Section - 18 - Industrial Disputes Act, 1947

Section - 18 - Persons on whom settlements and awards are binding

Persons on whom settlements and awards are binding.

18.

[(1) A settlement arrived at by agreement between the employer and workman otherwise than in the course of conciliation proceeding shall be binding on the parties to the agreement.

(2)

[Subject to the provisions of sub-section (3), an arbitration award] which has become enforceable shall be binding on the parties to the agreement who referred the dispute to arbitration.]

[(3)]A settlement arrived at in the course of conciliation proceedings under this Act

[or an arbitration award in a case where a notification has been issued under sub-section (3A) of section 10A] or

[an award

[of a Labour Court, Tribunal or National Tribunal] which has become enforceable] shall be binding on—

(a) all parties to the industrial dispute;

(b) all other parties summoned to appear in the proceedings as parties to the dispute, unless the Board,

[arbitrator],

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