The Beedi and Cigar Workers (Conditions of Employment) Act, 1966

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The Beedi and Cigar Workers (Conditions of Employment) Act, 1966

THE BEEDI AND CIGAR WORKERS (CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT) ACT, 1966 ACT NO. 32 OF 1966

[30th November, 1966.]

An Act to provide for the welfare of the workers in beedi and cigar establishments and to regulate the conditions of their work and for matters connected therewith.

BE it enacted by Parliament in the Seventeenth Year of the Republic of India as follows:--

Short title, extent and commencement.

1. Short title, extent and commencement.- (1) This Act may be called the Beedi and Cigar Workers (Conditions of Employment) Act, 1966.

(2) It extends to the whole of India except the State of Jammu and Kashmir.

(3) It shall come into force in a State of such date1* as the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint and different dates may be appointed by the State Government for different areas and for different provisions of this Act.

Definitions.

2. Definitions.- In this Act, unless the context requires,--

(a) "adult" means a person who has completed eighteen years of age ;

(b) "child" means a person who has not completed fourteen years of age ;

(c) "competent authority" means any authority authorised by the State Government by notification in the Official Gazette to perform all or any of the functions of the competent authority under this Act and for such areas as may be specified therein ;

(d) "contractor" means a person who, in relation to a manufacturing process, undertakes to produce a given result by executing the work through contract labour or who engages labour for any manufacturing process in a private dwelling house and includes a sub-contractor, agent, munshi, thekedar or sattedar ;

(e) "contract labour" means any person engaged or employed in any premises by or through a contractor, with or without the knowledge of the employer, in any manufacturing process ;

[See footnote 1 for this section]

(f) "employee" means a person employed directly or through any agency, whether for wages or not, in any establishment to do any work, skilled, unskilled, manual or clerical, and includes--

(i) any labour who is given raw materials by an employer or a contractor for being made into beedi or cigar or both at home (hereinafter referred to in this Act as "home worker"), and (ii) any p...

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