Employees State Insurance Act, 1948

Section - 1 - Short title, extent, commencement and application

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Section - 2 - Definitions

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Section - 2A - Registration of factories and establishments

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Section - 3 - Establishment of Employees's State Insurance Corporation

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Section - 4 - Constitution of Corporation

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Section - 5 - Term of office of members of the Corporation

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Section - 6 - Eligibility for re-nomination or re-election

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Section - 7 - Authentication of orders, decisions, etc

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Section - 8 - Constitution of Standing Committee

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Section - 9 - Term of office of members of Standing Committee

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Section - 10 - Medical Benefit Council

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Section - 11 - Resignation of membership

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Section - 12 - Cessation of membership

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Section - 13 - Disqualification

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Section - 14 - Filling of vacancies

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Section - 15 - Fees and allowances

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Section - 16 - Principal Officers

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Section - 17 - Staff

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Section - 18 - Powers of the Standing Committee

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Section - 19 - Corporation’s power to promote measures for health, etc., of insured persons

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Section - 20 - Meetings of Corporation, Standing Committee and Medical Benefit Council

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Section - 21 - Supersession of the Corporation and Standing Committee

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Section - 22 - Duties of Medical Benefits Council

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Section - 23 - Duties of [Director General and the Financial Commissioner]

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Section - 24 - Acts of Corporation, etc., not invalid by reason of defect in constitution, etc

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Section - 25 - Regional Boards, Local Committees, Regional and Local Medical Benefit Councils

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Section - 26 - Employees’ State Insurance Fund

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Section - 27 - Grant by the Central Government

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Section - 28 - Purposes for which the fund may be expended

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Section - 28A - Administrative expenses

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Section - 29 - Holding of property, etc

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Section - 30 - Vesting of the property in the Corporation

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Section - 31 - Expenditure by Central Government to be treated as a loan

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Section - 32 - Budget estimates

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Section - 33 - Accounts

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Section - 34 - Audit

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Section - 35 - Annual report

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Section - 36 - Budget, audited accounts and the annual report to be placed before Parlia­ment

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Section - 37 - Valuation of assets and liabilities

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Section - 38 - All employees to be insured

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Section - 39 - Contributions

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Section - 40 - Principal employer to pay contributions in the first instance

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Section - 41 - Recovery of contributions from immediate employer

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Section - 42 - General provisions as to payment of contributions

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Section - 43 - Method of payment of contribution

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Section - 44 - Employers to furnish returns and maintain registers in certain cases

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Section - 45 - Social Security Officers, their functions and duties.

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Section - 45A - Determination of contributions In certain cases

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Section - 45AA - Appellate authority.

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Section - 45B - Recovery of contributions

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Section - 45C - Issue of certificate to the Recovery Officer

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Section - 45D - Recovery Officer to whom certificate is to be forwarded

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Section - 45E - Validity of certificate and amendment thereof

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Section - 45F - Stay of proceedings under certificate and amendment or withdrawal thereof

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Section - 45G - Other modes of recovery

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Section - 45H - Application of certain provisions of the Income-tax Act

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Section - 45I - Definitions

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Section - 46 - Benefits

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Section - 47 - When person eligible for sickness benefit

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Section - 48 - When person deemed available for employment

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Section - 49 - Sickness benefit

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Section - 50 - Maternity benefit

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Section - 51 - Disablement benefit

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Section - 51A - Presumption as to accident arising in course of employment

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Section - 51B - Accidents happening while acting in breach of regulations, etc

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Section - 51C - Accidents happening while travelling in employer’s transport

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Section - 51D - Accidents happening while meeting emergency

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Section - 51E - Accidents happening while commuting to the place of work and vice versa

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Section - 52 - Dependant’s benefits

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Section - 52A - Occupational disease

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Section - 53 - Bar against receiving or recovery of compensation or damages under any other law

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Section - 54 - Determination of question of disablement

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Section - 54A - References to medical boards and appeals to medical appeal tribunals and Employees’ Insurance Courts

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Section - 55 - Review of decisions by medical board of medical appeal Tribunal

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Section - 55A - Review of dependants’ benefit

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Section - 56 - Medical benefit

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Section - 57 - Scale of medical benefit

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Section - 58 - Provision of medical treatment by [State] Government

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Section - 59 - Establishment and maintenance of hospitals, etc., by Corporation

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Section - 59A - Provision of medical benefit by the Corporation in lieu of State Govern­ment

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Section - 59B - Medical and para-medical education

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Section - 60 - Benefit not assignable or attachable

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Section - 61 - Bar of benefits under other enactments

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Section - 62 - Persons not to commute cash benefits

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Section - 63 - Persons not entitled to receive benefit in certain cases

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Section - 64 - Recipients of sickness or disablement benefit to observe conditions

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Section - 65 - Benefits not to be combined

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Section - 66 - Corporation’s right to recover damages from employer in certain cases

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Section - 67 - Corporations right to be indemnified in certain cases

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Section - 68 - Corporation’s rights where a principal employer fails or neglects to pay any contribution

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Section - 69 - Liability of owner or occupier of factories, etc., for excessive sickness ben­efit

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Section - 70 - Repayment of benefit improperly received

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Section - 71 - Benefit payable up to and including day of death

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Section - 72 - Employer not to reduce wages, etc

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Section - 73 - Employer not to dismiss or punish employee during period of sickness, etc

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Section - 73A - Definitions.

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Section - 73B - Power to frame Schemes

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Section - 73C - Collection of user charges.

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Section - 73D - Scheme for other beneficiaries.

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Section - 73E - Power to amend Scheme.

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Section - 73F - Laying of Scheme framed under this Chapter.

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Section - 74 - Constitution of Employees’ Insurance Court

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Section - 75 - Matters to be decided by Employees’ Insurance Court

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Section - 76 - Institution of proceedings, etc

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Section - 77 - Commencement of proceedings

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Section - 78 - Powers of Employees’ Insurance Court

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Section - 79 - Appearance by legal practitioners, etc

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Section - 80 - Benefit not admissible unless claimed in time

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Section - 81 - Reference to High Court

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Section - 82 - Appeal

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Section - 83 - Stay of payment pending appeal

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Section - 84 - Punishment for false statement

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Section - 85 - Punishment for failure to pay contributions, etc

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Section - 85A - Enhanced punishment in certain cases after previous conviction

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Section - 85B - Power to recover damages

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Section - 85C - Power of court to make orders

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Section - 86 - Prosecutions

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Section - 86A - Offences by companies

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Section - 87 - Exemption of a factory or establishment or class of factories, or establish­ments

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Section - 88 - Exemption of persons or class of persons

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Section - 89 - Corporation to make representation

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Section - 90 - Exemption of factories or establishments belonging to Government or any local authority

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Section - 91 - Exemption from one or more provisions of the Act

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Section - 91A - Exemptions to be either prospective or retrospective

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Section - 91AA - Central Government to be appropriate Government.

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Section - 91B - Misuse of benefits

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Section - 91C - Writing off of losses

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Section - 92 - Power of Central Government to give directions

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Section - 93 - Corporation officers and servants to be public servants

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Section - 93A - Liability in case of transfer of establishment

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Section - 94 - Contributions, etc., due to Corporation to have priority over other debts

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Section - 94A - Delegation of powers

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Section - 95 - Power of Central Government to make rules

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Section - 96 - Power of [State] Governments to make rules

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Section - 97 - Power of Corporation to make regulations

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Section - 98 - Corporation may undertake duties in the Indian States

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Section - 99 - Medical care for the families of insured persons

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Section - 99A - Power to remove difficulties

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Section - 100 - Repeals and savings

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SCH I - FIRST SCHEDULE

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SCH II - SECOND SCHEDULE

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SCH III - THIRD SCHEDULE

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