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LEGISLATIVE SUPPLEMENT

Contents

Pages

Part - I

Acts

The Factories (Punjab Amendment) Act, 2020.

(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,

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),-

(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.

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.

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Short title and

commencement.

Amendment of

section 2 of

Central Act 63 of

1948.

Amendment of

section 65 of

Central Act 63 of

1948.

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:-

"106B.

The Inspector may, subject to any general or special order of

the State Government in this behalf, compound any offence

(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

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.

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Insertion of new

section 106B in

Central Act 63 of

1948.

Compounding

of offences.

Repeal and

saving.

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