Punjab Labour Welfare Fund Act, 1965

No: 17 Dated: Jul, 27 1965

The Punjab Labour Welfare Fund Act, 1965

Punjab Act No. 17 of 1965

    An Act to provide for the constitution of a Fund for the financing of activities to promote welfare of labour in the State of Punjab and for conducting such activities and for certain other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Punjab in the sixteenth Year of the Republic of India as follows:-

1. Short title, extent and commencement. - (1) This Act may be called the Punjab Labour Welfare Fund Act, 1965.

(2) It extends to the territories which, immediately before the 1st day of November, 1966, were comprised in the State of Punjab, excluding the territory transferred to the Union Territory of Himachal Pradesh under section 5 of the Punjab Reorganisation Act, 1966 (31 of 1966).

(3) It shall come into force on the first day of July, 1965.

2. Definitions. - In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, -

(1) 'Board' means the Labour Welfare Board established and constituted under section 4 for each of the States of Punjab and Haryana and the Union Territory of Chandigarh;

(2) 'employee' means any person who is employed for hire or reward to do any work, skilled or unskilled, manual or clerical, in an establishment;

(3) 'employer' means any person who employs, either directly or through another person on behalf of himself or any other person, one or more employees in an establishment, and includes, -

(i) in a factory, any person named under clause (f) of sub-section (1) of section 7 of the Factories Act, 1948, as the manager;

(ii) in any establishment, other than a factory, any person responsible to the owner of the establishment for the supervision and control of the employees or for the payment of wages;

(4) 'establishment' means -

(i) a factory;

(ii) a motor omnibus service; or

(iii) any establishment, including a society registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860, and a charitable or other trust, which carries on any business or trade or any work connected there with or ancillary thereto and has been employing on any working day during the preceding twelve months more than twenty persons;

(5) 'factory' means a factory as defined in clause (m) of section 2 of the Factories Act, 1948, or any place which is deemed to be a factory under sub- section (2) of section 85 of that Act;

(6) 'Fund' means the Labour Welfare Fund constituted under section 3 for each of the States of Punjab and Haryana and the Union Territory of Chandigarh.

(7) 'independent member' means a member of the Board who is not connected with the management of any establishment or who is not an employee;

(8) 'Inspector' means an Inspector appointed under section 15;

(9) 'prescribed' means prescribed by rules made under this Act;

(10) 'unpaid accumulations' means all payments due to the employees but not made to them within a period of three years from the date on which they became due, whether before or after the commencement of this Act, including the wages, bonus and gratuity legally payable, but not including the amount of contribution, if any, paid by an employer to a provident fund established under the Employees Provident Fund Act, 1952;

(11) 'wages' means wages as defined in clause (6) of section 2 of the Payment of Wages Act, 1936;

(12) 'Welfare Commissioner' means the Welfare Commissioner appointed under section 14.