Section 6 — Advisory Committee.

6. Advisory Committee.—(1) For the purpose of providing increasing employment opportunities for 

women, the appropriate Government shall constitute one or more Advisory Committees to advise it with 

regard to the extent to which women may be employed in such establishments or employments as the 

Central Government may, by notification, specify in this behalf. 

(2) Every Advisory Committee shall consist of not less than ten persons, to be nominated by the 

appropriate Government, of which one-half shall be women. 

(3) In tendering its advice, the Advisory Committee shall have regard to the number of women 

employed in the concerned establishment or employment, the nature of work, hours of work, suitability of 

women for employment, as the case may be, the need for providing increasing employment opportunities 

for women, including part-time employment, and such other relevant factors as the Committee may think 

fit. 

(4) The Advisory Committee shall regulate its own procedure. 

(5) The appropriate Government may, after considering the advice tendered to it by the Advisory 

Committee and after giving to the persons concerned in the establishment or employment an opportunity 

to make representations, issue such directions in respect of employment of women workers, as the 

appropriate Government may think fit.  

                                                           
1. Ins. by Act 49 of 1987, s. 2 (w.e.f. 16-12-1987). 



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