INTER-STATE MIGRANT WORKMEN ACT

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Chapter I - Preliminary
Section 1 : Short title, extent, commencement and application

Section 2 : Definitions

Chapter II - Registration of Establishments employing Inter State Migrant Workers
Section 3 : Appointment of registering officers

Section 4 : Registration of certain establishments

Section 5 : Revocation of registration in certain cases

Section 6 : Prohibition against employment of inter-State migrant workmen without registration

Chapter III - Licensing of Contractors
Section 7 : Appointment of licenceship officers

Section 8 : Licensing of contractors

Section 9 : Grant of licences

Section 10 : Revocation, suspension and amendment of licences

Section 11 : Appeal

Chapter IV - Duties and Obligations of Contractors
Section 12 : Duties of contractors

Chapter V - Wages, Welfare and other facilities
Section 13 : Wage rates and other conditions of service of inter-State migrant workmen

Section 14 : Displacement allowance

Section 15 : Journey allowance etc

Section 16 : Other facilities

Section 17 : Responsibility for payment of wages

Section 18 : Liability of principal employer in certain cases

Section 19 : Past liabilities

Chapter VI - Inspection Staff
Section 20 : Inspectors

Chapter VII - Miscellaneous
Section 21 : Inter-State migrant workmen to be deemed to be in employment fromdate of recruitment

Section 22 : Provisions regarding industrial disputes in relation to inter-State migrant workmen

Section 23 : Registers and other records to be maintained

Section 24 : Obstructions

Section 25 : Contravention of provisions regarding employment of inter-State migrant workmen

Section 26 : Other offences

Section 27 : Offences by companies

Section 28 : Cognizance of offences

Section 29 : Limitation of prosecutions

Section 30 : Effect of laws and agreements inconsistent with the Act

Section 31 : Power to exempt in special cases

Section 32 : Protection of action taken under Act

Section 33 : Power to give directions

Section 34 : Power to remove difficulties

Section 35 : Power to make rules

Section 36 : Repeals and saving