(1)

The appropriate Government may, subject to the condition of previous publication, make rules for carrying out the purposes of this Act.

(2)

In particular, and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such rules may provide for all or any of the following matters, namely:—

(a) the form and mariner in which an application for the registration of an establishment may be made under section 4, the fees payable thereon and the form of a certificate of registration issued under that section;

(b) the form in which an application for the grant or renewal of a licence may be made under section 9 and the particulars it may contain;

(c) the manner in which an investigation is to be made in respect of an application for the grant of a licence and the matters to be taken into account in granting or refusing a licence;

(d) the form of a licence which may be granted or renewed under this Act, the conditions subject to which the licence may be granted or renewed, the fees payable for the grant or renewal of a licence

(e) the circumstances under which licences may be varied or amended under section 10; (f) the form and the manner in which appeals may be filed under section 11 and the procedure to be followed by appellate officers in disposing of the appeals;

(g) the wage rates, holidays, hours of work and other conditions of service which an inter-State migrant workman is entitled under section 13; (h) the period within which wages payable to inter-State migrant workmen should be paid by the contractor under sub-section (1) of section 17 and the manner of certification of such payment under sub-section (2) thereof;

(m) legal aid to inter-State migrant workmen;

(n) any other matter which is required to be, or may be, prescribed under this Act.

(3)

Every rule made by the Central Government under this Act shall be laid, as soon as may be after it is made, before each House of Parliament while it is in session for a total period of thirty days which may be comprised in one session or in two or more successive sessions and if, before the expiry of the session immediately following the session or the successive sessions aforesaid, both Houses agree in making any modification in the rule or both Houses agree that the rule should not be made, the rule shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be; so, however, that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that rule. 36. Repeals and saving.—

(1)

The Orissa Dadan Labour (Control and Regulation) Act, 1975 (Orissa Act 42 of 1975) and any law corresponding to this Act, in force in any State, shall stand repealed.

(2)

Notwithstanding such repeal, anything done or any action taken under the provisions of the Act or law so repeated shall, in so far as such thing or action is not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, be deemed to have been done or taken under the provisions of this Act as if the said provisions were in force when such thing was done or such action was taken and shall continue to be in force accordingly until superseded by anything done or any action taken under this Act.