Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Powers and duties of the Board. ------ (1) The Board shall be responsible for administering a scheme, and shall exercise such powers and perform such functions as may be conferred it by the scheme. (2) The Board may take such measures as it may deem fit for administering the scheme. (3) Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law, the Board may nominate persons or officers who would be competent to act on behalf of any manual worker to initiate action for making any claim under any law or rules made thereunder or award or settlement made under any such law and appear on behalf of the manual worker in such proceedings. (4) Notwithstanding anything contained in section 36 of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (Central Act XIV of 1947), the Board may nominate persons or officers who would be competent to act in an industrial dispute raised individually under section 2-A or collectively under section 2 (k) of the said Act to represent the workers in any conciliation proceedings or proceedings before Labour Courts, Indus- trial Tribunal or National Tribunal or before an Arbitrator under section 10-A of the said Act, if the Board has been authorised by the manual workers. (5) The Board shall submit to the Government as soon as may be, after the first day of April every year, the annual report on the working of the scheme during the proceeding year ending on thirty-first March of that year, Every report so received shall be laid as soon as may be after it is received before each House of the State Legislature if it is in session, or in the session immediately following the date of receipt of the report. (6) In exercise of the powers and discharge of its functions the Board shall be bound by such directions as the Government may, for reasons to be stated in wiring, give to it from time to time. 1[8-A. Contribution to Fund for benefit of manual workers in the employment in construction or maintenance of dams, bridges, etc. --- (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in any law for the time being in force or in any agreement, ------ (a) every person who makes an application for building permit for any building work to a local authority shall be liable to pay to the local authority concerned, in addition to the fee for the building permit ; and (b) every person who undertakes or is in charge of, any construction [work other than the building work referred to in clause (a)] shall be liable to pay, a sum at such per cent. not exceeding one per cent, of the total estimated cost of the building or construction work proposed to be constructed, as may be fixed by the Government by notification, as contribution to the fund constituted for the benefit of manual workers in the employment in construction or maintenance of dams, bridges, roads or in any building operations, under a scheme framed under section 3. (2) Notwithstanding anything contained in any law for the time being in force, every local authority shall, while sanctioning the building permit, collect the sum specified in clause (a) of sub-section (1), in such manner as may be prescribed. (3) (a) Notwithstanding anything contained in any law for the time being in force, every application made to any local authority for building permit, shall also be accompanied by a detailed estimated cost of the building proposed to be constructed for which a building permit is applied for. (b) The detailed estimate referred to in clause (a) shall be certified by such authority as may be prescribed as to the correctness of such estimate. (4) Every local authority referred to in clause (a) and every person referred to in clause (b), of sub-section (1) shall, within such period as may be prescribed, remit the sum collected or liable to pay, as the case may be, under the said sub-section (1), to the Board esta- blished under section 6 in respect of the manual workers in the employ- ment in construction or maintenance of dams, bridges, roads or in any building operations, in such manner as may be prescribed, for being credited to the fund constituted for the benefit of the said workers under a scheme framed under section 3. (5) (a) The provisions of this section shall apply to ------ (i) the City of Madras ; (ii) the City of Madurai ; and (iii) the City of Coimbatore, on the date of the commencement of the Tamil Nadu Manual Workers (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Work) Amendment Act,