The BUILDING AND OTHER CONSTRUCTION WORKERS (REGULATION OF EMPLOYMENT AND CONDITIONS OF SERVICE) ACT, 1996

PRELIMINARY

Section 1 — Short title, extent, commencement and application.

(1) This Act may be called the Building and Other Construction Workers (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1996.

(2) It extends to the whole of India.

(3) It shall be deemed to have come into force on the 1st day of March, 1996.

(4) It applies to every establishment which employs, or had employed on any day of the preceding twelve months, ten or more building workers in any building or other construction work.

Explanation.—For the purposes of this sub-section, the building workers employed in different relays in a day either by the employer or the contractor shall be taken into account in computing the number of building workers employed in the establishment.

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  1. 1.Short title, extent, commencement and application.
  2. 2.Definitions.
  3. 3.Central Advisory Committee.
  4. 4.State Advisory Committee.
  5. 5.Expert committees.
  6. 6.Appointment of registering officers.
  7. 7.Registration of establishments.
  8. 8.Revocation of registration in certain cases.
  9. 9.Appeal.
  10. 10.Effect of non-registration.
  11. 11.Beneficiaries of the Fund.
  12. 12.Registration of building workers as beneficiaries.
  13. 13.Identity cards.
  14. 14.Cessation as a beneficiary.
  15. 15.Register of beneficiaries.
  16. 16.Contribution of building workers.
  17. 17.Effect of non-payment of contribution.
  18. 18.Constitution of State Welfare Boards.
  19. 19.Secretary and other officers of Boards.
  20. 20.Meetings of Boards.
  21. 21.Vacancies, etc., not to invalidate proceedings of the Boards.
  22. 22.Functions of the Boards.
  23. 23.Grants and loans by the Central Government.
  24. 24.Building and Other Construction Workers’ Welfare Fund and its application.
  25. 25.Budget.
  26. 26.Annual report.
  27. 27.Accounts and audit.
  28. 28.Fixing hours for normal working day, etc.
  29. 29.Wages for overtime work.
  30. 30.Maintenance of registers and records.
  31. 31.Prohibition of employment of certain persons in certain building or other construction work.
  32. 32.Drinking water.
  33. 33.Latrines and urinals.
  34. 34.Accommodation.
  35. 35.Creches.
  36. 36.First-aid.
  37. 37.Canteens, etc.
  38. 38.Safety Committee and safety officers.
  39. 39.Notice of certain accidents.
  40. 40.Power of appropriate Government to make rules for the safety and health of building workers.
  41. 41.Framing of model rules for safety measures.
  42. 42.Appointment of Director-General, Chief Inspector and Inspectors.
  43. 43.Powers of Inspectors.
  44. 44.Responsibility of employers.
  45. 45.Responsibility for payment of wages and compensation.
  46. 46.Notice of commencement of building or other construction work.
  47. 47.Penalty for contravention of provisions regarding safety measures.
  48. 48.Penalty for failure to give notice of the commencement of the building or other construction work.
  49. 49.Penalty for obstructions.
  50. 50.Penalty for other offences.
  51. 51.Appeal.
  52. 52.Recovery of penalty.
  53. 53.Offences by companies.
  54. 54.Cognizance of offences.
  55. 55.Limitation of prosecutions.
  56. 56.Delegation of powers.
  57. 57.Returns.
  58. 58.Application of Act 8 of 1923 to building workers.
  59. 59.Protection of action taken in good faith.
  60. 60.Power of Central Government to give directions.
  61. 61.Power to remove difficulties.
  62. 62.Power to make rules.
  63. 63.Saving of certain laws.
  64. 64.Repeal and saving.