Industrial Disputes Act, 1947
(1) In the case of any industrial establishment in which one hundred or more workmen are employed or have been employed on any day in the preceding twelve months, the appropriate Government may by general or special order require the employer to constitute in the prescribed manner a Works Committee consisting of representatives of employers and workmen engaged in the establishment so however that the number of representatives of workmen on the Committee shall not be less than the number of representatives of the employer. The representatives of the workmen shall be chosen in the prescribed manner from among the workmen engaged in the establishment and in consultation with their trade union, if any, registered under the Indian Trade Unions Act, 1926 (16 of 1926). (2) It shall be the duty of the Works Committee to promote measures for securing and preserving amity and good relations between the employer and workmen and, to that end, to comment upon matters of their common interest or concern and endeavour to compose any material difference of opinion in respect of such matters. STATE AMENDMENT Manipur In section 3 of the Disturbed Areas (Special Courts) Act, 1976, (hereinafter referred to as the Principal Act):-- (a) in sub-section (1), between the words, “communities”, and “it may”, the following words, brackets and figures shall be inserted, namely— “or by reason of extension and indiscriminate armed violence by members of an association declared as unlawful association under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967”; (b) in sub-section (2)— (i) In clause (a) of the proviso, the word “and” appearing at the end shall be deleted, and the words, letters and brackets, “save in respect of the cases referred to in clause (aa)”, shall be inserted in the beginning, and (ii) below clause (a) of the proviso so amended, the following clause shall be added, namely:-- “(aa) in respect of extensive and indiscriminate armed violence by members of any association declared as unlawful association under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967, no period commencing from a date earlier than the date of publication of the notification, if any, under section 3 of the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958 (28 of 1958) in respect of that area or earlier than two years before the date of publication of the notification under sub-section (1), shall be specified therein; and “. [Vide Manipur Act 11 of 1982, s. 2] Rajasthan Insertion of new section 3A, in Central Act XIV of 1947.-After section 3 of the principal Act, the following new section shall be inserted, namely- "3A. Registrar and Assistant Registrar.- (1) The State Government shall, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint a person to be the Registrar of Unions for the purpose of this Act for the whole of the State. (2) The State Government may, by similar notification, appoint a person to be the Assistant Registrar of Unions for any local area and may, by general or special order, confer on such person all or any of the powers of the Registrar of Unions under this Act." [Vide Rajasthan Act 34 of 1958, s. 4] Insertion of new Chapter II-B in Central Act XIV of 1947.- After section 9B of the principal Act, the following new Chapter shall be inserted, namely:- "