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Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 · Chapter VB: Special Provisions Relating to Lay-Off, Retrenchment and Closure in Certain Establishments

Section 25L: Definitions

The Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 was repealed and replaced by the Industrial Relations Code, 2020 from 21 November 2025. It still applies to matters and proceedings from before that date, as the repealing law provides.

In plain words

For Chapter VB, an industrial establishment means a factory, a mine or a plantation.

  • For companies where the Central Government holds at least fifty-one per cent of the paid-up share capital, and for corporations set up by Central law, the Central Government is the appropriate Government.

A simplified explanation, prepared with AI assistance from the official text below and checked automatically against it for numbers and cross-references. The official text is the law and prevails over this summary. Not legal advice.

Official text

For the purposes of this Chapter,—

(a) “industrial establishment” means—

(i) a factory as defined in clause (m) of section 2 of the Factories Act, 1948 (63 of 1948);

(ii) a mine as defined in clause (i) of sub-section (1) of section 2 of the Mines Act, 1952 (35 of 1952); or

(iii) a plantation as defined in clause (f) of section 2 of the Plantations Labour Act, 1951 (69 of 1951);

(b) notwithstanding anything contained in sub-clause (ii) of clause (a) of section 2,—

(i) in relation to any company in which not less than fifty-one per cent. of the paid-up share capital is held by the Central Government, or

(ii) in relation to any corporation [not being a corporation referred to in sub-clause (i) of clause (a) of section 2] established by or under any law made by Parliament, the Central Government shall be the appropriate Government.

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.

Supreme Court judgments citing the section 25L