THE TAMIL NADU MANUAL WORKERS (REGULATION OF EMPLOYMENT AND CONDITIONS OF WORK) AMENDMENT ACT, 1998
Act No. 60 of 1998
An Ac further to amend the Tamil Nadu Man.ua! Workers (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Work) Act, 1982.
BB it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Tamil Nadu in the Forty-ninth Year of the Republic of India as fellows:—
1. Short title and commencements.
(1) This Act may be called the Tamil Nadu Manual Workers (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Work) Amendment Act, 1998.
(2) It shall come into force at once.
2. Amendment of section 2.
In section 2 of the Tamil Nadu Manual Workers (Regulation of Employment and Conations of Work) Act, 1982 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act), in clause (10), for the expression "and registered as such manual worker under this Act, but does not include any member of the family of an employer”, the following shall be substituted, namely:-
“and a person who directly engages himself in any scheduled employment but does not include any member of the family of an employer or any employee who is in the enjoyment of benefits by or under the Employees state Insurance Act, 1948 (Central Act XXXIV of 1948) or the Employees Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952 (Central Act XIX of 1925.”
3. Insertion of new section 8-B.
After section 8-A of the principal Act, the following section shall be inserted, namely:—
“8-B. Contribution to Fund for benefit of manual workers other than "those employed in construction or maintenance of dams, bridges, roads, or in any building operations.— (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in any law for the time being in force or any agreement, but save as otherwise provided in section 8 A,—
(a) every employer other than an employer operating a motor transport for carrying passengers or goods by roads, employing manual worker in any scheduled employment, shall be liable to pay, within such time as may be prescribed, to the Board established under section 6, for the scheduled employments, other than the scheduled employment in construction or maintenance of dams, bridges, roads or in any building operations, every month a sum at such rate not exceeding three per cent of the wages payable by him to such manual worker, as may be fixed by the Government by notification;
(b) every employer operating any motor transport for carrying passengers , or goods by roads, shall be liable to pay, in. addition to the tax payable by him under the Tamil Nadu Motor Vehicles Taxation Act, 1974 (Tamil Nadir Act 13 of 1974) (hereafter in this section referred to as the said Act), a sum at such rate not exceeding one per cent of the tax payable by him under the said Act, as may be fixed by the Government by notification;
(c) every manual worker in any scheduled employment other than the scheduled employment in construction or maintenance of dams, bridges, roads or in any building operations, shall pay a sum of rupees twenty per month in such manner and within such time as may be specified in the scheme;
(d) the Government may, from time to time, make grants to the Board on such terms and conditions as the Government may, in each ease, determine,
as contribution to the Fund constituted for the benefit of manual workers in the scheduled employments under a scheme framed under this Act, other than those employed in construction or maintenance of dams, bridges, roads or in any building operations.
(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in any law for the time being in force, every Officer appointed under the said Act shall, while collecting the tax under the said Act, also collect the sum specified under Sub-section (1) and remit such sum within ninety days from the date of collection of such sum to the Board referred to in sub-section (1), in such manner as may be specified in the scheme.
(3) Any sum paid under sub-section (1) or remitted under sub-section (2) shall be credited to the Fund constituted for the benefit of the manual workers, under a scheme framed under this Act, other than those employed in construction at maintenance of dams, bridges, roads or in any building operations. |
