Maharashtra CLRA applicable to 50 & more worker

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As per the MGG on the 5th Jan 2017 the applicability of CLRA Act on Contractor & Establishment is amended and is published now, after having received the assent of the President

MAHARASHTRA ACT No. II OF 2017.

(First published, after having received the assent of the President in the

“Maharashtra Government Gazette”, on the 5th January 2017).

An Act further to amend the Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970, in its application to the State of Maharashtra. WHEREAS it is expedient further to amend the Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970, in its application to the State of Maharashtra, for the purposes hereinafter appearing; it is hereby enacted in the Sixty-seventh Year of the Republic of India as follows :—

1. This Act may be called the Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) (Maharashtra Amendment) Act, 2016.

2. In section 1 of the Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970, in its application to the State of Maharashtra, in sub-section (4),— 

(a) in clause (a), for the words “twenty or more workmen” the words “fifty or more workmen” shall be substituted ;

(b) in clause (b), for the words “twenty or more workmen” the words “fifty or more workmen” shall be substituted ;

(c) in the proviso, for the words “less than twenty” the words “less than fifty” shall be substituted.