Short title, extent and application

An Act to require employers in industrial establishments formally to define conditions of employment under them.

Whereas it is expedient to require employers in industrial establishments to define with sufficient precision the conditions of employment under them and to make the said conditions known to workmen employed by them;

"An Act to provide for defining with sufficient precision certain conditions of employment in industrial establishments in the State of Bombay." - vide Bombay Act No. XXI of 1958.

In the preamble for the portion beginning with the words "to require" and ending with the words "by them", the words "to provide for defining with sufficient precision certain conditions of employment in industrial establishments in the State of Bombay, and for certain other matters" shall be substituted - vide Bombay Act No. XXI of 1958.

1. (1) This Act may be called the Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Act,1946.

[(3) It applies to every industrial establishment wherein one hundred or more workmen or employed, or were employed on any day of the preceding twelve months :

Provided that the appropriate Government may, after giving not less than two months’ notice of its intention so to do, by notification in the Official Gazette, apply the provisions of this Act to any industrial establishment employing such number of persons less than one hundred as may be specified in the notification :

(i) any industry to which the provisions of Chapter VII of the Bombay Industrial Relations Act, 1946 (11 of 1947), apply; or

(ii) any industrial establishment to which the provisions of the Madhya Pradesh Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Act, 1961 (26 of 1961) apply:

Provided that notwithstanding anything contained in the Madhya Pradesh Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Act, 1961 (26 of 1961), the provisions of this Act shall apply to all industrial establishments under the control of the Central Government.]

In section 1, in its application to the State of Karnataka, for the words "one hundred" occurring in sub-section (3) and in the proviso to it the word "fifty" shall be substituted vide Karnataka Act No. XXXVII of 1975.

In sub-section (3) of section 1, for the words "one hundred" the word "fifty" shall be substituted - vide Bombay Act No. XXI of 1958.

1. The words "except the State of Jammu and Kashmir" omitted by the Central Labour Laws (Extension to Jammu and Kashmir) Act, 1970. Earlier these words were substituted for "except Part B States" by the Part B States (Laws) Act, 1951.

2. Substituted by the Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) (Amendment) Act, 1961.

3. Second proviso omitted by the Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) (Amendment) Act, 1963, w.e.f. 23-12-1963. Earlier it was substituted by the Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) (Amendment) Act, 1961.

4. Inserted by the Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) (Amendment) Act, 1961.