Regd. No. NW/CH-22 Regd. No. CHD/0092/2018-2020 PUNJAB GOVT. GAZ. (EXTRA), OCTOBER 1, 2020
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EXTRAORDINARY
Published by Authority
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LEGISLATIVE SUPPLEMENT
Contents Pages
Part - I Acts
1. The Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) (Punjab Amendment) Act, 2020. (Punjab Act No. 13 of 2020)
.. 117-118
2. The Industrial Disputes (Punjab Amendment)
Act, 2020.
.. 119-121
(Punjab Act No. 14 of 2020)
Part - II Ordinances
Nil
Part - III Delegated Legislation
Nil
Part - IV Correction Slips, Republications and
Replacements
Nil
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PART I
GOVERNMENT OF PUNJAB
DEPARTMENT OF LEGAL AND LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS, PUNJAB
NOTIFICATION
The 1st October, 2020
No.16-Leg./2020.- The following Act of the Legislature of the State of
Punjab received the assent of the Governor of Punjab on the 22nd day of
September, 2020, is hereby published for general information:-
THE CONTRACT LABOUR (REGULATION AND ABOLITION)
(PUNJAB AMENDMENT) ACT, 2020
(Punjab Act No. 13 of 2020)
AN
ACT
further to amend the Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act,
1970, in its application to the State of Punjab.
BE it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Punjab in the Seventy-
first Year of the Republic of India as follows:-
1. (1) This Act may be called the Contract Labour (Regulation and Short title and commencement.
Abolition) (Punjab Amendment) Act, 2020.
(2) It shall come into force on and with effect from the date of its
publication in the Official Gazette.
2. In the Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970, in its
application 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
Amendment of section 1 of Central Act 37 of 1970. substituted.
3. (1) The Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) (Punjab Repeal and saving.
Amendment) Ordinance, 2020, published in the Punjab Government Gazette
(Extraordinary) dated the 11th August, 2020, is hereby repealed.
under the principal Act, as amended by the Ordinance referred to in 118
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sub-section (1), shall be deemed to have been done or taken under the principal
Act, as amended by this Act.
S.K. AGGARWAL,
Secretary to Government of Punjab,
Department of Legal and Legislative Affairs.
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PART I
GOVERNMENT OF PUNJAB
DEPARTMENT OF LEGAL AND LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS, PUNJAB
NOTIFICATION
The 1st October, 2020
No.17-Leg./2020.- The following Act of the Legislature of the State of
Punjab received the assent of the Governor of Punjab on the 23rd day of
September, 2020, is hereby published for general information:-
THE INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES (PUNJAB AMENDMENT)
ACT, 2020
(Punjab Act No. 14 of 2020)
AN
ACT
further to amend the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947, in its application
to the State of Punjab.
BE it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Punjab in the
Seventy-first Year of the Republic of India as follows:-
1. (1) This Act may be called the Industrial Disputes (Punjab Amendment) Short title and commencement.
Act, 2020.
(2) It shall come into force on and with effect from the date of its
publication in the Official Gazette.
2. In the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (hereinafter referred to as the
principal Act), in its application to the State of Punjab, in section 2A, after sub-
Amendment of section 2A of Central Act 14 of 1947.
section (3), the following sub-section (4) shall be added, namely:-
and (3), no such dispute or difference between that workman and his
employer connected with, or arising out of, such discharge, dismissal,
retrenchment or termination shall be deemed to be an industrial dispute if
such dispute is not raised in conciliation proceeding within a period of
three years from the date of such discharge, dismissal, retrenchment or
termination:
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Provided that an authority, as may be specified by the State
Government, may consider to extend the said period of three years when
the applicant workman satisfies the authority that he had sufficient cause
for not raising the dispute within the period of three years.".
Substitution of 3. In the principal Act, for section 25K, the following section shall be
section 25K of substituted, namely:-
Central Act 14 of
1947. "25K. (1) The provisions of this Chapter shall apply to an
Application of industrial establishment (not being an establishment of
Chapter VB.
a seasonal character or in which work is performed only
intermittently) in which not less than three hundred workmen were
employed on an average per working day for the preceding twelve months.
(2) Without prejudice to the provisions of sub-section (1), the State
Government may, if satisfied that maintenance of industrial peace or
prevention of victimization of workmen so requires, by notification in the
Official Gazette apply the provisions of this Chapter to an industrial
establishment (not being an establishment of a seasonal character or in
which work is performed only intermittently), in which less than three
hundred workmen but not less than one hundred workmen, as may be
specified in the notification, were employed on an average per working
day for the preceding twelve months.
(3) If a question arises whether an industrial establishment is of a
seasonal character or whether work is performed therein only
intermittently, the decision of the appropriate Government thereon shall
be final.".
4. In the principal Act, in section 25 N,-
Amendment of
section 25N of "(i) in sub-section (1), in clause (a), the signs and words ", or the
Central Act 14 of workman has been paid in lieu of such notice, wages for the
1947.
period of the notice" shall be omitted; and
(ii) in sub-section (9), after the words "six months", the following
words shall be added, namely:-
"and an amount equivalent to his three months average
pay".
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Amendment of 5. In the principal Act, in section 25-O, in sub-section (8), after the
section 25-O of words "six months", the following words shall be added, namely:-
Central Act 14 of
1947. "and an amount equivalent to his three months average pay".
Amendment of 6. In the principal Act, in Fifth Schedule, in part II, after paragraph 5,
Fifth Schedule of the following Explanation shall be added, namely:-
Central Act 14 of
1947. "Explanation.- For the purpose of this paragraph, 'go slow' means
any such activity by any number of persons, employed in any
industry, acting in combination or with common understanding,
to slow down or to delay the process of production or work
purposely whether called by work to rule or by any other
name, so as the fixed or average or normal level of production
or work or output of workman or workmen of the
establishment is not achieved:
Provided that all necessary ingredients or inputs for
standard quality production or work are made available in time
and in sufficient quantity.".
7. (1) The Industrial Disputes (Punjab Amendment) Ordinance, 2020, Repeal and saving.
published in the Punjab Government Gazette (Extraordinary) dated the
11th August, 2020, is hereby repealed.
under the principal Act, as amended by the Ordinance referred to in
sub-section (1), shall be deemed to have been done or taken under the principal
Act, as amended by this Act.
S.K. AGGARWAL,
Secretary to Government of Punjab,
Department of Legal and Legislative Affairs.