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Unit 5: The Contract of Employment

4. State Advisory Board: (1) The State Government may constitute a board to be called the Notes
State Advisory Contract Labour Board (hereinafter referred to as the State Board) to advise
the State Government on such matters arising out of the administration of this Act as may
be referred to it and to carry out other functions assigned to it under this Act.
(2) The State Board shall consist of–(a) a Chairman to be appointed by the State
Government; (b) the Labour Commissioner, ex-officio, or in his absence any other
officer nominated by the State Government in that behalf; (c) such number of members,
not exceeding eleven but not less than nine, as the State Government may nominate
to represent that Government, the industry, the contractors, the workmen and any
other interests which, in the opinion of the State Government, ought to be represented
on the State Board.

(3) The number of persons to be appointed as members from each of the categories
specified in sub-section (2), the term of office and other conditions of service of, the
procedure to be followed in the discharge of their functions by, and the manner of
filling vacancies among, the members of the State Board shall be such as may be
prescribed:
Provided that the number of members nominated to represent the workmen shall
not be less than the number of members nominated to represent the principal
employers and the contractors.
5. Power to constitute committees: (1) The Central Board or the State Board, as the case may
be, may constitute such committees and for such purpose or purposes as it may think fit.
(2) The committee constituted under sub-section (1) shall meet at such times and places
and shall observe such rules of procedure in regard to the transaction of business at
its meetings as may be prescribed.
(3) The members of a committee shall be paid such fees and allowances for attending its
meetings as may be prescribed:
Provided that no fees shall be payable to a member who is an officer of Government
or of any corporation established by any law for the time being in force.

6. Appointment of registering officers: The appropriate Government may, by an order notified
in the Official Gazette – (a) appoint such persons, being Gazetted Officers of Government,
as it thinks fit to be registering officers for the purposes of this Chapter; and (b) define the
limits, within which a registering officer shall exercise the powers conferred on him by or
under this Act.
7. Registration of certain establishments: (1) Every principal employer of an establishment
to which this Act applies shall, within such period as the appropriate Government may, by
notification in the Official Gazette, fix in this behalf with respect to establishments generally
or with respect to any class of them, make an application to the registering officer in the
prescribed manner for registration of the establishment:
Provided that the registering officer may entertain any such application for registration
after expiry of the period fixed in this behalf, if the registering officer is satisfied that the
applicant was prevented by sufficient cause from making the application in time.
(2) If the application for registration is complete in all respects, the registering officer
shall register the establishment and issue to the principal employer of the
establishment a certificate of registration containing such particulars as may be
prescribed.

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