Kerala Gazette No. 35 dated 26th August 2008 .
PART I
Section iv GOVERNMENT OF KERALA
Labour and Rehabilitation (B ) Department
NOTIFICATION
G. O. (Rt . ) No. 1690 /2008/LBR .
Dated, Thiruvananthapuram, 24 June 2008 .
8. R. O. No. 891/2008. - In exercise of the powers conferred by Section 112 of the Factories Act , 1948 ( Central Act 63 of 1948) , the Government of Kerala , hereby make the following rules further to amend the Kerala Factories Rules , 1957 , the same having been previously published under G. O. ( Rt) No. 2828 /2007 /LBR dated 18th September , 2007 , in the Kerala Gazette Extraordinary No. 1899 dated 19th October 2007 as required by section 115 of the said Act, namely:
AMENDMENT
1. Short title and commencement .-( 1 ) These rules may be called the Kerala Factories (Amendment ) Rules , 2008 .
(2) They shall come into force at once.
2. Amendment of the Rules .In the Kerala Factories Rules , 1957 in rule 122, in the Schedule XIV, after sub - paragraph ( 3 ) of Paragraph 19 , the following sub - paragraph shall be inserted, namely :--
"(3A) Every employer shall maintain and keep maintaining the health record in Form No. 17 of very worker up to a minimum period of 40 years from the beginning of the employment or 15 years after retirement or cessation of the employment whichever is later" .
By order of the Governor,
C. K. VIBWANATHAN , SecretarytoGovernment .
G. 562/2008 /G 2
Explanatory Note
(This does not form part of the notification , but is intended to indicate its general purport .)
As directed by the Supreme Court of India in its judgment in W. P. No. 206/1988 dated 27th January , 1995 Government have decided to direct all industries to maintain and keep maintaining the health record of every worker in Form Number 17 in the Kerala Factories Rules , 1957 by making ameniment to paragraph 19 of Schedule XIV of Rule 122 of the said rules .
This notification is intended to achieve the above object.