State Act

Tamil Nadu Manual Workers (Regulation Of Employment And Conditions Of Work) Act,1982

1[8-B. Contribution to Fund for benefit of manual workers other than those employed in construction or maintenance of dams, bridges, roads or in any building operations. ----- (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in any law for the time being in force or any agreement, but save as otherwise provided in section 8-A, ----- (a) every employer other than an employer operating a motor transport for carrying passengers or goods by roads, employing manual worker in any in any scheduled employment, shall be liable to pay, 2[to the respective Board established under section 6, for any scheduled employment, other than the scheduled employment in construction or maintenance of dams, bridges, roads or in any building operations, a sum at such rate, in such manner and within such time, as specified in the scheme] ; (b) every employer operating any motor transport for carrying passengers or goods by roads, shall be liable to pay, in addition to the tax payable by him under the Tamil Nadu Motor Vehicles Taxation Act, 1974 (Tamil Nadu Act 13 of 1974). (hereafter in this section referred to as the said Act), a sum at such rate not exceeding one per cent. of the tax payable by him under the said Act, as may be fixed by the Government by notification ; (c) every manual worker in any scheduled employment other than the scheduled employment in construction or maintenance of dams, bridges, roads or in any building operations, 1[shall pay a sum, at such rate, in such manner and within such time, as specified in the scheme in respect of such scheduled employment] ; (d) the Government may, from time to time, make grants to the Board on such terms and conditions as the Government may, in each case, determine, as contribution to the Fund constituted for the benefit of manual workers in the scheduled employments under a scheme framed under this Act, other than those employed in constru-ction or maintenance of dams, bridges, roads or in any building operation. (2) Notwithstanding anything contained in any law for the time being in force, every Officer appointed under the said Act shall, while collecting the tax under the said Act, also collect the sum specified under sub-section (1) and remit such sum 2[within such time as may be prescribed] to the Board referred to in sub-section (1), in such manner as may be specified in the scheme. (3) Any sum paid under sun-section (1) or remitted under sub-section (2) shall be credited to the Fund constituted for the benefit of the manual workers, under a scheme framed under this Act, other than those employed in construction or maintenance of dams, bridges, roads or in any building operations].