Assam Private Placement Agencies for Recruitment of Workers (Regulation) Act, 2019
No: 10 Dated: Sep, 04 2019
THE ASSAM PRIVATE PLACEMENT AGENCIES FOR RECRUITMENT OF WORKERS (REGULATION) ACT, 2019
ASSAM ACT NO. X OF 2019
An Act to provide for the regulation of Private Placement Agencies operating their business or willing to commence their business in tke State of Assam for recruitment of workers and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
Preamble:- Whereas it is expedient to provide for the regulation of Private Placement Agencies operating their business or willing to commence their business in the State of Assam for recruitment of workers and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto;
It is hereby enacted in the Seventieth Year of the Republic ofIndia as follows :-
1. Short title, extent and. commencement:-(1) This Act may be called the Assam Private Placement Agencies for Recruitment of Workers (Regulation) Act, 2019.
(2) It extends to the whole of Assam.
(3) It shall come into force on such date as the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.
2. Defmitions:- (1) (a) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires-
(a) "Appellate Authority" means an Officer of the State Labour Welfare Department, Government of Assam not below the rank of Secretary to the Government of Assam to hear appeal under this Act;
(b) "Controlling Authority" means Labour Commissioner, Assam or any other Officer of the State Labour Welfare Department, Government of Assam to be notified specifically for the purpose of this Act;
(c) "Establishment" means an Establishment as defined under section 2(8) of the Assam Shops And Establishments Act, 1971;
(d) "Government" means the Government of Assam;
(e) "Inspector" means the Inspector appointed under section 7;
(f) "License" means a license granted under section 5;
(g) "Notification" means a Notification published in the Official Gazette;
(h) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;
(i) "Private Placement Agency" means a person or body of persons other than a Government Agency, Department or Organization engaged in the business of providing / supplying unskilled, semi-skilled, skilled and highly skilled workers to any person, Establishment, Government Department, Semi-Government Department and Government Undertaking and Semi-Government Undertaking within the State of Assam or in any other State of India or outside India;
(j) "Women" means a woman as defined under section 10 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860.
(k) "Worker" means a person engaged, through Private Placement Agency, to do any unskilled, semiskilled, skilled and highly skilled works, which term shall also include Domestic Workers;
(2) The words "unskilled", "semi-skilled", "skilled" and "highly skilled" respectively, used in this Act shall mean and imply the same meanings to the said terms as determined by the Government, by order, from time to time.
(3) Words and expressions used in this Act and not defined shall have the same meanings as defined under any other corresponding law for the time being in force.
3. Appointment of the Controlling Authority:- The State Government shall, by Notification in the Official Gazette appoint the Labour Commissioner, Assam to be the Controlling Authority for the purpose of this Act.
4. Persons or Private placement Agency not to operate without License:- No person or Private Placement Agency shall carry out or commence the business of Private Placement Agency, unless he holds a License issued under this Act:
Provided that a Private Placement Agency which came into existence before the commencement of this Act, shall obtain a License as required under this Act within 90 (Ninety) days of the commencement of this Act.