Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Act, 1946 · The industrial employment (standing orders) act, 1946
Section 7: Date of operation 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The Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Act, 1946 was repealed and replaced by the Industrial Relations Code, 2020 from 21 November 2025.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, unless an appeal is preferred under section 6, come into operation on the expiry of thirty days from the date on which authenticated copies thereof are sent under sub-section (3) of section 5, or where an appeal as aforesaid is preferred, on the expiry of seven days from the date on which copies of the order of the appellate authority are sent under sub-section (2) of section 6.
State amendments to this section
Karnataka Amendment of section 7.-Section 7 shall be renumbered as sub-section (2), thereof and before sub-section (2) as so renumbered, the following shall be inserted, namely:- “(1) Standing Orders ass adopted under sub-section (4) of section 3 shall come into operation on the expiry of 30 days from the date on with the employer and the trade union or workmen representatives agree to adopt the standing orders.” [Vide Karnataka Act 12 of 2014, s. 5] Maharashtra Amendment of section 7 of Act XX of 1946. –In section 7 of the said Act and in the marginal note thereto, after the words “standing orders” the words “or amendments” shall be inserted. [Vide Bombay Act XXI of 1958, s. 11]
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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