(1) No court shall take cognizance of any offence made punishable by a scheme or of any abetment thereof, except on complaint, in writing, made by an Inspector or by a person specially authorised in this behalf by the Board or Government.
(2) Notwithstanding anything in the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, an offence made punishable by a scheme or an abetment thereof shall be triable only by a magistrate of the first class.
18. The provisions of the Workmen’s Compensation Act, 1923, and the rules made, from time to time, thereunder, shall mutatis mutandis apply to unprotected workers employed in any scheduled employment to which this Act applies; and for that purpose they shall be deemed to be Prohibition of employment of Children.
Cognizance of offences.
Central Act 45 of 1860.
Application of Workmen’s Compensation Act to unprotected workers.
Central Act 8 of 1923.
Central Act 2 of 1974.
14 [Act No.61 of 1976] workmen within the meaning of that Act; and relation to such workmen, employer shall mean where a Board makes payment of wages to any such workmen, the Board, and in any other case, the employer as defined in this Act.