Section 13A. Interpretation, etc., of standing orders.
If any question arises as to the application or interpretation of a standing order certified under this Act, any employer or workman3[or a trade union or other representative body of the workmen] may refer the question to any one of the Labour Courts constituted under the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (14 of 1947), and specified for the disposal of such proceeding by the appropriate Government by notification in the Official Gazette, and the Labour Court to which the question is so referred shall, after giving the parties an opportunity of being heard, decide the question and such decision shall be final and binding on the parties.
STATE AMENDMENT
Karnataka
Amendment of section 13-A.-In section 13-A of the principal Act, after the words “Standing Orders Certified the words “or adopted” shall be inserted.
[Vide Karnataka Act 12 of 2014, s. 12]
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- 1. This Act has been extended to—(i) Goa, Daman and Diu by Reg. 12 of 1962, s. 3 and the Sch.(ii) Pondicherry by Regulation 7 of 1963, s. 3 and the Sch. I (w.e.f. 1-10-1963), and(iii) the whole of the Union territory of Lakshadweep, vide Reg. 8 of 1965, s. 3 and the Sch.The Act has been amended in its application to—(i) Maharashtra by Maharashtra Act 54 of 1974.(ii) Mysore by Mysore Act 37 of 1975.(iii) Madras by Madras Act 24 of 1960, and(iv) Andhra Pradesh by A. P. Act 9 of 1969.
- 2. Subs. by the A.O. 1950, for “all the Provinces of India”.
- 3. The words “except the State of Jammu and Kashmir” omitted by Act 51 of 1970, s. 2 (w.e.f. 1-9-1971).
- 4. Subs. by Act 16 of 1961, s. 2, for sub-section (3).
- 5. Second proviso omitted by Act 39 of 1963, s. 2 (w.e.f. 23-12-1963).
- 6. Ins. by s. 2, ibid. (w.e.f. 23-12-1963).
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- 1. Subs. by Act 39 of 1963, s. 3, for cl. (a) (w.e.f. 23-12-1963).
- 2. Subs. by the A.O. 1950, for “Federal railway”.
- 3. Added by Act 18 of 1982, s. 2 (w.e.f. 17-5-1982).
- 4.Subs. by Act 16 of 1961, s.3, for cl. (c).
- 5.Subs. by s. 3, ibid.,“for clause (e) of sub-clause (1) of section 9 of Factories Act, 1934 (25 of 1934)”.
- 6. Subs. by s. 3, ibid., for sub-clause (ii)
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- 1. Subs. by Act 18 of 1982, s. 2 for cl. (i) (w.e.f. 17-5-1982).
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- 1. Subs. by Act 36 of 1956, s. 32 for “shall not be the function” (w.e.f.17-9-1956).
- 2. Subs. by Act 18 of 1982, s. 3, for “Any person” (w.e.f. 17-5-1982).
- 3. Subs. by Act 16 of 1961, s. 4, for “twenty-one days”.
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- 1. Ins. by Act 18 of 1982, s. 4 (w.e.f. 17-5-1982).
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- 1. Subs. by Act 36 of 1956, s. 32, for sub-section (2) (w.e.f. 17-9-1956).
- 2. Certain words omitted by Act 39 of 1963, s. 4 (w.e.f. 23-12-1963).
- 3. Ins. by s. 4, ibid. (w.e.f. 23-12-1963).
- 4. Ins. by Act 18 of 1982, s. 5 (w.e.f. 17-5-1982).
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- 1. S. 11 renumbered as sub-section (1) thereof by Act 39 of 1963, s. 5 (w.e.f. 23-12-1963).
- 2. Subs. by Act 18 of 1982, s. 6, for “sections 480 and 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (5 of 1898)”(w.e.f. 17-5-1982).
- 3. Ins. by Act 39 of 1963, s. 5 (w.e.f. 23-12-1963).
- 4. Ins. by s. 6, ibid. (w.e.f. 23-12-1963).
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- 1. Subs. by Act 18 of 1982, s. 7, for “a Metropolitation Magistrate or Judicial Magistrate of the second class” (w.e.f. 17-5-1982).
- 2. Ins. by Act 36 of 1956, s. 32 (w.e.f. 10-3-1957).
- 3. Ins. by Act 18 of 1982, s. 8 (w.e.f. 17-5-1982).
- 4. Subs. by Act 39 of 1963, s. 7, for s. 14A (w.e.f. 23-12-1963).
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- 1. Ins. by Act 16 of 1961, s. 6.
- 2. Subs. by Act 18 of 1982, s. 9, for certain words (w.e.f. 17-5-1982).