(1) The State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette and subject to the condition of previous publication, make rules for carrying out the purposes of this Act.
(2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such rules may be made for all or any of the following matters, namely :- 194 The West Bengal Labour Welfare Fund Act, 1974.
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(a) the intervals at which or the period within which any of the sums referred to in section 3 shall be paid to the fund, the manner of making such payment and the agency for paying or collecting any such sum ;
(b) the manner in which the accounts of the fund shall be maintained and audited under sub-section (4) of section 3;
(c) the procedure for defraying expenditure out of the fund;
(d) The allowances, payable to the members of the Board under sub-section (4) of section 4;
(e) the manner referred to in sub-section (6) of section 4 in which the Board shall conduct its business;
(f) the particulars to be contained in the notice and the other mannner in which such notice is to be displayed under subsection (2) of section 8;
(g) the form for submission of statement under sub-section (7) of section 9;
(h) the condition subject to which penalty may be remitted under the proviso to sub-section (2) of section 10;
(0 the terms and conditions of service of the Welfare Commissioner referred to in sub-section (1) of section 15;
(I) the terms and conditions of service of the Inspectors and their powers referred to in section 16;
(k) delegation of powers and functions of the Board to the Welfare Commissioner and the conditions and limitations subject to which such powers may be exercised or functions discharged;
the registers and records to be maintained and returns to be sent to the State Government by the Board under this Act;
(ln) the publication of the report of the activities financed from the fund together with a statement of receipts and expenditure of the fund and a statement of accounts;
(n) any other matter which under this Act is required to be or may be prescribed.
195 The West Bengal Labour Welfare Fund Act, 1974.
[West Ben. Act XXXVIII of 1974.]
Members of Board, Welfare Commissioner, Inspectors and all officers and employees of Board to be public servants.
(Sections 25-28.)
25. The members of the Board, the Welfare Commissioner, the Inspectors and all other officers and other employees of the Board shall be deemed to be public servants within the meaning of section 21 of the Indian Penal Code.
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26. No suit, prosecution or other legal proceeding shall lie against any person for anything which is in good faith done or intended to be done under this Act.
Exemptions. 27. The State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, exempt any class of establishments from all or any of the provisions of this Act subject to such conditions as may be specified in the notification.
28. In section 8 of the Payment of Wages Act, 1936, in its application to West Bengal, to sub-section (8), the following proviso shall be added before the Explanation, namely:-.-- "Provided that in the case of any establishment to which the West Bengal Labour Welfare Fund Act, 1974, applies, all such realisations shall be paid into the fund constituted under the said Act.".
Protection to persons acting in good faith.
Amendment of section 8 of Act 4 of 1936.
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