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The Building and Other Construction Workers (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act

An Act to regulate the employment and conditions of service of building and other construction workers and to provide for their safety, health and welfare measures and for other matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
1996
List of Chapters & Sections

  1. PRELIMINARY

  2. 1
     Short title, extent, commencement and application
  3. 2
     Definitions

  • THE ADVISORY COMMITTEES AND EXPERT COMMITTEES

  • 3
     Central Advisory Committee
  • 4
     State Advisory Committee
  • 5
     Expert committees

  • REGISTRATION OF ESTABLISHMENTS

  • 6
     Appointment of registering officers
  • 7
     Registration of establishments
  • 8
     Revocation of registration in certain cases
  • 9
     Appeal
  • 10
     Effect of non-registration

  • REGISTRATION OF BUILDING WORKERS AS BENEFICIARIES

  • 11
     Beneficiaries of the Fund
  • 12
     Registration of building workers as beneficiaries
  • 13
     Identity cards
  • 14
     Cessation as a beneficiary
  • 15
     Register of beneficiaries
  • 16
     Contribution of building workers
  • 17
     Effect of non-payment of contribution

  • BUILDING AND OTHER CONSTRUCTION WORKERS’ WELFARE BOARDS

  • 18
     Constitution of State Welfare Boards
  • 19
     Secretary and other officers of Boards
  • 20
     Meetings of Boards
  • 21
     Vacancies, etc., not to invalidate proceedings of the Boards
  • 22
     Functions of the Boards
  • 23
     Grants and loans by the Central Government
  • 24
     Building and Other Construction Workers’ Welfare Fund and its application
  • 25
     Budget
  • 26
     Annual report
  • 27
     Accounts and audit

  • HOURS OF WORK, WELFARE MEASURES AND OTHER CONDITIONS OF SERVICE OF BUILDING WORKERS

  • 28
     Fixing hours for normal working day, etc
  • 29
     Wages for overtime work
  • 30
     Maintenance of registers and records
  • 31
     Prohibition of employment of certain persons in certain building or other construction work
  • 32
     Drinking water
  • 33
     Latrines and urinals
  • 34
     Accommodation
  • 35
     Creches
  • 36
     First-ai
  • 37
     Canteens, etc

  • SAFETY AND HEALTH MEASURES

  • 38
     Safety Committee and safety officer
  • 39
     Notice of certain accidents
  • 40
     . Power of appropriate Government to make rules for the safety and health of building workers
  • 41
     Framing of model rules for safety measures

  • INSPECTING STAFF

  • 42
     Appointment of Director-General, Chief Inspector and Inspectors
  • 43
     Powers of Inspectors

  • SPECIAL PROVISIONS

  • 44
     Responsibility of employer
  • 45
     Responsibility for payment of wages and compensatio
  • 46
     Notice of commencement of building or other construction work

  • PENALTIES AND PROCEDURE

  • 47
     Penalty for contravention of provisions regarding safety measures
  • 48
     Penalty for failure to give notice of the commencement of the building or other construction work
  • 49
     Penalty for obstruction
  • 50
     Penalty for other offence
  • 51
     Appeal
  • 52
     Recovery of penalty
  • 53
     Offences by companie
  • 54
     Cognizance of offence
  • 55
     Limitation of prosecution

  • MISCELLANEOUS

  • 56
     Delegation of power
  • 57
     Return
  • 58
     Application of Act 8 of 1923 to building workers
  • 59
     Protection of action taken in good fait
  • 60
     Power of Central Government to give directions
  • 61
     Power to remove difficulties
  • 62
     Power to make rules
  • 63
     Saving of certain laws
  • 64
     Repeal and savin