Regd. No. NW/CH-22 Regd. No. CHD/0092/2018-2020 PUNJAB GOVT. GAZ. (EXTRA), NOVEMBER 9, 2020
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LEGISLATIVE SUPPLEMENT
Contents Pages
Part - I Acts
The Factories (Punjab Amendment) Act, 2020.
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(Punjab Act No. 19 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 9th November, 2020
No. 22-Leg./2020.- The following Act of the Legislature of the State
of Punjab received the assent of the Governor of Punjab on the 30th day of
October, 2020, is hereby published for general information:-
THE FACTORIES (PUNJAB AMENDMENT) BILL, 2020
(Punjab Act No. 19 of 2020)
AN
ACT
further to amend the Factories Act, 1948, 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 Factories (Punjab Amendment) Act, Short title and commencement.
2020.
(2) It shall come into force on and with effect from the date of its
publication in the Official Gazette.
2. In the Factories Act, 1948 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act),
in its application to the State of Punjab, in section 2, in clause (m),-
Amendment of section 2 of Central Act 63 of 1948.
(i) in sub-clause (i), for the word "ten", the word "twenty" shall be
substituted; and
(ii) in sub-clause (ii), for the word "twenty", the word "forty" shall be
substituted.
3. In the principal Act, in section 65, in sub-section (3), in clause (iv), for
the word "seventy-five", the words "one hundred and fifteen" shall be
substituted.
Amendment of section 65 of Central Act 63 of 1948.
4. In the principal Act, in section 85, in sub-section (1), in clause (i), for the
words "ten" and "twenty", the words "twenty" and "forty" shall, respectively,
be substituted.
Amendment of section 85 of Central Act 63 of 1948.
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5. In the principal Act, after section 106A, the following section shall be
inserted, namely:-
Insertion of new section 106B in Central Act 63 of 1948.
"106B. The Inspector may, subject to any general or special order of
the State Government in this behalf, compound any offence
Compounding of offences.
(except offences under Chapter IV and IV A of the Factories
Act, 1948) punishable under this Act with fine only, and committed for the
first time, either before or after the institution of the prosecution, on
realization of such amount of composition fee as he thinks fit not exceeding
the maximum amount of fine fixed for the offence; and where the offence is
so compounded,-
(i) before the institution of the prosecution, the offender shall not be
liable to prosecution, for such offence and shall, if in custody, be
set at liberty;
(ii) after the institution of the prosecution, the composition shall amount
to acquittal of the offender.".
6. (1) The Factories (Punjab Amendment) Ordinance, 2020 (Punjab Repeal and saving.
Ordinance No. 3 of 2020), is hereby repealed.
(2) Notwithstanding such repeal, anything done or any action taken
under the Ordinance referred to in sub-section (1), shall be deemed to have
been done or taken under the corresponding provisions of this Act.
S.K. AGGARWAL,
Secretary to Government of Punjab,
Department of Legal and Legislative Affairs.