Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Act, 1946
13. Penalties and procedure
(1) An employer who fails to submit draft standing orders as
required by section 3, or who modifies his standing orders otherwise than in
accordance with section 10, shall be punishable with fine which may extend to
five thousand rupees, and in the case of a continuing offence with a further
fine which may extend to two hundred rupees for every day after the first
during which the offence continues.
(2) An employer who does any act in contravention of the
standing orders finally certified under this Act or his industrial
establishment shall be punishable with fine which may extend to one hundred
rupees, and in the case of a continuing offence with a further fine which may
extend to twenty-five rupees for every day after the first during which the
offence continues.
(3) No prosecution for an offence punishable under this section
shall be instituted except with the previous sanction of the appropriate
government.
(4) No court inferior to that of 6[a Metropolitan
Magistrate or Judicial Magistrate of the second class] shall try any offence
under this section.