Employee's Compensation Act, 1923
Text as published by the Legislative Department, from the copy archived on 31 March 2020. Amendments made after that date and before the repeal may be missing; check the official Gazette for them.
Repealed and replaced by the Code on Social Security, 2020 from 21 November 2025. It still governs matters and proceedings from before that date, as the repealing law provides, which is why the judgments below apply it.
Chapter I: Preliminary
Chapter II: Employee’S Compensation
- 3 Employer’s liability for compensation
- 4 Amount of compensation
- 4A Compensation to be paid when due and penalty for default
- 5 Method of calculating wages
- 6 Review
- 7 Commutation of half-monthly payments
- 8 Distribution of compensation
- 9 Compensation not to be assigned, attached or charged
- 10 Notice and claim
- 10A Power to require from employers statements regarding fatal accidents
- 10B Reports of fatal accidents and serious bodily injuries
- 11 Medical examination
- 12 Contracting
- 13 Remedies of employer against stranger
- 14 Insolvency of employer
- 14A Compensation to be first charge on assets transferred by employer
- 15 Special provisions relating to masters and seamen
- 15A Special provisions relating to captains and other members of crew of aircrafts
- 15B Special provisions relating to employees abroad of companies and motor vehicles
- 16 Returns as to compensation
- 17 Contracting out
- 17A Duty of employer to inform employee of his rights
- 18 [Repealed
- 18A Penalties
Chapter III: Commissioners
- 19 Reference to Commissioners
- 20 Appointment of Commissioners
- 21 Venue of proceedings and transfer
- 22 Form of application
- 22A Power of Commissioner to require further deposit in cases of fatal accident
- 23 Powers and procedure of Commissioners
- 24 Appearance of parties
- 25 Method of recording evidence
- 25A Time limit of disposal of cases relating to compensation
- 26 Costs
- 27 Power to submit eases
- 28 Registration of Agreements
- 29 Effect of failure to register agreement
- 30 Appeals
- 30A [Omitted
- 31 Recovery
Chapter IV: Rules
Source: India Code (Legislative Department), the text of the Act as it stood before its repeal. Words in square brackets [ ] were inserted or substituted by later amending Acts, and *** marks words omitted by an amendment. The amendment footnotes are not reproduced here. Official text on India Code.