1) These rules may be called the Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Central Rules, 1946.
2[(2) They extend to all Union territories, and shall also apply in any State (other than a Union territory) to industrial establishments under the control of the Central Government or a Railway administration or in a major port, mine or oil field.]
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1. Vide Notification No. LR 11(37), dated 18th December, 1946.
2. Subs. by G.S.R. 208, dated 31st January, 1964.
In these rules, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context,—
(a) ‘Act’ means the Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Act, 1946 (20 of 1946),
(b) ‘Form’ means a form set out in Schedule II appended to these Rules.
(1) Save as otherwise provided in sub-rule (2), the Model Standing Orders for the purposes of the Act shall be those set out in Schedule I appended to these rules.
(2) The Model Standing Orders for the purposes of the Act in respect of industrial establishments in coal mines shall be those set out in Schedule IA appended to these rules.]
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1. Subs. by G.S.R. 732, dated 12th May, 1971.
The prescribed particulars of workmen for the purposes of sub-section (3) of section 3 of the Act shall be—
(1) Total number employed;
(2) Number of permanent workmen;
(3) Number of temporary workmen;
1[(3A) Number of casual workmen;]
(4) Number of badlis or substitutes;
2[(4A) Number of fixed term employment workmen;]
(5) Number of probationers;
(6) Number of apprentices;
(7) Name of the trade union, or trade unions, if any, to which the workmen belong;
(8) Remarks.
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1. Ins. by S.R.O. 556, dated 24th February, 1956.
2. Ins. by G.S.R. 936(E), dated 10th December, 2003 (w.e.f. 10-12-2003).
As soon as may be after he receives an application under rule 4 in respect of an industrial establishment, the Certifying Officer shall—
(a) where there is a trade union of the workmen, forward a copy of the draft Standing Orders to the trade union together with a notice in Form II;
(b) where there is no such trade union, call a meeting of the workmen to elect three representatives, to whom he shall, upon their election, forward a copy of the draft Standing Orders together with a notice in Form II.
Standing Orders certified in pursuance of sub-section (3) of section 5 or sub-section (2) of section 6 of the Act shall be authenticated by the signature and seal of office of the Certifying Officer or the appellate authority as the case may be and shall be forwarded by such officer or authority within a week of authentication by registered letter post to the employer and to the trade union, or, as the case may be, the representatives of the workmen elected in pursuance of rule 6.
The register required to be maintained by section 8 of the Act shall be in Form III and shall be properly bound and the Certifying Officer shall furnish a copy of Standing Orders approved for an Industrial Establishment to any person applying therefor on payment of a fee 1[calculated at the following rates per copy—
(i) for the first two hundred words or less seventy-five paise;
(ii) for every additional one hundred words or fraction thereof thirty-seven paise:
Provided that, where the said Standing Order exceeds five pages, the approximate number of words per page shall be taken as the basis for calculating the total number of words to the nearest hundred, for the purpose of assessing the copying fee.]
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1. Subs. by G.S.R. 1573, dated 10th October, 1967.