State Act

THE ASSAM INDUSTRIES ESTABLISHMENTS (CONFERMENT OF PERMANENT STATUS TO WORKMEN) ACT, 1985

This Act was repealed on a date we do not have by The Assam Repealing (No.I) Act, 2017 (Assam Act No. XIX of 2017) (named as the Act repealing it in the Assam Legislative Department's list of repealed Acts, alphabetical_repealed_act_final.pdf; the list gives no date); it may still apply to matters that began before then.

1. (1) This Act may be called the Assam Industrial Establishments (Conferment of permanent status to workmen) Act, 1985. (2) It extends to the whole of the State of Assam. (3) It applies to every industrial establishment (not being an establishment of a seasonal character or in which work is performed only intermittenty) in which not less than 50 (Fifty) workmen were employed on any day of the preceding twelve months. If any question arises whether an industrial establishment is of a seasonal character or whether work is performed therein only intermittently, the decision of the Government thereon shall be final ; Provided that the Government may, by notification in the official Gazette apply the provisions of this Act to any industrial establishment employing such number of workmen less than fifty as may be specified in the notification. (4) It shall come into force at once. Provided that nothing contained in this Act shall apply to any industrial establishment until the expiry of a period of two years from the date of its establishment.