(1) This Act may be called the Maharashtra Mathadi, Hamal and other [Manual Workers] (Regulation of Employment and Welfare) Act, 1969.
(2) It extends to the whole of the State of Maharashtra.
(3) It applies to the employments specified in the Schedule hereto.
(4) It shall come into force on such date as the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint and different dates may be appointed for different areas, and for different employments, and for different provisions of the Act.
[(4A) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (4), and in Government Notification, Industries and Labour Department, No. UMA.1272/Lab-IV, dated the 28th March 1972, this Act shall be deemed to have come into force in the areas specified in column 2 of the Table below on the dates and in respect of the employments specified in columns 3 and 4 against each such areas in the said Table, respectively.
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Serial No. Areas Date Name of the employment (1) (2) (3) (4) 1 ( a ) Thane and Kalyan Talukas of the Thane District; and Panvel Taluka of the Kulaba (now Raigad) District. 26 th day of December 1979. ( 1 ) Employment in Grocery Market or Shops, in connection with loading, unloading, stacking, carrying, weighting, measuring (filling, stitching, sorting, cleaning) or such other work including work preparatory or incidental to such operations. (b) The whole of the Thane and Raigad Districts excluding the Thane and Kalyan Talukas of the Thane District and Panvel Taluka of the Raigad District. 1 st day of August 1983. ( 2 ) Employment in markets and other establishments, in connection with loading, unloading, stacking, carrying, weighing, measuring (filling, stitching, sorting, cleaning) of soda ash, coaltar, lime, colour chemicals, chemical products including fertilizers, gunny bags, coir ropes, ropes, mats, hessian cloth, hessian yarn, oil cake, husk chuni and chhal or such other work including work preparatory or incidental to such operations. ( 3 ) Employment in onion and potato wholesale markets in connection with loading, unloading, stacking, carrying, weighing, measuring (filling, stitching, sorting, cleaning) or such other work including work preparatory or incidental to such operations. ( 4 ) Employment in factories and mills manufacturing grocery products if such employment is connected with loading, unloading, stacking, carrying, weighing, measuring (filling, stitching, sorting, cleaning) or such other work including work preparatory or incidental to such operations carried on by workers covered by entry 5 in the Schedule to this Act. ( 5 ) Employment in factories and mills manufacturing colour chemicals, products including fertilizers, if such employment is in connection with loading, unloading, stacking, carrying weighing, measuring (filling, stitching, sorting, cleaning) or such other work including work preparatory or incidental to such operations carried on by workers covered by entry 5 in the Schedule to this Act. 2 Thane District 15 th day of July 1979. Employment in cloth markets or shop in connection with loading, unloading, stacking, carrying, weighing, measuring or such other work including work preparatory or incidental to such operations. 3 Thane District 1 st day of April 1981. Employment in the cotton markets and godowns and in the cotton ginning and pressing factories, cotton waste factories and godowns thereof in connection with the loading, unloading, stacking, carrying, weighing, measuring, filling, stitching, sorting, cleaning or such other work including work preparatory or incidental to such operations (any such work being work requiring handling of cotton, cotton-waste, wool-waste, wool-tops, yarn-tops, chindi, mendi, nylon and rayon-waste, terry-cotton, lintre or gunny bags.) 4 ( a ) Thane Taluka of the Thane District. (b) All the remaining area in Thane District, Panvel and Karjat Talukas of the Raigad District. 1 st day of June 1972. 1 st day of October 1982. Employment in iron and steel markets or shops, yards including railway yards, goods-sheds, factories and other establishments in connection with loading, unloading, stacking, carrying, weighing, measuring iron and steel or such other work including work preparatory or incidental to such operations. 5 Thane Taluka of the Thane District and Panvel Taluka of the Raigad District. 1 st day of January 1983. Employment in metal (excluding iron and steel) including employment in steel furniture markets or shops and paper markets or shops and other establishments in the trades in connection with loading, unloading, stacking, carrying, weighing, measuring or such other work including work preparatory or incidental to such operations. 6 Thane District 10 th day of January 1983. Employment in railway yards and goodsheds in connection with loading, unloading, stacking, carrying, weighting or measuring by the workers who are not employed by the railway authorities, or such other work including work preparatory or incidental to such operations.]