINES
- 67.Managers
- 68.Code not to apply in certain cases
- 69.Exemption from provision regarding employment
- 70.Employment of persons below eighteen years of age
- 71.Exemption to certain persons
- 72.Establishment, maintenance of rescue services and vocational training
- 73.Decision of question whether a mine is covered under this Code
PART V BEEDI AND CIGAR WORKERS
PART VI BUILDING OR OTHER CONSTRUCTION WORKERS
PART VII FACTORIES
- 79.Approval and licensing of factories
- 80.Liability of owner of premises in certain circumstances
- 81.Power to apply Code to certain premises
- 82.Dangerous operations
- 83.Constitution of site appraisal committee
- 84.Compulsory disclosure of information by occupier
- 85.Specific responsibility of the occupier in relation to hazardous processes
- 86.National Board to inquire into certain situations
- 87.Emergency standards
- 88.Permissible limits of exposure of chemicals and toxic substances
- 89.Right of workers to warn about imminent danger
- 90.Appeal against the order of Inspector-cum-Facilitator in case of factory
- 91.Power to make rules to exempt
PART VIII PLANTATION
CHAPTER XII OFFENCES AND PENALTIES
- 94.General penalty for offences
- 95.Punishment for causing obstruction to Chief Inspector-cum-Facilitator or Inspector-cum
- 96.Penalty for non-maintenance of register, records and non-filing of returns, etc
- 97.Punishment for contravention of certain provisions
- 98.Punishment for falsification of records, etc
- 99.Penalty for omission to furnish plans, etc
- 100.Punishment for disclosure of information
- 101.Punishment for wrongfully disclosing results of analysis
- 102.Punishment for contravention of provisions of duties relating to hazardous processes
- 103.Punishment for contravention of provisions of duties relating to safety provisions resulting in an accident
- 104.Special provision for contravention of order under section 38
- 105.Failure to appoint manager in mine
- 106.Offences by employees
- 107.Prosecution of owner, agent or manager of mine
- 108.Exemption of owner, agent or manager of mine or occupier of factory from liability in certain cases
- 109.Offences by companies, etc
- 110.Limitation of prosecution and cognizance of offences
- 111.Power of officers of appropriate Government to impose penalty in certain cases
- 112.Jurisdiction of court for entertaining proceedings, etc., for offence
- 113.Power of court to make orders
- 114.Composition of certain offences
CHAPTER XIII SOCIAL SECURITY FUND
CHAPTER XIV MISCELLANEOUS
- 116.Delegation of powers
- 117.Onus as to age
- 118.Onus of proving limits of what is practicable, etc
- 119.Common licence for contractor, factories and to industrial premises, etc
- 120.Effect of law and agreements inconsistent with Code
- 121.Power of appropriate Government to direct inquiry in certain cases
- 122.Publication of reports
- 123.Powers of Central Government to give directions
- 124.General restriction on disclosure of information
- 125.Jurisdiction of civil courts barred
- 126.Protection of action taken in good faith
- 127.Power to exempt in special cases
- 128.Power to exempt during public emergency
- 129.Power to exempt public institution
- 130.Persons required to give notice, etc., legally bound to do so
- 131.Power of Central Government to amend Schedule
- 132.Power to remove difficulties
- 133.Power of appropriate Government to make rules
- 134.Power of Central Government to make rules
- 135.Power of State Government to make rules
- 136.Power of Central Government to make regulations in relation to mines and dock work
- 137.Prior publication of rules, etc
- 138.Power to make regulation without previous publication
- 139.Bye-laws
- 140.Powers to regulate general safety and health
- 141.Laying of regulations, rules, bye-laws, etc., before Parliament
- 142.Laying of rules made by State Government
- 143.Repeal and Savings
Schedules and appendices
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