Increase In Limit For Applicability Of Maharashtra Contract Labour Act (Twenty to Fifty)

 Increase In Limit For Applicability Of Maharashtra Contract Labour Act

As per the Notification of Maharashtra Act II of 2017, Part VIII Ext. 4 published in official gazette of Maharashtra, the Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition), Act 1970 will be applicable to every principal employer and Contractor who employs fifty or more workers

In pursuance of clause (3) of article 348 of the Constitution of India, the following translation in English of the Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) (Maharashtra Amendment) Act, 2016 (Mah. Act No. II of 2017), is hereby published under the authority of the Governor.

                                                                            By order and in the name of the Governor of Maharashtra,                                                                                         PRAKASH H. MALI, Principal Secretary to                                                                                                     Government, Law and Judiciary Department. 

MAHARASHTRA ACT No. II OF 2017

(First published, after having received the assent of the President in the “Maharashtra Government Gazette”, on the 5th January 2017).

An Act further to amend the Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970, 

in its application to the State of Maharashtra. 

WHEREAS it is expedient further to amend the Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970, in its application to the State of Maharashtra, for the purposes hereinafter appearing; it is hereby enacted in the Sixty-seventh Year of the Republic of India as follows :— 

1. This Act may be called the Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) (Maharashtra Amendment) Act, 2016. 

2. In section 1 of the Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970, in its application to the State of Maharashtra, in sub-section (4),— 

(a) in clause (a), for the words “twenty or more workmen” the words “fifty or more workmen” shall be substituted.

(b) in clause (b), for the words “twenty or more workmen” the words “fifty or more workmen” shall be substituted ;

(c) in the proviso, for the words “less than twenty” the words “less than fifty” shall be substituted.