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DKM Act

Overview
  • 1Interpretation
  • 2Commencement
  • 3Publication of order
  • 4Appointment of registering-officer
  • 5Licensing and registration of mazdoors
  • 6Period of license
  • 7Details of license
  • 8Licensed mazdoor to wear badge
  • 9Penalty for omitting to wear badge
  • 10Rates of hire to be fixed and published
  • 11Mazdoor entitled to payment according to rates fixed, subject to special agreements for lower rates
  • 12Registration of mazdoors when engaged as monthly servants
  • 13Penalty for certain offences committed by registered mazdoors
  • 14Penalty for being unlicensed or lending license to another
  • 15Mazdoor entitled to have new badge on loss or obliteration of former one
  • 16Penalty for neglecting to deliver up badge, lending badge, etc
  • 17Penalty for using or having a counterfeit badge
  • 18Penalty for not depositing lost or unclaimed property
  • 19Conviction to be endorsed on mazdoor's license. Penalty for failing to produce license
  • 20Revocation or suspension of mazdoor's license on his conviction of any offence
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DKM Act 4

Section 4 · Appointment of registering-officer

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The Commissioners at a meeting shall, for the purposes of this Act, appoint a registering-officer.

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