Section 18A: Penalties

The Employee's Compensation Act, 1923 was repealed and replaced by the Code on Social Security, 2020 from 21 November 2025. It still applies to matters and proceedings from before that date, as the repealing law provides.

(1) Whoever—

(a) fails to maintain a notice-book which he is required to maintain under sub-section (3) of section 10, or

(b) fails to send to the Commissioner a statement which he is required to sent under sub-section (1) of section 10A, or

(c) fails to send a report which he is required to sent under section 10B, or

(d) fails to make a return which he is required to make under [section 16, or] [(e) fails to inform the employee of his rights to compensation as required under section 17A;] shall be punishable with fine [which shall not be less than fifty thousand rupees but which may extend to one lakh rupees].

(2) No prosecution under this section shall be instituted except by or with the previous sanction of a Commissioner, and no Court shall take cognizance of any offence under this section, unless complaint thereof is made [within six months of the date on which the alleged commission of the offence came to the knowledge of the Commissioner].]

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.

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