(1) The provision of this chapter shall apply to every establishment in which hundred or more workmen are employed on any day of the preceding twelve months:
Publication at Board level.
Application.
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Provided that the Government may, after giving not less than one months‟ notice of its intention so to do, by notification, apply the provisions of this chapter to any establishment, employing such number of workmen, less than hundred, as may be specified in the notification.
(2) An establishment to which the provisions of this chapter apply, shall continue to be governed by the provisions of this chapter notwithstanding that the number of persons employed therein falls below the number specified under sub-section (1).
38. The Government shall, with effect from such date as may be notified, constitute a fund called the “Industrial Workers‟ Contingency Fund”.
39. Every workmen of an establishment shall contribute every year to the fund such sum, as the Government may prescribe, which shall not be less than one percent of the minimum wages in force for the General Engineering Industry. Every employer shall, in respect of each such workman, contribute a sum equivalent to two times the workman‟s contribution to the fund. It shall be the duty of the employer to remit in such manner, as may be prescribed, the employers contribution together with the contribution of the workmen to such authority as the Government may notify in this behalf.
40. Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force, the employer shall be entitled to deduct the Workman‟s contribution from his wages in such manner, as may be prescribed and such deduction shall be deemed to be a deduction authorised by or under the Payment of Wages Act 1936.
Fund.
Contribution to the Fund.
Deduction.
Central Act 4 of 1936.
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41. Any sum payable to the Fund under this Act, shall, without prejudice to any other mode of recovery be recoverable as arrears of land revenue under the 6Telangana Revenue Recovery Act, 1864.