ACT 35 OF 2008

THE KERALA TAILORING WORKERS’ WELFARE FUND (AMENDMENT)

ACT,  2008

An Act to amend the Kerala Tailoring Workers’ Welfare Fund Act, 1994.

            Preamble.-WHEREAS, it is expedient to amend the Kerala Tailoring Workers’ Welfare Fund Act, 1994(16 of 1994) for the purposes hereinafter appearing;

            BE it enacted in the Fifty-ninth  Year of the Republic of India as follows:-  

1. Short title and commencement.-(1)  This Act may be called the Kerala Tailoring Workers’ Welfare Fund (Amendment) Act, 2008.

          (2)  It shall be deemed to have come into force on the 3rd day of January, 2008.

          2. Amendment of Section 7.-In section 7 of the Kerala Tailoring Workers’ Welfare Fund Act, 1994(16 of 1994)(hereinafter referred to as the principal Act),-

                  (a)  for sub-section (1) the following sub-section and proviso shall be substituted, namely:-

                       “(1)  Every tailoring worker and every self employed person shall pay twenty rupees each per month and every employer, on the basis of the number of tailoring workers engaged by him, shall pay five rupees each per worker per month respectively as contribution:

            Provided that in the establishments where more than hundred workers are working, it is sufficient for the employer to pay to the fund, three rupees each per worker exceeding hundred, per month.”;

                (b) in sub-section (2) the words “rupees fifteen” shall be omitted;

                (c) after sub-section (4), the following proviso shall be inserted, namely:-

                   “Provided that where the amount of monthly contribution increases above ten rupees, the Government have no liability to provide grant to the Fund in proportion to such increase.”.

            3. Repeal and saving.-(1) The Kerala Tailoring workers’ Welfare Fund (Amendment) Ordinance, 2008(23 of 2008) is hereby repealed.

               (2)  Notwithstanding such repeal, anything done or deemed to have been done under the principal Act as amended by the said Ordinance shall be deemed to have been done or taken under the principal Act as amended by this Act.