Section 63
Duty to submit returns
The Director General may, by notification in the Gazette or by notice in writing require every employer or such class or classes of employers as may be specified, and every owner or occupier of land upon which employees are employed or such class or classes of owners or occupiers as may be specified, to forward to the Director General at such times as he may direct a return or returns, in such form or forms as he may prescribe, giving such particulars relating to the employees of the employers, or to the employees employed on the land, as may be prescribed.
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(2)
Notwithstanding the provisions of this Act, the powers of the Director General under subsection (1) extends to every employee employed under a contract of service irrespective of the monthly wages of the employee.
Duty to give notice and other information 63a. (1) Any person or employer who proposes—
(a)
to operate any agricultural or industrial undertaking or any establishment where any commerce, trade, profession or business of any description is carried on; or
(b)
to take over or commence business in such undertaking or establishment; or
(c)
to change the name or the location of such undertaking or establishment, in which any employee is employed or is likely to be employed shall, within ninety days of such commencing of operation, taking over or commencing of business, or changing the name or the location of the undertaking or establishment, as the case may be, give notice in writing thereof to the nearest office of the
Director of Labour having jurisdiction for the area in which that undertaking or establishment is located and furnish such office of the Director of Labour with—
(i)
the registered name, address and nature of business of;
(ii)
the name of the manager or person in charge of; and
(iii)
a statement of the categories and total number of employees employed in, that undertaking or establishment.
(1a)
For the purposes of this section the expressions “commencing of operation” and “commencing of business” each means the date on which the undertaking or establishment is registered under any written law, or the date on which the first employee is employed in furtherance of the operation, commerce, trade or business of such undertaking or establishment, whichever is earlier.
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(2)
Where any undertaking or establishment as is referred to in subsection (1) is already in operation or has commenced business, such notice shall be given within ninety days of the coming into force of this section.
(3)
Any person or employer who fails to give notice as required by this section or gives such notice containing any false particulars commits an offence.
Duty to display notice boards