REGISTERED No. D (D)-72
The Gazette of India
EXTRAORDINARY
PART Il—Section 2
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY
N0.34] NEW DELHI, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31, I976/CHAITRA 11, 1898
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RAJYA SABHA
The following Bill was introduced in the Rajya Sabha on the 31st
March, 1976: —
BILL NO. XXIII OF 1976
A Bill further to amend the Workmen's Compensation Act, 1923.
BE it enacted by Parliament in the Twenty-seventh Year of the Re-
public of India as follows: —
1. (1) This Act may be called the Workmen's Compensation (Amend-
ment) Act, 1976.
Short title and com- mence- ment.
(2) Sections 2 and 4 shall be deemed to have come into force on the 1st day of October, 1975 and the remaining provisions shall come into force at once.
8 of 1923.
Amend- ment of section 2.
2. In section 2 of the Workmen's Compensation Act, 1923 (hereinafter
referred to as the principal Act), in sub-section (1), in sub-clause (ii) of
clause (n), for the words "five hundred rupees", the words "one thousand
rupees" shall be substituted.
Amend- ment of section 38 3. In section 36 of the principal Act, for the words "two successive sessions, and if before the expiry of the session in which it is so laid or the session immediately following", the words "two or more successive sessions, and if, before the expiry of the session immediately following the session or the successive sessions aforesaid" shall be substituted.
(789)
790 THE GAZETTE OF INDIA EXTRAORDINARY [PART II—,4. For Schedule IV to the principal Act, the following Schedule shall
be substituted, namely.—
Substi- tution of new Schedule for Sche- dule IV.
''SCHEDULE IV
(See section 4)
COMPENSATION PAYABLE IN CERTAIN CASES
Amount of compensation for—
Monthly wages
of the workman
injured
Half-monthly payment
aa compensation for
temporary disablement
Death
Permtaatt
total disable-
ment
4
1
More than
But not
til ore than
R B,
Rs.
Ra.
Rs. P.
R*.
10,080
7,100
60
0
Half hli monthly wage*
9,730
14,608
90
36.00
6o
11.520
16,128
1 30
90
/p.00
I3"5oo
ISO
18,900
1 20
48.75
16,800
3 00
60.00
23.520
18,000
3 00
35,200
82.50
2 00
19,200
4 00
26,880
3 00
100.00
29,400
21,000
118.75
4 00
50 0
21,600
500
6 00
30,240
135-00
23,100
6 DO
7 00
148.75
33,34<"
24,000
7 00
Soo
160.00
33,6oo
800
9 00
37,000
168.75
37.8oo
1000
30,000
9 00
43,000
I75-O0".
SEC. 2] THE GAZETTE OF INDTA EXTRAORDINARY 791STATEMENT OF OBJECTS AND REASONS
The Workmen's Compensation Act, 1923, provides for payment of compensation to workmen and their families in case of industrial accidents and of certain occupational diseases, resulting an death or disablement. The1 Act was last amended in 1962,
NEW DELHI; K. V. RAGHUNATHA REDDY.
792 THE GAZETTE OF INDIA EXTRAORDINARY [PART II—SEC. 2J;FINANCIAL MEMORANDUM
The Work&rm's Compensation Act, 1923 covers a large number of persons employed by Central Government in Railways, Posts and Tele- graphs, Central Public Works Department, etc.
2. Clause 2 of the Bill seeks to increase the wage limit for coverage-
from Rs. 500 to Rs. 1000 per month. This would bring within the cover- age of the Act a large number ofl employees in respect of whom the- employers (including the Central Government) have at present no statu- tory liability for payment of compensation.
3. Clause!| 4 seeks to substitute the existing Schedule IV by a new
Schedule with a view to—
(i) revising the existing rates of compensation for death, per-
manent total disablement and temporary disablement: and
(ii) providing suitable rates of compensation for workmen-
drawing monthly wages of more than Rs. 500 per month.
4. The above proposals in so far as they relate to the Central Govern- ment will involve increased expenditure from the Consolidated Fund of India with regard to payment of compensation. However, as compensa- tion becomes payable only in the event of an injury caused to a work- man by accident arising out of and in the course of his employment, r e- sulting in disablement or death, it is not possible to estimate the amount of increased expenditure.
5. The Bill does not involve any other expenditure, whether of recur-
ring or non-recurring nature.
B. N. BANERJEE,
Secretary-General.
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NEW DELHI AND PUBLISHED BY THE CONTROLLER OF PUBLICATIONS, DELHI, 1976-
- ' month. The limit is considered very low in the context of current wage 4eVels in private as well as public-*sectbr. There has, there- fore, been persistent requests for enhancement of the wage limit for cover- age under the Act. In the circumstance's, it is now proposed to raise the wag£ limit for coverage of workmen under the Act from Rs. 500 to Rs. 1.QO0 per month with effect from the 1st October, 1975. This is likely to secure the be(ne.fits conferred by the Act to a large sectipn of the workers. 3. Simultaneously with the revision of wage limit for coverage, the existing rates of compensation as provided under Schedule IV to the Act need an upward^ revision. It is also necessary to provide suitable scales of compensation for the higher wage levels beyond Rs. 500. It has accordingly been prdposed to make suitable modification in the existing wa,ge groups and the| rates of compensation in Schedule IV to the Act. Opportunity is being taken to amend the rule laying formula to bring it in confomiity with the recommendations of the Committee on Subordi- nate Legislation. 4. The Bill seeks to achieve the' above objects. The 19th March, 1976. ↩