The Ministry of Labour and Employment vide its Notification dated 7th March, 2017 being G.S.R. 203(E) notified draft of certain rules further to amend the Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Central Rules, 1971 (the 'Principal Rules'), which the Central Government proposes to make in exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (2) of section 35 of the Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970, is hereby published, as required by sub-section (1) of Section 35 of the said Act, for information of all persons likely to be affected thereby. The Ministry by way of said Notification gave notice that the said draft rules will be taken into consideration after the expiry of a period of thirty days from the date on which the copies of the Official Gazette in which this notification is published, are made available to the public.

The Contract Labour (Regulation & Abolition) Central (Amendment) Rules, 2017

  1. For Rule 82 of the Principal Rules, the following rule shall be substituted, namely:-
    1. "82. Every contractor shall upload a Unified Annual Return in the Form XXIV specified in these rules, on the web portal of the Ministry of Labour and Employment on or before the 1st day of February following the close of the year to which it relates.
    2. Every principal employer of a registered establishment shall upload a Unified Annual Return on or before the 1st day of February following the end of the year to which it relates.
    3. The principal employer or contractor shall also file a Unified Annual Return to the concerned authorities manually on or before the 1st day of February following the close of the year to which it relates.
    4. In case, if, the employer maintain registers or records or reports in electronic form, such registers or records or reports shall also be taken into consideration by the inspector for the purpose of examination of any register or record required to be kept under the Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970 (37 of 1970) and the rules made thereunder and require the production thereof for inspection."
  1. Further in the Principal Rules, Form XIV and form XV shall be omitted.
  2. Also in the Principal Rules, after Form XXIII, a new form has been proposed to be inserted, namely Unified Annual Return Form-'XXIV'

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