Assam Tea Plantations Employees Welfare Fund Act, 1959

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    "title": "Assam Tea Plantations Employees Welfare Fund Act, 1959",
    "short_title": "Assam Tea Plantations Employees Welfare Fund Act, 1959",
    "act_number": "(Assam Act No. 16 of 1960)",
    "act_year": 1959,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Assam",
    "law_status": "unknown",
    "enactment_date": null,
    "description": "Assam Tea Plantations Employees Welfare Fund Act, 1959",
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        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Short title, extent and commencement.",
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            "number": "2",
            "title": "2. Definitions.",
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            "content": "(1) \"Board\" means the Assam Employees Welfare Board constituted under section 4;\n(2) \"Employees\" means any person who is employed in or in connection with a plantation for hire or reward to do any kind of work in or in connection with a plantation; but does not include those drawing wages more than Rupees 500 per month.\n(3) \"Employer\" means any person who employs either directly or indirectly any person to do any work in or in connection With a plantation and include a Manager, Superintendent, Proprietor, Agent, Director or Managing Director in-charge of or having the ultimate control over a plantation.\n(4) \"Fund\" means the Assam Employees Welfare Fund constituted under section 3;\n(5) \"Inspector\" means an Inspector appointed under section 11;\n(6) \"Plantation\" means a tea plantation and shall include all tea estates registered under the Tea Art, 1953 (Act 29 of 1953).\n(7) \"Provident Fund\" means a hind as defined in section 2(./) of the Assam Tea Plantations Provident 1 and Scheme Act, 1955 (Assam Act X of 1955);\n(8) \"Preset ibed\" means prescribed by rules mace under this Act,\n(9) \"Unpaid accumulation\" means all payments due to the employee but not made to them within a period of three years from the date they become due whether before or after the commencement of this Act including the wages, bonus or gratuity.\n(10) \"Wages\" means wage as defined in section 2(A) of the Minimum Wages Act, 1918 (Act 11 of 1948;;\n(11) \"Welfare Commissioner\" means the Welfare Commissioner appointed under section 10;",
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        {
            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Welfare Fund.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) all fines realised from the employees in the course of management of the plantation;\n(b) all unpaid accumulations;\n(c) all grants from the Stale or Central Government or the Tea Board constituted under the Tea Act, 1953 (Act 29 of 1953);\n(d) any voluntary donations;\n(e) any sum borrowed under section 8;\n(f) any sum unclaimed or forfeited in the Provident Fund Account of the employees.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "4",
            "title": "4. Constitution of the Board.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) such number as may be prescribed, of representatives of employers and employees to be nominated by the State Government:\n(b) such number of independent Members as may be prescribed nominated by the Slate Government of which at least one shall be woman;\n(c) such number of officials as may be prescribed, nominated by Government of whom one shall be Chairman:",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "5",
            "title": "5. Disqualification and removal.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) is a salaried official of the Board; or,\n(b) is or at any time has been adjudged insolvent or has suspended payment of his debts or has compounded with his creditors; or\n(c) is found to be a lunatic or becomes of unsound mind; or\n(d) is or has been convicted of any offence involving moral turpitude.\n(a) is or has become subject to any of the disqualifications mentioned in sub-section (1); or\n(b) is absent without leave of the Board for more than three consecutive meetings of the Board.",
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        {
            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Resignation of office by member and filling up of casual vacancies.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "7",
            "title": "7. Vesting and application of Fund.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) Adult education and literacy drive;\n(b community and social education centres including reading rooms and libraries;\n(c) community necessities;\n(d) games and sports;\n(e) excursions, tours and holiday homes;\n(f) entertainment and other forms of recreations;\n(g) home industries and subsidiary occupations for women and unemployed persons;\n(h) corporate activities of a social nature;\n(i) cost of administering the Act including the salaries and allowances of the staff appointed for the purposes of the Act; and\n(j) such other objects as would, in the opinion of the State Government, improve the standard of living and ameliorate the social conditions of employees:",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 6
        },
        {
            "number": "8",
            "title": "8. Power of Board to borrow and invest the Fund.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "9",
            "title": "9. Direction by State Government to Board.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "10",
            "title": "10. Appointment of Welfare Commissioner and his staff.",
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            "content": "",
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        },
        {
            "number": "11",
            "title": "11. Appointment of Inspectors.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) with such assistance, if any, as he thinks fit enter at any reasonable time any premises for carrying out the purposes of this Act;\n(b) exercise such other powers as may be prescribed.",
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            "sort_order": 10
        },
        {
            "number": "12",
            "title": "12. Mode of recovery of sums payable into Fund, etc.",
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            "content": "",
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            "sort_order": 11
        },
        {
            "number": "13",
            "title": "13. Power to dissolve the Board.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 12
        },
        {
            "number": "14",
            "title": "14. Rules.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the agency for the manner of collection of sums specified in sub-section (3) of Section 3; and the period within which the same shall be paid to the credit of the Fund;\n(b) the manner in which the accounts of the Fund shall be maintained and audited under sub section (3) of Section 3;\n(c) the procedure for defraying the expenditure incurred in administering the Fund;\n(d) the manner in which the Board shall conduct their business;\n(e) the duties and powers of the Inspectors and the terms and conditions of service of the Welfare Commissioner;\n(f) the registers and records to be maintained under the Act;\n(g) the publication of the report of the activities financed from the Fund together with a statement of accounts;\n(h) any other matter which under this Act is or may be prescribed.",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 13
        },
        {
            "number": "15",
            "title": "15. Members of Board, Welfare Commissioner, Inspectors and all officers and servants of Board to be public servants.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 14
        },
        {
            "number": "16",
            "title": "16. Protection to persons acting in good faith.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 15
        }
    ],
    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "Last Updated 6th June, 2020 [ass391]",
        "Act Number": "(Assam Act No. 16 of 1960)",
        "Enactment Date": "",
        "Act Year": "1959",
        "Short Title": "Assam Tea Plantations Employees Welfare Fund Act, 1959",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Assam"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:19"
}