Section No :  
Legislative Enactments
ESTATE LABOUR (INDIAN)
Marginal Notes
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Estate Labour (Indian) Ordinance.
2. Construction.
3. Interpretation.
4. Certain provisions of the Service Contracts Ordinance extended to labourers and employers and to acts and defaults of third parties in respect of or in relation to them.
5. Verbal and implied contracts of service.
6. Payment of wages
7. Written contracts.
8. Wages made a first charge on estate.
9. Wages may be sued for in Primary Court whatever The amount.
10. Labourers may sue jointly in one suit.
11. Proprietor of estate to be party defendant.
12. Party sued may claim set-off.
13. Right of mortgagee
14. Proprietor may obtain judgment in same suit against others who have actually employed the labourers.
15. Procedure.
16. Returns.
17. Offences.Penalty. Evidence.
18. Money paid or promised for inducing labourer to quit service not recoverable.
19. Immunity of labourers from arrest on civil process.
20. Notice to determine contract of service.
21. Declarations that labourers have been duly paid.
22. Duty of employer to prepare and keep a complete register of labourers.
23. Duty of employer to issue discharge certificate and penalty for default. [3,14 of 1978]
24. Separate room to be provided for each married couple living in the "lines" of an estate.
25. Forms to be sent to labourer's employer by Emigration Commisioner
26. Offences in relation to discharge tickets and registers of labourers.
27. Power to alter forms.
28. Commissioner or person authorized by him may institute proceedings.