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Unit 4: Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1986

(b) examine any person whom he finds in any such premises or place and who, he has Notes
reasonable cause to believe, is a workman employed therein;
(c) require any person giving out work and any workman, to give any information,
which is in his power to give with respect to the names and addresses of the person
to, for and from whom the work is given out or received, and with respect to the
payments to be made for the work;
(d) seize or take copies of such register, record of wages or notices or portions thereof as
he may consider relevant in respect of an offence under this Act which he has reason
to believe has been committed by the principal employer or contractor; and
(e) exercise such other powers as may be prescribed.
(3) Any information required to produce any document or thing or to give any information
required by an inspector under sub-section (2) shall be deemed to be legally bound to do
so within the meaning of section 175 and section 176 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (45 of
1860).
(4) The provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (5 of 1898), shall, so far as may be,
apply to any search or seizure under sub-section (2) as they apply to any search or seizure
made under the authority of a warrant issued under section 98 of the said Code.2

Registers and other records to be maintained

(1) Every principal employer and every contractor shall maintain such register and records
giving such particulars of contract labour employed, the nature of work performed by the
contract labour, the rate of wages paid to the contract labour and such other particulars in
such form as may be prescribed.
(2) Every principal employer and every contractor shall keep exhibited in such manner as
may be prescribed within the premises of the establishment where the contract labour is
employed, notices in the prescribed form containing particulars about the hours of work,
nature of duty and such other information as may be prescribed.

Effect of Laws and Agreements Inconsistent with this Act

(1) The provisions of this Act shall have effect notwithstanding anything inconsistent therewith
contained in any other law or in the terms of any agreement or contract of service, or
in any standing orders applicable to the establishment whether made before or after the
commencement of the Act:
PROVIDED that where under any such agreement, contract of service or standing orders
the contract labour employed, in the establishment are entitled to benefits in respect of

any matter which are more favourable to them than those to which they would be entitled
under this Act, the contract labour shall continue to be entitled to the more favourable

benefits in respect of that matter, notwithstanding that they received benefits in respect of

other matters under this Act.
(2) Nothing contained in this Act shall be construed as precluding any such contract labour
from entering into an agreement with the principal employer or the contractor, as the case
may be, for granting them rights or privileges in respect of any matter which are more
favourable to them than those to which they would be entitled under this Act.

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