Section 35 — Power to make rules.

35. Power to make rules.—(1) The appropriate Government may, subject to the condition of 

previous publication, make rules for carrying out the purposes of this Act. 

(2) In particular, and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such rules may 

provide for all or any of the following matters, namely:— 

(a) the number of persons to be appointed as members representing various interests on the 

Central Board and the State Board, the term of their office and other conditions of service, the 

procedure to be followed in the discharge of their functions and the manner of filling vacancies; 

(b) the times and places of the meetings of any committee constituted under this Act, the 

procedure to be followed at such meetings including the quorum necessary for the transaction of 

business, and the fees and allowances that may be paid to the members of a committee; 

(c) the manner in which establishments may be registered under section 7, the levy of a fee 

therefor and the form of certificate of registration; 

(d) the form of application for the grant or renewal of a licence under section 13 and the 

particulars it may contain; 

(e) the manner in which an investigation is to be made in respect of an application for the grant of 

a licence and the matters to be taken into account in granting or refusing a licence; 

(f) the form of a licence which may be granted or renewed under section 12 and the conditions 

subject to which the licence may be granted or renewed, the fees to be levied for the grant or renewal 

of a licence and the deposit of any sum as security for the performance of such conditions; 

(g) the circumstances under which licences may be varied or amended under section 14; 

(h) the form and manner in which appeals may be filed under section 15 and the procedure to be 

followed by appellate officers in disposing of the appeals; 

(i) the time within which facilities required by this Act to be provided and maintained may be so 

provided by the contractor and in case of default on the part of the contractor, by the principal 

employer; 

(j) the number and types of canteens, rest-rooms, latrines and urinals that should be provided and 

maintained; 

(k) the type of equipment that should be provided in the first-aid boxes; 

(l) the period within which wages payable to contract labour should be paid by the contractor 

under sub-section (1) of section 21; 

(m) the form of registers and records to be maintained by principal employers and contractors; 

(n) the submission of returns, forms in which, and the authorities to which, such returns may be 

submitted; 



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(o) the collection of any information or statistics in relation to contract labour; and 

(p) any other matter which has to be, or may be, prescribed under this Act. 

(3) Every rule made by the Central Government under this Act shall be laid as soon as may be after it 

is made, before each House of Parliament while it is in session for a total period of thirty days which may 

be comprised in one session or in two successive sessions, and if before the expiry of the session in which 

it is so laid or the session immediately following, both Houses agree in making any modification in the 

rule or both Houses agree that the rule should not be made, the rule shall thereafter have effect only in 

such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be; so, however, that any such modification or 

annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that rule. 

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[(4) Every rule made by the State Government under this Act shall be laid, as soon as may be after it 

is made, before the State Legislature.] 

                                                           

1. Ins. by Act 4 of 2005, s. 2 and the Schedule (w.e.f. 11-1-2005).