Central Act

THE PLANTATIONS LABOUR ACT, 1951

This Act was repealed on 21 November 2025 by the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020 (37 of 2020), s.143(1); it may still apply to matters that began before then.

18B. Power of State Government to make rules.—(1) The State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, make rules to carry out the purposes of this Chapter. (2) In particular, and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such rules may provide for all or any of the following matters, namely:-- (a) the restriction on employment of women and adolescents for handling hazardous chemicals under sub-section (2) of section 18A; (b) the qualifications of supervisor appointed under sub-section (3) of section 18A; (c) the matters for training of workers under sub-section (4) of section 18A; (d) the medical examination of workers under sub-section (5) of section 18A; (e) the facilities and equipment to be provided to the workers engaged in handling insecticides, chemicals and toxic substances under sub-section (7) of section 18A; (f) the precautionary notices to be exhibited under sub-section (9) of section 18A.]