Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) Where any workman, whose name is borne on the muster roll or, as the of case may be, Badli Register, ofa factory on, the first thy ofthe temporary period unemploy- not provided, with employment therein on any days during the temporary allowance period, due to short working of factories on account of shortage of power or on account ofdiscontinuance or reduction ofthe supply ofpower to the factory for contravention of any provisions of the *Bombay Electricity (Special Powers) Bom. Act, 1946, or ofany orders ofdirections issued thereunderj then notwithstand- X of ing anything contained in any law for the time being in force, he shall, subject to 1946. the provisions ofthis Act be paid by the employer an unemployment allowance at such rate per day and for such number of days in each calendar month during the temporary period as is provided in sub-section (2) of this section. (2) The rate ofunemployment allowance payable shall be equal to 50 per cent. of the total of the basic wages and dearness allowance that would have been payable to him had he been provided with employment during the temporary period: 2 Provided that where the unemployment is on account of discontinuance or reduction of the supply of power for the reasons stated in sub-section (1), the rate of allowance payable shall be hundred per cent. of the total of the basic wages and dearness allowance.J The number of days in each calendar month for which the unemployment allowance shall be paid at the rate aforesaid shall be equal to the average of the total number of days in each month on which a workman has actually worked during a period of one year immediately before the commencement of the temporary period: