Kerala Gazette No. 36 dated 11th September 2007. PART II SECRETARIAT OF THE KERALA LEGISLATURE
NOTIFICATION
No. 1823/Legn.3/2007/Leg. Dated, Thiruvananthapuram, 5th September 2007.
The Kerala Tailoring Workers' Welfare Fund (Amendment)) Bill, 2007 together with the Statement of Object and Reasons, the Financial Memorandum and the Memorandum regarding Delegated Legislation is published, under Rule 69 of the Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in the Kerala Legislative Assembly.
DR. N. K. JAYAKUMAR,
Secretary,
Legislative Assembly.
2Twelfth Kerala Legislative Assembly
Bill No. 93
[Translation in English of "2007-ലെ കേരള തയ്യൽ തൊഴിലാളി ക്ഷേമനിധി (ഭേദഗതി) ബിൽ" published under the authority of the Governor] THE KERALA TAILORING WORKERS' WELFARE FUND (AMENDMENT) BILL, 2007
A
BILL
to amend the Kerala Tailoring Workers' Welfare Fund Act, 1994
Preamble.—WHEREAS, it is expedient to amend the Kerala Tailoring Workers' Welfare Fund Act, 1994, (16 of 1994) for the purposes hereinafter appearing;
BE it enacted in the Fifty-eighth Year of the Republic of India as follows:—
1. Short title and commencement.—(1) This Act may be called the Kerala Tailoring Workers' Welfare Fund ( Amendment) Act, 2007.
(2) It shall come into force at once.
2. Amendment of section 7.—In the Kerala Tailoring Workers' Welfare Fund Act, 1994 (16 of 1994), in section 7,—
(a) for sub-section (1) the following sub-section and proviso shall be substituted, namely:-
"(1) Every tailoring worker and every self employed person shall pay twenty rupees per month and every employer, on the basis of the number of tailoring workers engaged by him, pay five rupees per worker per month respectively as contribution:
Provided that, in the establishments wherein more than hundred workers are working, it is sufficient for the employer, to pay rupees three per worker above hundred, per month to the Fund".;
(b) in sub-section (2) the words "rupees fifteen" shall be omitted;
(c) after sub-section (4) the following proviso shall be added, namely:—
"Provided that, when the contribution amount has increased above ten rupees, the Government have no liability to provide grant to the Fund, proportionate to such increase."3
STATEMENT OF OBJECTS AND REASONS
In the circumstance that the registration of employers is too deficient and the contribution received to the Fund is so meager, in order to achieve the objective of the collection of more contribution by expediting the registration of employers and to enhance the contribution of members in accordance with the substantial increase in the benefits to the members and to attain the self-sufficiency to the Board, the Government have decided to make necessary amendments in the Kerala Tailoring Workers Welfare Fund Act, 1994.
The Bill seeks to achieve the said object.
FINANCIAL MEMORANDUM
The Bill if enacted and brought into operation, would not involve any expenditure from the Consolidated Fund of the State.
P. K. GURUDASAN.