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Act. My Honourable friend Mr. Joshi will remember that the definition of workmen in the Workmen’s Compensation Act is a very circumscribed and limited definition. It excludes from the category of workmen, workmen who are casual employees, and one does not know what would be the number of casual employees that may be employed in any particular industry to which this Bill applies. My Honourable friend Mr. Joshi will also recollect that the Workmen’s Compensation Act excludes the category of people who are employed in clerical capacity. Our Bill does not exclude either the casual employee or the people employed in clerical capacity. I think Mr. Joshi will agree that although on an examination he will find that some minor category of workmen has been omitted, the definition of workmen is much larger than what it is under the Workmen’s Compensation Act. I hope that my Honourable friend will, on this assurance, withdraw his amendment.
- Mr. President (The Honourable Sir Abdur Rahim) : The question is :
“ That for clause 6 of the Bill the following be substituted :—
‘ 6. This Act shall apply to all those workmen to whom the Workmen’s Compensation Act, 1923, applies’ ”.
The motion was negatived.
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : My next amendment No. 5 is dependent upon clause 3 which the House now agreed that it should stand over.
Mr. President (The Honourable Sir Abdur Rahim) : Is this in sub-stitution of the other amendment? Do I understand that if this amendment is carried, then in that case, amendment No.
3 to clause 3 will be unnecessary ?
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : No, Sir. It is necessary. Both are necessary.
Mr. President (The Honourable Sir Abdur Rahim): In that case, I do not see why you cannot move this amendment now.
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar: I will move this amendment No. 5 now. Sir I move :
“ That sub-clause (2) of clause 6 of the Bill be omitted.”
- Legislative Assembly Debates (Central), Vol. III, 13lh August 1943, p. 711.