Beedi and Cigar Workers (Conditions of Employment) Rules, 1967

No: -- Dated: Jan, 01 1967

The Beedi and Cigar Workers (Conditions of Employment) Rules, 1967

CHAPTER I

Preliminary

1. Short title. - These rules may be called the Beedi and Cigar Workers (Conditioned of Employment) Rules 1967.

2. Definition. - In these Rules unless the context otherwise requires. -

(a) "Act" means the Beedi and Cigar Workers (Conditions of Employment) Act, 1966 (Central Act 32 of 1966);

(b) "Form" means a Form appended to these Rules;

(c) "Section" means a section of the Act.

CHAPTER II

Licensing of Industrial Premises

3. Form of application for grant of licence and licence fees. - (1) Every application under sub-section (1) of Section 4 for a licence to use or allowed to be used any place or premises as an industrial premises shall be made in duplicate in Form I.

(2) The application shall be accompanied by the following documents namely :

(a) Plans in triplicate, showing-

(i) the site of such place or premises, the areas therein to be used for manufacturing processes and the immediate surroundings of such place or premises, including adjacent buildings structures roads, drains and the like; and

(ii) the plant, elevation and necessary cross sections of the details relating to natural lighting ventilation, means of escape in case of fire, position of the plant and machinery, if any, used, aisles end, passage-ways in or in relation to the various buildings which are intended to be used for manufacturing processes;

(b) the treasury receipt showing that the appropriate fee for the licence as specified in Rule 8 has been paid.

(3) The application in duplicate together with the documents specified in sub-rule (2) shall be sent by registered post or delivered by hand under acknowledgement to the competent authority.

4. Application for renewal. - (1) Every application for renewal of a licence under Section 4 shall be made in Form 1. The application shall be accompanied by the following documents, namely :

(a) the licence sought to be renewed;

(b) the treasury receipt showing that the appropriate fee for the renewal of the license specified in Rule 8 has been paid.

(2) The application together with the documents specified in sub-rule (2) shall be sent by registered post or delivered by hand under acknowledgement due to the competent authority.

5. Form and terms and conditions of licence. - (1) A licence under Section 4 shall be in Form II.

(2) Every licence granted or renewed under Section 4 shall be subject to the following conditions namely:

(i) the manufacturing process shall be carried on only in that part of the industrial premises specified for the purpose in the licence;

(ii) the maximum number of employees employed in the industrial premises shall not on any day exceed the number specified in the licence;

(iii) power-driven machinery not specified in the licence shall not be used in the manufacturing process in the premises;

(iv) except with the prior permission in writing of the competent authority the industrial premises shall not be extended and except with the like permission, no structural alterations shall be made in any building Or such premises;

(v) the licence shall not be transferable;

(vi) except as provided in Rule 9, the fees paid for the grant, or as the case may be, renewal of the licence shall be non-refundable.

6. Issue of duplicate licences. - (1) If a licence under Section 4 is lost, stolen or destroyed, the licensee shall forthwith report the matter to the competent authority by whom the licence was issued or, as the case may be last renewed and may make an application to that authority for the issue of a duplicate licence.

(2) The application shall be accompanied by a treasure receipt showing that the fee for the issue of a duplicate licence as specified in Rule 8 has been paid.

(3) On receipt of the application, the competent authority shall grant to the applicant a duplicate copy of the licence duly stamped "duplicate" in red ink.

7. Appeal under Section 5. - An appeal under Section 5 of the Act shall-

(a) be made in writing within a period of thirty days from the date of receipt of the order sought to be appealed against;

(b) be accompanied by a treasury receipt showing that the appropriate fee in respect of the appeal as specified in Rule 8 has been paid.