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Power to make rules Schedules I to V THE ANDHRA PRADESH INDUSTRIAL WORKERS (REPRESENTATION, PARTICIPATION IN MANAGEMENT AND RELIEF) ACT, 1998 ACT No.24 OF 1998 [20th June, 1998] AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR RECOGNISATION TO TRADE UNIONS WITH A VIEW TO FACILITATING COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AND PROVIDE FOR PARTICIPATION OF WORKERS IN MANAGEMENT OF INDUSTRIAL ESTABLISHMENTS, PROTECTION OF WORKS, CONSTITUTION OF CONTINGENCY FUND TO PROVIDE RELIEF TO THE WORKMEN AFFECTED BY CLOSURE OF INDUSTRIAL ESTABLISHMENTS DUE TO SICKNESS OR OTHERWISE AND FOR MATTERS CONNECTED THEREWITH AND INCIDENTAL THERETO. Whereas it is considered expedient to provide statutory recognition to the unions in Industrial establishment so as to facilitate collective bargaining and to promote better relations between employees and employer; And whereas, it is felt necessary to give effect to the concept of workers participation in the management of industrial establishments enshrined in article 43-A of the Constitution of India as one of the Directive Principles of State Policy; And whereas it is considered that promotion of participation of workers in the management would contribute to harmonious industrial relations and serve to protect workers interests in industry; And whereas, it is considered essential constitute and industrial workers Contingency Fund to provide relief to workers affected by unauthorised closures, temporary or permanent, of industrial establishment due to sickness or other-wise and to provide for their sustenance; Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Andhra Pradesh in the Forty ninth Year of the Republic of India, as follows:- CHAPTER - I PRELIMINARY