Kerala Investment Promotion and Facilitation Act, 2018
No: 13 Dated: Apr, 07 2018
THE KERALA INVESTMENT PROMOTION AND FACILITATION ACT, 2018
[Act No. 13 of 2018]
An Act to give effect to certain proposals of the Government of Kerala to avoid delay in granting various licences, permissions, approvals, clearances required under various enactments and to provide for other matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
Whereas, it is expedient to give effect to certain proposals of the Government of Kerala to avoid delay in granting various licences, permissions, approvals, clearances required under various enactments and to provide for other matters connected therewith or incidental thereto;
Be it enacted in the Sixty-ninth Year of the Republic of India, as follows:--
1. Short title and commencement:- (1) This Act may be called the Kerala Investment Promotion and Facilitation Act, 2018.
(2) It shall be deemed to have come into force on the 20th day of October, 2017.
2. Amendment of Act 34 of 1960:- In the Kerala Shops and Commercial Establishments Act, 1960 (34 of 1960), in section 5A, in sub-section (4), after the words "in the prescribed form", the words "on the same day of the receipt of application" shall be inserted.
3. Amendment of Act 20 of 1980:- In the Kerala Head load Workers Act, 1978 (20 of 1980), after section 9, the following section shall be inserted, namely:-
"9A. Engaging the services of head load workers.--
(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, an employer shall engage a head load worker registered under the Act in connection with the work of his establishment:
Provided that in the case of works which require assistance of skilled persons and which are to be done with due diligence or require the aid of machinery, such works may be done by engaging the persons having such skill or by the machinery, as the case may be.
(2) Every Head load worker shall be entitled to wages as prescribed by the Government under the provisions of this Act only if their services have been engaged by the employer or the owner of an establishment.".