The Bombay Trade Disputes Conciliation Act, 1934

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    "title": "The Bombay Trade Disputes Conciliation Act, 1934",
    "short_title": "The Bombay Trade Disputes Conciliation Act, 1934",
    "act_number": "Bombay Act No. 9 of 1934",
    "act_year": 1934,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Gujarat",
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    "enactment_date": null,
    "description": "The Bombay Trade Disputes Conciliation Act, 1934",
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            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Short title.",
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        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "2. Extent, commencement and application.",
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        {
            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Definitions.",
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            "content": "(a) \"Commissioner of Labour\" means the officer appointed for the time being to be the Commissioner of Labour;\n(b) \"Conciliator\" includes the Chief Conciliator or a Special or Assistant Conciliator appointed under this Act;\n(c) \"Conciliation proceeding\" means a proceeding held by a Conciliator under this Act;\n(d) \"Delegate\" means a person appointed under section 9 to represent a party to a trade dispute in a conciliation proceeding and includes the Labour Officer acting as a delegate to represent workmen in such proceeding;\n(e) \"employer\" includes any body of persons, whether incorporated or not and any managing agent of an employer;\n(f) \"Labour Officer\" means an officer appointed to perform the duties of a Labour Officer under this Act;\n(g) \"prescribed\" means prescribed by rules made under this Act,\n(h) \"trade disputed\" means any dispute or difference between employers and workmen, which is connected with the employment or non-employment or the terms of the employment or with the conditions of labour, of any person;\n(i) words and expressions not defined in this Act, but defined in the [Trade Disputes Act, 1929 (VII of 1929)] , shall have the meaning assigned to them in that Act.",
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        {
            "number": "4",
            "title": "4. Appointment of Conciliators.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "5",
            "title": "5. Labour Officers.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Jurisdiction of Conciliators.",
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        {
            "number": "7",
            "title": "7. Application or report for settlement of trade disputes.",
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            "content": "(a) either or both parties to the dispute may apply, whether separately or conjointly, or\n(b) the Labour Officer may make a report, to the Conciliator for a settlement of the dispute.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "8",
            "title": "8. Conciliator to give notice to parties.",
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            "content": "(a) in any area for which a Labour Officer is appointed, on receipt of an application or report under section 7, or\n(b) elsewhere, on receipt of an application under section 7 or upon his own knowledge or information,",
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        },
        {
            "number": "9",
            "title": "9. Delegates.",
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        {
            "number": "10",
            "title": "10. Disqualification from being a delegate.",
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            "content": "(a) is less than twenty-one years of age; or\n(b) is an uncertificated bankrupt or an undischarged insolvent.",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 9
        },
        {
            "number": "11",
            "title": "11. Conciliation proceeding.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "12",
            "title": "12. Procedure and powers of Conciliator in conciliation proceeding.",
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            "content": "(a) summoning and enforcing the attendance of any person and examining him on oath;\n(b) compelling the production of documents and material objects; and\n(c) issuing commissions for the examination of witnesses; and shall have such further powers as may be prescribed.",
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            "sort_order": 11
        },
        {
            "number": "13",
            "title": "13. Settlement and Report.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "14",
            "title": "14. Penalty for disclosing confidential information.",
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            "sort_order": 13
        },
        {
            "number": "15",
            "title": "15. Exemption of documents from stamp duty, court-fee and registration fees.",
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            "sort_order": 14
        },
        {
            "number": "16",
            "title": "16. Penalty.",
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            "content": "(a) with intent to cause any person to abstain from doing or to do any act which such person has a right to do or to abstain from doing, obstructs or uses violence to or intimidates such person or any member of his family or person in his employ or loiters at or near a place where such person or member or employed person resides or persistently follows him from place to place, or interferes with any property owned or used by him, or deprives him of or hinders him in the use thereof, or\n(b) loiters or does any similar act at or near the place where a conciliation proceeding is held, in such a way and with intent that any person may thereby be deterred from entering or approaching such place.",
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            "sort_order": 15
        },
        {
            "number": "17",
            "title": "17. Power of entry.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "18",
            "title": "18. Conciliator and Labour Officer to be public servants.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 17
        },
        {
            "number": "19",
            "title": "19. Protection to persons acting in good faith.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 18
        },
        {
            "number": "20",
            "title": "20. Rules.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) prescribing the powers and duties of the Labour Officer;\n(b) prescribing the powers and duties which may be delegated to Assistant Conciliators;\n(c) prescribing the form and manner in which notice shall be given under section 8;\n(d) prescribing the manner in which the officer of a company shall be authorised to represent the company under section 9;\n(e) regulating the procedure in which a conciliation proceeding shall\" be held under section 11;\n(f) determining the scale of fees at which witnesses shall be paid for appearance in a conciliation proceeding under section 11;\n(g) specifying the powers which may be exercised by the Conciliator for the purpose of a conciliation proceeding under section 11;\n(h) prescribing the form in which and the particulars which shall be mentioned in the memorandum of a settlement under section 13;\n(i) prescribing the manner in which the record of a conciliation proceeding and settlement shall be maintained under section 13; and\n(j) providing for any other matter for which there is no provision or insufficient provision in this Act and for which provision is, in the opinion of the [ [State] Government] , necessary for giving effect to the provisions of this Act,",
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        },
        {
            "number": "21",
            "title": "21. Saving of the provisions of the Trade Disputes Act, 1929.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 20
        }
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        "Act ID": "guj211",
        "Act Number": "Bombay Act No. 9 of 1934",
        "Enactment Date": "",
        "Act Year": "1934",
        "Short Title": "The Bombay Trade Disputes Conciliation Act, 1934",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Gujarat"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:19"
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