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 form and mariner in which an application for the registration of an establishment may be 

made under section 4, the fees payable thereon and the form of a certificate of registration issued 

under that section; 

(b) the form in which an application for the grant or renewal of a licence may be made under 

section 9 and the particulars it may contain; 

(c) 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; 

(d) the form of a licence which may be granted or renewed under this Act, the conditions subject 

to which the licence may be granted or renewed, the fees payable for the grant or renewal of a licence 



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and the security, if any, required to be furnished for the due performance of the conditions of the 

licence; 

(e) the circumstances under which licences may be varied or amended under section 10; 

(f) the form and the manner in which appeals may be filed under section 11 and the procedure to 

be followed by appellate officers in disposing of the appeals; 

(g) the wage rates, holidays, hours of work and other conditions of service which an inter-State 

migrant workman is entitled under section 13; 

(h) the period within which wages payable to inter-State migrant workmen should be paid by the 

contractor under sub-section (1) of section 17 and the manner of certification of such payment under 

sub-section (2) thereof; 

(i) the time within which allowances or 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 under section 18; 

(j) the powers that may be exercised by inspectors under section 20; 

(k) the form of registers and records to be maintained, and the particulars and information to be 

contained in notices to be exhibited, by the principal employers and contractors under section 23; 

(l) the manner of submission of returns, and the forms in which, and the authorities to which, such 

returns may be submitted; 

(m) legal aid to inter-State migrant workmen; 

(n) any other matter which is required 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 or more successive sessions and if, before the expiry of the session 

immediately following the session or the successive sessions aforesaid, 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.