The Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Act, 1946

Section 11. Certifying Officers and appellate authorities to have powers of civil court

(1) Every Certifying Officer and appellate authority shall have all the powers of a civil court for the proposes of receiving evidence, administering oaths, enforcing the attendance of witnesses, and compelling the discovery and production of documents, and shall be deemed to be a civil court within the meaning of 6[sections 345 and 346 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974).]

11[(2) Clerical or arithmetical mistakes in any order passed by Certifying Officer or appellate authority, or errors arising therein from any accidental slip or omission may, at any time, be corrected by that officer or authority or the successor in office of such officer or authority, as the case may be.]

Section 12. Oral evidence in contradiction of standing orders not admissible

No oral evidence having the effect of adding to or otherwise varying or contradicting standing order as finally certified under this Act shall be admitted in any court.

Section 12A. Temporary application of model standing orders

(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in sections 3 to 12, for the period commencing on the date on which this Act becomes applicable to an industrial establishment and ending with the date on which the standing orders as finally certified under this Act come into operation under section 7 in that establishment, the prescribed model standing order shall be deemed to be adopted in that establishment, and the provisions of section 9, sub-section (2) of section 13 and section 13A shall apply to such model standing orders as they apply to the standing orders so certified.

(2) Nothing contained in sub-section (1) shall apply to an industrial establishment in respect of which the appropriate government is the Government of the State of Gujarat or the Government of the State of Maharashtra.]

Section 13. Penalties and procedure

(1) An employer who fails to submit draft standing orders as required by section 3, or who modifies his standing orders otherwise than in accordance with section 10, shall be punishable with fine which may extend to five thousand rupees, and in the case of a continuing offence with a further fine which may extend to two hundred rupees for every day after the first during which the offence continues.

(2) An employer who does any act in contravention of the standing orders finally certified under this Act or his industrial establishment shall be punishable with fine which may extend to one hundred rupees, and in the case of a continuing offence with a further fine which may extend to twenty-five rupees for every day after the first during which the offence continues.

(3) No prosecution for an offence punishable under this section shall be instituted except with the previous sanction of the appropriate government.

(4) No court inferior to that of 6[a Metropolitan Magistrate or Judicial Magistrate of the second class] shall try any offence under this section.

Section 13A. Interpretation, etc., of standing orders

If any question arises as to the application or interpretation of a standing order certified under this Act, any employer or workman 9[or a trade union or other representative body of the workmen], may refer the question to any of the Labor Courts constituted under the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (14 of 1947), and specified for the disposal of such proceeding by the appropriate government by notification in the Official Gazette, and the Labor Court to which the question is so referred shall after giving the parties an opportunity of being heard, decide the question and such decision shall be final and binding on the parties.]

Section 13B. Act not to apply to certain industrial establishments

Nothing in this Act shall apply to an industrial establishment insofar as the workmen employed therein are persons to whom the Fundamental and Supplementary Rules, Civil Services (Classification, Control and Appeal) Rules, Civil Services (Temporary Services) Rules, Revised Leave Rules, Civil Service Regulations, Civilians in Defense Service (Classification, Control and Appeal) Rules or the Indian Railway Establishment Code or any other rules or regulations that may be notified in this behalf by the appropriate government in the official Gazette, apply.]

Section 14. Power to exempt

The appropriate government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, exempt, conditionally or unconditionally, any industrial establishment or class of industrial establishments from all or any of the provisions of this Act.

Section 14A. Delegation of powers

The appropriate government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, direct that any power exercisable by it under this Act or any rules made thereunder shall, in relation to such matters and subject to such conditions, if any, as may be specified in the direction, be exercisable also-

(a) where the appropriate government is the Central Government, by such officer or authority subordinate to the Central Government or by the State Government or by such officer or authority subordinate to the State Government, as may be specified in the notification;

(b) where the appropriate government is a State Government, by such office or authority subordinate to the State Government as may be specified in the notification.

Section 15. Power to make rules

(1) The appropriate government may, after previous publication, by notification in the Official Gazette, make rules to carry out the purposes of this Act.

(2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such rules may-

(a) prescribe additional matters to be included in the Schedule, and the procedure to be followed in modifying standing orders certified under this Act in accordance with any such addition;

(b) set out model standing orders for the purposes of this Act;

(c) prescribe the procedure of Certifying Officers and appellate authorities;

(d) prescribe the fee which may be charged for copies of standing orders entered in the register of standing orders;

(e) provide for any other matter which is to be or may be prescribed:

PROVIDED that before any rule are made under clause (a) representatives of both employers and workmen shall be consulted by the appropriate government.

22[(3) Every rule made by the Central Government under this section shall be laid as soon as may be after it is made, before each House of parliament while it is in session for a total period of thirty days which may be comprised in one session or in two or more successive sessions, and if, before the expiry of the session immediately following the session or the successive sessions aforesaid both Houses agree in making any modification in the rule or, both Houses agree that the rule should not be made, the rule shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be; so however that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that rule.]

Schedule : Matters to be provided in Standing Orders Under this Act

The Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Act, 1946
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