The Gazette of India
EXTRAORDINARY
PART II—Section 1
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY
No. 43] NEW DELHI, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1978/AGHAHAYANA 9, 1900
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MINISTRY OF LAW, JUSTICE AND COMPANY AFFAIRS
(Legislative Department)
New Delhi, the 30th November, 1978/Agrahayana 9, 1900 (Saka)
The following Act of Parliament received the assent of the President on the 29th November, 1978, and is hereby published for general informa- tion:—
THE EMPLOYMENT OF CHILDREN (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1978 No. 39 OF 1978
[29th November, 1973]
An Act further to amend the Employment of Children Act, 1978.
BE it enacted by Parliament in the Twenty-ninth Year of the Republic of India as follows:—
1. (1) This Act may be called the Employment of Children (Amend- ment) Act, 1978.
(2) It shall come into force on such date as the Central Government
Short title and com- mence ment.
may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.
26 of 1938.
522 THE GAZETTE OF INDIA EXTRAORDINARY [PART II—SEC. I](c) connected with the work in a catering establishment, at a rail- way station, involving the movement of a vendor or any other employee of the establishment from one platform to another or into or out of a moving train; or
(d) connected with the work relating to the construction of a railway station or with any other work where such work is done in close proxi- mity to, or between, the railway lines; or"
3. In section 3E of the principal Act,—
(i) for the words "and every port authority", the words ", every
Amend- ment of section 3E.
port authority and every employer" shall be substituted;
(ii) after the words "within the limits of a port", the words "or
at the place of work" shall be inserted.
.4. In section 4 of the principal Act,—
(0 in clause (c), the word "or" shall be inserted at the end;
Amend- ment of section 4.
(ii) after clause (c), as so amended, the following clause shall bo
inserted, namely:—
" (d) fails to display a notice containing an abstract of sub- sections (1) aQd (2) of section 3 and section 4 as required by section 3E,".
5. In section 7 of the principal Act, after sub-section (2), the follow-
ing sub-section shall be inserted, namely:—
Amend- ment of section 7.
" (3) Every rule made by the Central Government under this Act
shall bo laid, as soon as may be after it is made, before each House of Parliament, while it is in session, for a total period of thirty days which may be comprised in one, session or in two or more successive sessions, and if, before the expiry of the session immediately following the session or the successive sessions aforesaid, both Houses agree in making any modification in the rule or both Houses agree that the rule should not bo made, the rule shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be; so, however, that any such modifica- tion or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that rule.".
R. V. S. PERI SASTRI,