Cine-workers Welfare Fund Act, 1981
No: 33 Dated: Sep, 17 1981
THE CINE-WORKERS WELFARE FUND ACT, 1981
ACT NO. 33 OF 1981
An Act to provide for the financing of activities to promote the welfare of certain cine-workers.
BE it enacted by Parliament in the Thirty-second Year of the Republic of India as follows:—
1. Short title, extent and commencement.—(1) This Act may be called the Cine-workers Welfare Fund Act, 1981.
(2) It extends to the whole of India.
(3) It shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.
2. Definition.—In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—
(a) “cinematograph film” has the same meaning as in the Cinematograph Act, 1952 (37 of 1952);
(b) “cine-worker” means an individual—
(i) who has been employed, directly or through any contractor or in any other manner, in or in connection with the production of not less than five feature films to work as an artiste (including actor, musician or dancer) or to do any work, skilled, unskilled, manual, supervisory, technical, artistic or otherwise; and
(ii) whose remuneration with respect to such employment in or in connection with the production of each of any five feature films, not being less than the monthly remuneration or lump sum remuneration stipulated prior to the commencement of the Cine-workers Welfare Fund (Amendment) Act, 2001 (56 of 2001), does not exceed such sum, whether monthly or by way of lump sum or instalments, as may be specified by the Central Government by notification in the Official Gazette;
(c) “feature film” means a full length cinematograph film produced wholly or partly in India with a format and a story woven around a number of characters where the plot is revealed mainly through dialogues and not wholly through narration, animation or cartoon depiction and does not include an advertisement film;
(d) “Fund” means the Cine-workers Welfare Fund formed under section 3;
(e) “prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under this Act;
(f) “producer”, in relation to a feature film, means the person by whom arrangements necessary for the making of such film (including the raising of finance and engaging cine-workers for such filmmaking) are undertaken
3. Cine-workers Welfare Fund.—There shall be formed a Fund, to be called the Cine-workers Welfare Fund, and there shall be credited thereto—
(a) such amounts as the Central Government may, after due appropriation made by Parliament by law in this behalf, provide from out of the proceeds of the duty of excise credited under section 5 of the Cine-workers Welfare Cess Act, 1981 (30 of 1981), after deducting therefrom the cost of collection as determined by the Central Government under this Act;
(b) any grants made to the Fund by the Central Government;
(c) any money received as donations for the purposes of this Act;
(d) any income from investment of the amounts in the Fund.