Section 16: Power to modify provisions of this Act or other enactments in relation to Special Economic Zones.

(1) The Government may, by notification, direct that any of the provisions of this Act (other than section 12) or any other State Act, any rules or regulations made thereunder or any notification or order issued or direction given thereunder (other than the provisions relating to making of the rules or regulations) specified in the notification— (a) shall not apply to a Special Economic Zone or a class of Special Economic Zones or all Special Economic Zones; or (b) shall apply to a Special Economic Zone or a class of Special Economic Zones or all Special Economic Zones only with such exceptions, modification and adaptation, as may be specified in the notification: Provided that nothing contained in this section shall apply to any modifications of any State Act or any rules or regulations made thereunder or any notification or order issued or direction given or scheme made thereunder so far as such modification, rule, regulation, notification, order or direction or scheme relates to the matters relating to trade unions, industrial and labour disputes, welfare of labour including conditions of work, provident funds, employers’ liability, workmen’s compensation, invalidity and old age pensions and maternity benefits applicable in any Special Economic Zones. (2) A copy of every notification proposed to be issued under sub-section (1), shall be laid in draft before the Legislative Assembly, 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, the Assembly agrees in disapproving the issue of the notification or the Assembly agrees in making any modification in the notification, the notification shall not be issued or, as the case may be, shall be issued only in such modified form as may be agreed by the Assembly.