Rules made by Central Government to be laid before Parliament.

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1[(1)] Every rule made by the Central Government under this Act shall be laid as
1 Del. by the Minimum Wages (Amendment) Act, 1957.
2 Del. by the Minimum Wages (Amendment) Act, 1957.
3 Added by the Minimum Wages (Amendment) Act, 1961.
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soon as may be after it is made before each House of Parliament while it is in
session for a total period of thirty days which may be comprised in one session or
in two successive sessions, and if, before the expiry of the session in which it is
so laid or the session immediately following, both Houses, agree in making any
modification in the rule, or both Houses agree that the rule shall not be made,
the rule shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect,
as the case may be so, however, that any such modification or annulment shall
be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that rule].
2[[2) Every rule made by the State Government under this Act shall be laid
as soon as may be after it is made, before the State Legislature.]
3[31. Validation of fixation of certain minimum rates of wages.- Where
during the period-
(a) commencing on the 1st of April 1952 and ending with the date of
the commencement of the Minimum Wages (Amendment) Act,
1954 (26 of 1954); or
(b) commencing on the 31st day of December, 1954 and ending with
the date of the commencement of the Minimum Wages
(Amendment) Act, 1957 (30 of 1957); or
(c) commencing on 31st day of December, 1959 and ending with the
date of the commencement of the Minimum Wages (Amendment)
Act, 1961 (31 of 1961);
minimum rates of wages have been fixed by an appropriate Government as being
payable to employees employed in any employment specified in the Schedule in
the belief or purported belief that such rates were being fixed under clause (a) of
sub- section (1) of section 3 as in force immediately before the commencement of
the Minimum Wages (Amendment) Act, 1954 (26 of 1954), or the Minimum
Wages (Amendment) Act, 1957 (30 of 1957), or the Minimum Wages (Amendment)
Act, 1961 (31 of 1961), as the case may be, such rates shall be deemed to have
been fixed in accordance with law and shall not be called in question in any
Court on the ground merely that the relevant date specified for the purpose in
that clause had expired at the time the rates were fixed:
Provided that nothing contained in this section shall extend, or be construed
to extend, to affect any person with any punishment or penalty whatsoever by
reason of the payment by him by way of wages to any of his employees during
any period specified in this section of an amount which is less than the minimum
rates of wages referred to in this section or by reason of non-compliance during
the period aforesaid with any order or rule issued under section 13.]
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THE SCHEDULE
[SEE SECTIONS 2(G) AND 27]
PART I
1. Employment in any woollen Carpet Making or Shawl Wearing
establishment
2. Employment in any rice mill, flour mill or dal mill.
1 Section 30A renumbered as sub-section (1) thereof by Act 4 of 2005, sec. 2 and
Sch. (w.e.f. 11-1-2005).
2 Inserted by Act 4 of 2005, sec. 2 and Sch. (w.e.f 11-01-2005).
3 Subs. by the Minimum Wages (Amendment) Act, 1961.
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3. Employment in any tobacco (including bidi making) manufactory.
4. Employment in any plantation, that is to say, any estate which is
maintained for the purpose of growing cinchona, rubber, tea or coffee.
5. Employment in any oil mill.
6. Employment under any local authority
1[7. Employment on the construction or maintenance of roads or in building
operations.]
8. Employment in stone breaking or stone crushing.
9. Employment in any lac manufactory.
10. Employment in any mica works.
11. Employment in public motor transport.
12. Employment in tanneries and leather manufactory.
2[Employment in gypsum mines.
Employment in barites mines.
Employment in bauxite mines.]
3[Employment in manganese mines.]
4[Employment in the maintenance of buildings and employment in the
construction and maintenance of runways.]
5[Employment in China clay mines.
Employment in Kyanite mines.]
6[Employment in copper mines.]
7[Employment in clay mines covered under the Mines Act, 1952 (35 of
1952).]
8[Employment in magnesite mines covered under the Mines Act, 1952
[35 of 1952).]
9[Employment in white clay mines.]
10[Employment in stone mines.]
11[Employment in Steatite mines (including the mines producing
soapstone and Talc) covered under the Mines Act, 1952 (35 of 1952).]
12[Employment in Ochre Mines.]
1 Subs. by Minimum Wages (Amendment) Act, 1957.
2 S.O. 3760 dated 4-12-62
3 S.O. 4030 dated 30-10-67.
4 S.O. 1987 dated 30-5-68.
5 S.O. 586 dated 5-2-70.
6 S.O. 795 dated 13-2-70.
7 S.O. 796 dated 18-2-70.
8 S.O. 2357 dated 1-7-70.
9 S.O. 3896 dated 3-9-71.
10 S.O. 3898 dated 15-9-71.
11 S.O. 2972 dated 1-7-72.
12 S.O. 2973 dated 1-7-72.
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1[Employment in Asbestos Mines.]
2[Employment in Fire clay Mines.]
3[Employment in Chromite Mines.]
4[Employment in quartizite mines
Employment in quartz mines
Employment in silica mines.]
5[Employment in Graphite mines.]
6[Employment in felspar mines.]
7[Employment in laterite mines.]
8[Employment in dolomite mines
Employment in redoxide mines.]
9[Employment in Wolfram mines.]
10[Employment in iron ore mines.]
11[Employment in Granite Mines.]
12[Employment in Rock Phosphate Mines.]
13[Employment in Hematite Mines.]
14[Employment in Loading and Unloading in—
(i) Goods Shed, Parcel Offices of Railways;
(ii) Other Goodsheds, Godowns, Warehouses etc.; and
(iii) Docks and Ports.
Other things would remain the same]
15[Employment in marble and calcite mines.]
16[Employment in Asphit cleaning in Railways.]
17[Employment in Uranium Mines.]
18[Employment in Ligmite Mines.]
1 S.O. 2974 dated 6-7-72.
2 S.O. 1587 dated 24-5-73.
3 S.O. 2311 dated 3-7-75.
4 S.O. 807 dated 4-2-76.
5 S.O. 558 dated 29-1-77.
6 S.O. 1823 dated 14-6-78.
7 S.O. 2945 dated 22-9-78.
8 S.O. 2950 dated 25-9-78.
9 S.O. 3671 dated 7-12-78.
10 S.O. 1757 dated 16-6-80.
11 S.O. 2473 dated 28-9-80.
12 S.O. 1824, dated 22-3-1983.
13 S.O. 1957, dated 11-4-1983.
14 Subs. by S.O. 90 (E), dated 25-1-2006.
15 S.O. 3455, dated 20-8-1983.
16 S.O. 2093, dated 23-4-1983.
17 S.O. 2693, dated 1-8-1986.
18 S.O. 493(E), dated 20-5-1998.
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1[Employment in gravel Mines.]
2[Employment in State Mines.]
3[Employment in laying of underground cables, electric lines, water
supply lines and sewerage of pipe lines.]
4[Employment of Sweeping and Cleaning excluding activities prohibited
under the Employment of Manual Scavengers and Construction of Dry
Latrines (Prohibition) Act, 1993.]
PART II
1. Employment in agriculture, that is to say, in any form of farming,
including the cultivation and tillage of the soil, dairy farming, the production,
cultivation, growing and harvesting of any agricultural or horticultural
commodity, the raising of live-stock, bees or poultry, and any practice performed
by a farmer or on a farm as incidental to or in conjunction with farm operations
(including any forestry or timbering operations and the preparation for market
and delivery to storage or to market or t