{"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":"29","heading":"Effect of failure to register agreement","text":"Where a memorandum of any agreement the registration of which is required by section 28, is not sent to the Commissioner as required by that section, the employer shall be liable to pay the full amount of compensation which he is liable to pay under the provisions of this Act, and notwithstanding an thing contained in the proviso to sub-section (1) of section 4, shall not, unless the Commissioner otherwise directs, be entitled to deduct more than half of any amount paid to the 8[employee] by way of compensation whether under the agreement or otherwise.","html":"<p>Where a memorandum of any agreement the registration of which is required by section <a href=\"/employees-compensation-act-1923/section/28/\">28</a>, is not sent to the Commissioner as required by that section, the employer shall be liable to pay the full amount of compensation which he is liable to pay under the provisions of this Act, and notwithstanding an thing contained in the proviso to sub-section (1) of section <a href=\"/employees-compensation-act-1923/section/4/\">4</a>, shall not, unless the Commissioner otherwise directs, be entitled to deduct more than half of any amount paid to the 8[employee] by way of compensation whether under the agreement or otherwise.</p>","words":95,"text_source":"ocr"},"classification":[],"instruments":[],"judgments":[],"corresponds_to":[],"url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/employees-compensation-act-1923/section/29/","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."}