Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Act, 1946 · The industrial employment (standing orders) act, 1946
Section 13A: Interpretation, etc., of standing orders
The Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Act, 1946 was repealed and replaced by the Industrial Relations Code, 2020 from 21 November 2025.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.
If any question arises as to the application or interpretation of a standing order certified under this Act, any employer or workman [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 amendments to this section
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] Maharashtra Amendment of section 13A of Act XX of 1946.— In section 13A, after the words "standing order" and in the marginal note thereto after the words "standing orders", insert the words "model standing order or amendments"; and after the word "workman", insert "or any prescribed representatives of workmen". [Vide Bombay Act XXI of 1958, s. 17]
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.