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Regd. No. CHD/0092/2018-2020

EXTRAORDINARY

Published by Authority

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GOVERNMENT OF PUNJAB

DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR

(LABOUR BRANCH)

NOTIFICATION

The 11th August, 2020

No.11/01/2019-2L/1131.-The following Ordinance of the Punjab State

Legislature received the assent of the President of India vide letter FNO.14/01/2020-

Judl & PP on the 11th day of June, 2020 and is hereby published for general

information:-

The Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) (Punjab Amendment) Ordinance,

2020

An

Ordinance

Further to amend the Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970 in

its applicability to the State of Punjab.

Promulgated by the Governor of Punjab in the Seventy-first Year of the Republic of

India.

Whereas the Legislative Assembly of the State of Punjab is not in session and the

Governor is satisfied that circumstances exist, which render it necessary for him to

take immediate action;

Now, therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred by clause (1) of Article 213

of the Constitution of India, the Governor of Punjab is pleased to promulgate the following

Ordinance, namely:-

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1.

(1)

This Ordinance may be called The Contract Labour (Regulation and

Abolition) (Punjab Amendment) Ordinance, 2020.

(2)

It shall come into force with effect form the date it is notified in the

Punjab Government Official Gazette.

2.

In the Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970, in its

applicability to the State of Punjab, in section 1, in sub-section (4), in

clauses (a), (b) and the proviso thereunder, for the word "twenty", the

word "fifty" shall be substituted.

-Sd-

GOVERNOR OF PUNJAB

Short Title,

extent and

commence-

ment

Amendment

of Section 1

of Central

Act 37 of

1970

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