In the Kerala Headload Workers Act, 1978 (20 . of 1980), after section 9, the ft>llowing section 'shall be. · msCrted. namely:- · · "9A. Engaging the services of headload workers.~~) Subject to the provisions of this Act, an employer shall engage a headload worker registered under the Act in connection with the work of his establishment:
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f t i ·- 3 · Provided that in the ca5e of works whic~ 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 pcrs0ns having such skill or by. the machinery, as ·the case may be .
. (2) Every Headload worker shall be entitled to wages as prescnl>ed by the Government under the provisions of this Act only if their services have been engaged by the employer or .t~e owner of an .establishment".
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4. Pow~ to make 'rotes."-{!) The Government may, by notification in the Gazette make rules either prospectively or retrospectively for the purposes of carrying into effect the pro~sions of. this Act.
(2) Every rule made under this Act shall ~ laid. as soon as may ·• be after ·it is made, before the J,Cgislative Assembly, while it is. in ses5ion for a totaJ period of fourteen· days which may be comprised in one session or in two successive sessions, and if. before the expiry of the session. in which it is so laid or the session · immediately following, the Legislative Assembly makes any· modification in the rule or decides that the rule should not be made, the' rule s~ll thereafter h.ave effect only in such modified fonn 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 previ9usly done under that rule. .