Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Act, 1946 · The industrial employment (standing orders) act, 1946
Section 4: Conditions for certification of standing orders
The Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Act, 1946 was repealed and replaced by the Industrial Relations Code, 2020 from 21 November 2025. It still applies to matters and proceedings from before that date, as the repealing law provides.
Standing orders shall be certifiable under this Act if—
(a) provision is made therein for every matter set out in the Schedule which is applicable to the industrial establishment, and
(b) the standing orders are otherwise in conformity with the provisions of this Act; and it1[shall be the function] of the Certifying Officer or appellate authority to adjudicate upon the fairness or reasonableness of the provisions of any standing orders.
State amendments to this section
Karnataka Amendment of section 4.-In section 4 of the principal Act, for the words “Standing Orders shall be certifiable”, the words, brackets and figures “In the event of submitting the draft Standing Order under sub-section (5) of the section 3, the Standing Orders shall be certifiable” shall be substituted. [Vide Karnataka Act 12 of 2014, s. 3] Maharashtra Deletion of section 4 of Act XX of 1946.—Section 4 of the said Act shall be deleted. [Vide Bombay Act XXI of 1958, s. 8]
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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