The Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act, 2013 — Bare Act, All Sections & Free PDF
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Overview
An Act to provide for the prohibition of employment as manual scavengers, rehabilitation of manual scavengers and their families, and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
Sections (Showing 1 to 10 of 39)
Section 1 to Section 10 (10 Sections)
Short title, extent and commencement.
(1) This Act may be called the Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengersand their Rehabilitation Act, 2013. (2) It extends to the whole of India 1 ***. (3) It shall come into ...
Definitions.
(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,— (a) "agency" means any agency, other than a local authority, which mayundertake sanitation facilities in an area and includ...
Act to have overriding effect.
The provisions of this Act shall have effect notwithstanding anything inconsistenttherewith contained in the Employment of Manual Scavengers and Construction of DryLatrines (Prohib...
Local authorities to survey insanitary latrines and provide sanitary community latrines.
(1) Every local authority shall,— (a) carry out a survey of insanitary latrines existing within its jurisdiction, andpublish a list of such insanitary latrines, in such manner as m...
Prohibition of insanitary latrines and employment and engagement of manual scavenger.
(1) Notwithstanding anything inconsistent therewith contained in the Employmentof Manual Scavengers and Construction of Dry Latrines (Prohibition) Act, 1993 (46 of 1993), no person...
Contract, agreement, etc., to be void.
(1) Any contract, agreement or other instrument entered into or executed before thedate of commencement of this Act, engaging or employing a person for the purpose ofmanual scaveng...
Prohibition of persons from engagement or employment for hazardous cleaning of sewers and septic tanks.
No person, local authority or any agency shall, from such date as the StateGovernment may notify, which shall not be later than one year from the date of commencementof this Act, e...
Penalty for contravention of section 5 or section 6.
Whoever contravenes the provisions of section 5 or section 6 shall for the firstcontravention be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year orwith fine wh...
Penalty for contravention of section 7.
Whoever contravenes the provisions of section 7 shall for the first contravention bepunishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to two years or with fine whichmay exte...
Limitation of prosecution.
No court shall take cognizance of any offence punishable under this Actexceptupon a complaint thereof is made by a person in this behalf within three months from the dateof the occ...
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