{"act":{"id":"employees-compensation-act-1923","short_title":"The Employee’s Compensation Act, 1923","long_title":null,"act_number":"8","act_year":1923,"enact_date":null,"enforcement_date":null,"ministry":null,"department":null,"jurisdiction":"Bihar","unit":"section","section_count":54,"in_force":true,"spent":false,"spent_note":null,"duplicate_of":null,"text_source":"ocr","scan_url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/scan/17a23d70-1be8-493c-b790-5a34de728ce5.pdf","url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/employees-compensation-act-1923/"},"unit":"section","section":{"number":"18","heading":null,"text":"[Proof of age.] Rep. by the Workmen's Compensation (Amendment) Act, 1959 (8 of 1959) s. 12 (w.e.f. 1-6-1959). 1[18A. Penalties .- (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 2[section 16, or] 3[(e) fails to inform the employee of his rights to compensation as required under section 17A;] shall be punishable with fine 4[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 5[within six months of the date on which the alleged commission of the offence came to the knowledge of the Commissioner].] COMMISSIONERS","html":"<p>[Proof of age.] Rep. by the Workmen's Compensation (Amendment) Act, 1959 (8 of 1959) s. 12 (w.e.f. 1-6-1959). 1[18A. Penalties .- (1) Whoever- (a) fails to maintain a notice-book which he is required to maintain under sub-section (3) of section <a href=\"/employees-compensation-act-1923/section/10/\">10</a>, 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 2[section <a href=\"/employees-compensation-act-1923/section/16/\">16</a>, or] 3[(e) fails to inform the employee of his rights to compensation as required under section 17A;] shall be punishable with fine 4[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 5[within six months of the date on which the alleged commission of the offence came to the knowledge of the Commissioner].] COMMISSIONERS</p>","words":192,"text_source":"ocr"},"classification":[],"instruments":[],"judgments":[],"corresponds_to":[],"url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/employees-compensation-act-1923/section/18/","note":null,"source_note":"Read from the Government's own scanned gazette with Azure Document Intelligence, then split into sections by their numbering. India Code publishes no text for this Act. The scan itself is mirrored into our own storage and served at /scan/17a23d70-1be8-493c-b790-5a34de728ce5.pdf, so the reading here can be checked against the page it came from without depending on India Code's own copy staying where it is (it was at https://indiacode.gov.in/server/api/core/bitstreams/7df3415c-6e5c-4c3b-ae84-30f67965cd1f/content).","judgments_note":"Judgment holdings are the ratio decidendi as extracted from the order by eCourts India, reproduced unaltered. Reported judgments only.","licence":"Published with commentary and other original matter under s.52(1)(q)(ii), Copyright Act 1957."}