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INTER-STATE MIGRANT WORKMEN ACT, 1979

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Chapter I - Preliminary

1. Short title, extent, commencement and application
2. Definitions

Chapter II - Registration of Establishments employing Inter State Migrant Workers

3. Appointment of registering officers
4. Registration of certain establishments
5. Revocation of registration in certain cases
6. Prohibition against employment of inter-State migrant workmen without registration

Chapter III - Licensing of Contractors

7. Appointment of licenceship officers
8. Licensing of contractors
9. Grant of licences
10. Revocation, suspension and amendment of licences
11. Appeal

Chapter IV - Duties and Obligations of Contractors

12. Duties of contractors

Chapter V - Wages, Welfare and other facilities

13. Wage rates and other conditions of service of inter-State migrant workmen
14. Displacement allowance
15. Journey allowance etc
16. Other facilities
17. Responsibility for payment of wages
18. Liability of principal employer in certain cases
19. Past liabilities

Chapter VI - Inspection Staff

20. Inspectors

Chapter VII - Miscellaneous

21. Inter-State migrant workmen to be deemed to be in employment fromdate of recruitment
22. Provisions regarding industrial disputes in relation to inter-State migrant workmen
23. Registers and other records to be maintained
24. Obstructions
25. Contravention of provisions regarding employment of inter-State migrant workmen
26. Other offences
27. Offences by companies
28. Cognizance of offences
29. Limitation of prosecutions
30. Effect of laws and agreements inconsistent with the Act
31. Power to exempt in special cases
32. Protection of action taken under Act
33. Power to give directions
34. Power to remove difficulties
35. Power to make rules
36. Repeals and saving