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GOVERNMEN T OF A~ SAM

ORDE~ S BY T Ht: GOVERNOR

LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT : LEGISLATIVE BRANCH

NOTIFICATION

The 16th January 1985                 -

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No.LGL.130/83/34.-The followin~ Act of the Assam Legislati-ve

A~s~bly rec;eived the assent of the President ~s .ll.eteby published

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36 THE ASSAM GAZETTE, EXTRAORDINARY, --------JA'. 17, 1985

. ASSAM ACT No. I OF 1985

(Received the assent of the President on 29th December, 1984)

THE• ASSAM WORKMEN'S PROTECTION ACT, 1984

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Act

to prevent the recovery of debts from certain classes

of workmen by besetting the places where they work or
receive their wages and protect such workmen from mole-
station and intimidation by their creditors in ;the State of
Assam.

Preamble. Whereas it is expedient to prevent the recovery of

debts from certain classes of workmen by besetting the
places where they work or receive their wages and protect
such workmen from molestation and intimidation by their
creditors;

It is hereby enacted in the Thirty-fifth Year of the

Republic of India. as follows:-

Sh 1 t title, 1. (i) This Act, may be called 'The Assam Workmens'
extent nd Protection Act. 1984'.
commence-
ment. .

(ii) It extends to the whole of the StaJte of Assam.

(iii) It shall come· into force at once.

efbirio n. 2. In this Act. unless there is anything repugnant in

the subject or context :-

(1) 'Workman' means any person employed by local

authority on a system of public conservancy or

sanitation or                - employed.' in any industrial establish-
ment to do any skilled, unskilled, manual or cleri-
cal labour for hire or reward;

(2) 'Industrial Establishment' means-

(i) A factory as defined in clause (m) of Section 2

of the Factories Act. 1948 (63 of 1948); ,.

(ii) A Railway as defined in clause (iv) of Secti~n 3

of the Indian Railways Act, 1890;                    -

(iii) The establishment of a person who, for the

, purpose of fulfilling a contract with the owner

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fHE ASSAM QAZETTE, EXTRAORDINARY, JAN 17, 1985 37

(iv) Transport Vehicles Services;

(v) Dock, Wharf or Jetty;

(vi) Inland Steam Vessel Services;

(vii) Mine, Quarry .

(viii) Plantations as defined in clause (f) of Section
2 of the Plantations Labour Act, 1951 (69 of
1951), and

(ix) Workshop or other establishment in which
articles are~ produced, adopted or manufactured
with a view to their use, transport or sale.

(3) A person who, with intent to cause a workmen to
abstain from doing or to do any act which he has
a right to do-

(a) obstructs. threaten or uses violence to, or inti-

m idates such workman ; or

(b) persistently follows such workmen from place

###### to place or interferes with any property owned

or used by him or deprives him of, or hinders
him in the use thereof ; or

(c) loiters or does any similar act at or near a house

or other places where such workman works or
carries on business ;

shall be deemed to molest such warkman.

3. BESETTING CERTAIN PLACES WITH A VIEW

' TO RECOVER DEBT :

Whoever-

(1) loiters at or near any place . where a workman.

works or receives his wage.:; in a manner or in
circumstances indicating that he is so loitering

with a view to recover any debt fr om such work-
man; or

(2) molests. or abets the molestation of any such
workman for the recovery of a debt owned by him
to his creditor shall be punishable with imprison-
ment which may extend to 6 (six) months and with
a fine upto five thousand rupees or with both.


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38l'HE ASSAM GAZETTE, EXTRAORDINARY, JA~. 17, 1985

4. OFFENCES UNDER THIS ACT TO BE COGNIZA-

BLE AND NON-BAILABLE:

Notwithstanding anything contained in lthe Code of
Criminal Procedure, 1973 (Act 2 of 1974) offences
punishable under this Act shall be cognizable and
non-bailable.

M '), S I\!\ DULLA 'i ,

:iecr ran o th ~ Gov oJ \ssa rrr,

                                        - egis)alive Deptt .

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