Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
See Government of India, Ministry of Home Affairs, S.O. No. 1301, dated the 28th March, 1969, published in Gazette of India(Extra.), Part –II. Section 3 (ii), of 31st March, 1969. 3 For Statement of Objects and Reasons, see Haryana Government Gazette (Extraordinary), 1971 page 198. 4 Substituted for clause (2) by Haryana Act No. 7 of 2007 dated 4th April, 2007. 2 4(“”(4) ‘establishment’ means a factory and includes any premises including the precincts thereof wherein and in any part of which any industry within the meaning of clause (j) of section 2 of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (Act 14 of 1947), is carried on and also includes a shop or a commercial establishment within the meaning of the Punjab Shops and Commercial Establishments Act, 1958 (Punjab Act 15 of 1958), in which, on any day. Ten or more employees are employed or were employed during the preceding twelve months;’ (5) ‘factory’ means a factory as defined in clause (m) of section 2 of the Factories Act, 1948, or any place which is deemed to be a factory under sub- section (2) of section 85 of that Act ; ¹[(6) “Fund” means the Labour Welfare Fund constituted under section 3 for eachof the States of Punjab and Haryana and the Union Territory of Chandigarh ;] (7) ‘independent member’ means a member of the Board who is not connected with the management of any establishment or who is not an employee ; (8) ‘Inspector’ means an Inspector appointed under section 15 ; (9) ‘prescribed’ means prescribed by rules made under this Act ; (10) ‘unpaid accumulations’ means all payments due to the employees but not made to them within a period of 3[two years] from the date on which they become due, whether before or after the commencement of this Act, including the wages, bonus and gratuity legally payable, but not including the amount of contribution, if any, paid by an employer to a provident fund established under the Employees Provident Fund Act, 1952 ; (11) wages’ means wages as defined in clause (6) of section 2 of the Payment of Wages Act, 1936 ; (12) ‘Welfare Commissioner’ means the Welfare Commissioner appointed under section 14. [2A. Construction of certain references in the Act. -- (1) In the application of the provisions of this Act to the Union territory of Chandigarh , any reference therein to the State or State Government shall be construed as a reference to the Administrator of the Union territory of Chandigarh. (2) Sub-section (3) of section 27 shall not apply in relation to the Union territory of Chandigarh but shall apply to the State of Haryana with the modifications that for the words “each house of the State Legislature”, the words “ the Legislative Assembly” and for the words “both Houses agree” at both the places where they occur, the words “the Legislative Assembly agrees” shall be substituted.”