Section 6: Contract, agreement, etc., to be void.

The Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act, 2013Central Act · Act 25 of 2013

(1) Any contract, agreement or other instrument entered into or executed before thedate of commencement of this Act, engaging or employing a person for the purpose ofmanual scavenging shall, on the date of commencement of this Act, be terminated and suchcontract, agreement or other instrument shall be void and inoperative and no compensationshall be payable therefor.

(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), no person employed orengaged as a manual scavenger on a full-time basis shall be retrenched by his employer, butshall be retained, subject to his willingness, in employment on at least the same emoluments,and shall be assigned work other than manual scavenging.

Where this provision sits

Act	The Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act, 2013
Section	6
Marginal note	Contract, agreement, etc., to be void.
Jurisdiction	Central
Status	In force as published by the source

Find the provision, not just read it

The full text above is free, and it stays free. What a free CourtMesh account adds is everything you cannot do by reading one page at a time:

Search 49,000+ Central and State enactments by what a provision says, not by its number
Jump from any section to every judgment that has applied it
Search 300 million+ Indian court records alongside the statute
Ask a research agent to find and read the case law on a provision for you

Free account. No card. About a minute to create.

Create a free account

Need this as data, not as a page? The Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act, 2013 is one of 49,000+ enactments on CourtMesh. The Indian court cases API serves the case law that cites these provisions over JSON, with API documentation and plans and pricing. See also the judgment library.