Building and Other Construction Workers (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1996
1.Short title, extent, commencement and application.-
(1) This Act may be called the Building and
Other Construction Workers (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service)
Act, 1996.
(2) It extends to the whole of India .
(3) It shall be deemed to have come into force on the 1st day of March, 1996.
(4) It applies to every establishment which employs, or had employed on any day
of the preceding twelve months, ten or more building workers in any building or
other construction work.
Explanation.--- For the purposes of this sub-section, the building
workers employed in different relays in a day either by the employer or the
contractor shall be taken into account in computing the number of building
workers employed in the establishment.