Please refer to the attachment below before replying. I want to know what is mentioned in the referred act.
Contract Labour (R&A) Act 1970
Sec 4(a): To every establishment in which twenty or more workmen are employed or were employed on any day of the preceding twelve months as contract labour.
Sec 2(1)(b): A workman shall be deemed to be employed as contract labour in connection with the work of an establishment when he is hired in connection with such work by or through a contractor with or without the knowledge of the employer.
Sec 2(1)(c): "Contractor" in relation to an establishment means a person who undertakes to produce a given result for the establishment other than a mere supply of goods or articles of manufacture to such establishment through contract labour or who supplies contract labour for any work of the establishment and includes a sub-contractor.
Sec 2(1)(e): Establishment means
(i) any office or department of the Government or a local authority.
(ii) any place where any industry, trade, business, manufacture, or occupation is carried on.
Sec 12(1): Licensing of contractor (1) With effect from such date as the appropriate Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint no contractor to whom this Act applies shall undertake or execute any work through contract labour except in accordance with a license issued in that behalf by the licensing officer.
The Labour Law (Exemption from Furnishing Return and Maintaining Register by Certain Establishment) Act 1988
In this act, it defines a small establishment as not less than ten and not more than nineteen. A very small establishment means employed on any day of the preceding 12 months not more than nine. It defines the maintenance of the form and register only, not the licensing limit. The act listed in the schedule is for maintaining the documents for the register, etc.
Sec 1(4)(a) of the Contract (R&A) Act 1970 has clearly defined the applicability of the act.