Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970 · Chapter IV: Licensing of Contractors
Section 11: Appointment of licensing officers
The Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970 was repealed and replaced by the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020 from 21 November 2025. It still applies to matters and proceedings from before that date, as the repealing law provides.
The appropriate Government may, by an order notified in the Official Gazette,—
(a) appoint such persons, being Gazetted Officers of Government, as it thinks fit to be licensing officers for the purposes of this Chapter; and
(b) define the limits, within which a licensing officer shall exercise the powers conferred on licensing officers by or under this Act.
Source: India Code (Legislative Department), the text of the Act as it stood before its repeal. Words in square brackets [ ] were inserted or substituted by later amending Acts, and *** marks words omitted by an amendment. The amendment footnotes are not reproduced here. Official text on India Code.
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