THE TAMIL NADU MANUAL WORKERS (REGULATION OF EMPLOYMENT AND CONDITIONS OF WORK) AMENDMENT ACT, 1993
Act No. 26 of 1993
An Act to amend the Tamil Nadu Manual Workers (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Work) Act, 1982.
Be it enacted by the legislature assembly of the state of Tamil Nadu in the forty fourth Year of the Republic of India as follows:—
1. Short title and commencement.
(1) This Act may be called the Tamil Nadu Manual Workers (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Work) Amendment Act, 1993.
(2) It shall come into force on such date as the State Government may, by notification, appoint.
2. Insertion of new section 8-A.
After section 8 of the Tamil Nadu Manual Workers (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Work) Act, 1982, the following section shall be inserted, namely:-
"8-A. Contribution to Fund for benefit of manual workers in employment in construction or maintenance of dams, bridges, etc.-
(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in any law for the time being in force or in any agreement,-
(a) every person who makes, an application for building permit for any building work to a local authority shall be liable to pay to the local authority concerned, in addition to the fee for the building permit; and
(b) every person who undertakes or is incharge of, any construction work [other than the building work referred to in clause (a)] shall be liable to pay, a sum at such per cent, not exceeding one per cent of the total estimated cost of the building or construction work proposed to be constructed, as may be fixed by the Government by notification, as contribution to the fund constituted for the benefit of manual workers in the employment in construction maintenance of dams, bridges, roads or in any building operations under a scheme framed under section 3.
(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in any law for the time being in force, every local authority shall, while Sanctioning the building permit, Collect the sum specified in clause (a) of sub-section (1), in such manner may be prescribed.
(3) (a) Notwithstanding anything contained in any law for the time force, every application made to any local authority for building permit, collect the sum specified in clause (a) of sub-section (1), in such proposed to be constructed, for which a building permit is applied for.
(b) The detailed estimate referred to in clause (a) shall be specified by such authority as may be prescribed as to the correctness of such estimate.
(4) Every local authority referred to in clause (a) and every person referred to in clause (b), of sub-section (1) shall, within such period as may be prescribed, remit the sum collected or liable to pay, as the case may be, under the said sub-section (1), to the Board established under section 6 in respect of the manual workers in the employment in construction or maintenance of dams, bridges, roads or in any building operations, in such manner as may be prescribed, for being credited to the Fund constituted for the benefit of the said worker's under a scheme framed under section 3.
(5) (a) The provisions of this section shall apply to—
(i) the City of Madras;
(ii) the City of Madurai; and
(iii) the City of Coimbatore,
on the date of the commencement of the Tamil Nadu Manual (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Work) Amendment Act, 1993
(b) The Government may, by notification, direct that this section shall apply on such date as may be specified in the notification to the local area comprised in—
(i) any municipal town;
(ii) any township; or
(iii) any panchayat.
Explanation.— For the purposes of this section,-
(a) "local authority" means-
(i) the Municipal Corporation of Madras, Madurai, Coimbatore or any other Municipal Corporation that may be constituted under any law for the time being in force; or
(ii) a municipal council constituted under the Tamil Nadu District Municipalities Act, 1920; or
(iii) a Township Committee constituted under the Tamil Nadu District Municipalities Act, 1920 or the Tamil Nadu Panchayats Act, 1958 or the Mettur Township Act, 1940 or the Courtallam Township Act, 1954 or the Bhavani Sagar Township Act, 1954 or under' any other law for the time being in force; or
(iv) a panchayat constituted under the Tamil Nadu Panchayats Tamil Nadu Act, 1958;
(b) 'person' includes—
(i) any State Government or Union Territory Administration;
(ii) a local authority including a Panchayat Union Council; and
(iii) an individual, a family, a firm, a company or m association or body of individuals, whether incorporated or not." |
