The PLANTATIONS LABOUR (ASSAM AMENDMENT) ACT, 2017

Registered No.-768/97 
THE ASSAM GAZETTE 
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EXTRAORDINARY 
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PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHORITY 
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No. 105 Dispur, Wednesday, 7th March, 2018, 16th Phalguna, 1939 (S. E.) 
GOVERNMENT OF ASSAM 
ORDERS BY THE GOVERNOR 
LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT : : : LEGISLATIVE BRANCH 
NOTIFICATION 
The 3rd March, 2018 
No. LGL.14/2017/8.- The following Act of the Assam Legislative Assembly which 
received the assent of the President on 10th February , 2018 is hereby published for general 
information. 
ASSAM ACT NO. I OF 2018 
(Received the assent of the President on 10th February, 2018) 
THE PLANTATIONS LABOUR 
(ASSAM AMENDMENT) ACT, 2017 
606 THE ASSAM GAZETTE, EXTRAORDINARY, MARCH 7, 2018 
Preamble 
Short title, 
extent and 
commencement 
AN 
ACT 
further to amend the Plantations Labour Act, 1951, in its 
application to the State of Assam. 
Whereas it is expedient further to amend the Act No. 69 of 
Plantations Labour Act, 1951, hereinafter referred to as the 1951 
principal Act, in its application to the State of Assam, in the 
manner hereinafter appearing; 
It is hereby enacted in the Sixty-eighth Year of the 
Republic of India as follows :-
1. (1) This Act may be called the Plantations Labour (Assam 
Amendment) Act, 201 7. 
(2) It extends to the whole of the State of Assam. 
(3) It shall come into force at once. 
Amendment of 2. In the principal Act, for existing section 14, the following 
section 14 shall be substituted, namely:-
"14. Educational Facilities. - Where the children between 
the ages of six and fourteen of workers employed in any 
plantatimi exceed twenty five in number, the State 
Government may make rules requiring every employer to 
provide educational facilities for the children in such 
manner and of such standard as may be prescribed." · 
S. M. BUZAR BARUAH, 
Commissioner & Secretary to the Government of Assam, 
Legislative Department, Dispur. 
Guwahati : Printed and Published by the Dy. Directors (P & S), Directorate of Printing & Stationery, Assam, Guwahati-21 . 
Extraordinary Gazette No. 209 - 200 + 10 - 07 - 03- 2018. (visit at- www.dpns .assam.gov.in) 

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