02978nam a2200073Ia 4500100001200000245001600012260001200028650286400040  aTAXMANS 0aLABOUR LAWS  bTAXMANS  a ♦ Apprentices Act, 1961 ♦ 	Child and Adolescent Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986 • 	Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970 ♦ Employees' Compensation Act, 1923 as amended by Employees' Compensation (Amendment) Act, 2017, w.e.f. 15-5-2017 • 	Employees' Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952 as amended by Finance Act, 2017, w.e.f. 26-5-2017 ♦ 	Employees' State Insurance Act, 1948 ♦ 	Employment Exchanges (Compulsory Notification of Vacancies) Act, 1959 ♦	Equal Remuneration Act, 1976 ♦	Factories Act, 1948 ♦ 	Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 as amended by Finance Act, 2017, w.e.f. 26-5-2017 ♦ 	Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Act, 1946 ♦ Industrial Tribunals ♦ 	Labour Laws (Simplification of Procedure for Furnishing Returns and Maintaining Registers by Certain Establishments) Act, 1988 ♦ 	Maternity Benefit Act, 1961 as amended by Maternity Benefit (Amendment) Act, 2017, w.e.f. 1-4-2017/1-7-2017 ♦	Minimum Wages Act, 1948 ♦	Payment of Bonus Act, 1965 ♦	Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972 ♦ 	Payment of Wages Act, 1936 as amended by the Payment of Wages (Amendment) Act, 2017,       .    Short title, extent, commencement and application    APPRENTICES AND THEIR TRAINING . 	Qualifications for being engaged as an apprentice . 	Reservation of training places for the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes in designated trades . 	Reservation of training places for other Backward Classes in designated trades .	Contract of apprenticeship .	Novation of contract of apprenticeship .	Regulation of optional trade .	Engagement of apprentices from other States .	Period of apprenticeship training .	Termination of apprenticeship contract . 	Number of apprentices for a designated trade and optional trade .	Practical and basic training of apprentices .	Related instruction of apprentices .	Obligations of employers .	Obligations of apprentices .	Payment to apprentices  .	Health, safety and welfare of apprentice .	Hours of work, overtime, leave and holidays . 	Employer's liability for compensation for injury .	Conduct and discipline .	Apprentices are trainees and not workers .	Records and returns .	Settlement of disputes . 	Holding of test and grant of certificate and conclusion of training .	Offer and acceptance of employment .	Authorities .	Constitution of Councils .	Vacancies not to invalidate acts and proceedings .	Apprenticeship Advisers .	Deputy and Assistant Apprenticeship Advisers .	Apprenticeship Advisers to be public servants .	Powers of entry, inspection, etc. .	Offences and penalties  	.	Penalty where no specific penalty is provided .	Offences by companies .	Cognizance of offences .	Delegation of powers .	Construction of references .	Protection of action taken in good faith .	Power to make rules . 	[Repealed by the Repealing and Amending Act, 1964]