Report of the Royal Commission on Labour in India

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Identifikator:: 1850495947

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-233603

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Report of the Royal Commission on Labour in India

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: His Majesty's Stationery Off.

Year of publication:: 1931

Scope:: xviii, 580 S.; graph. Darst., Kt.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter XVI. - Workmen's compensation

Collection:: Economics Books

308 CHAPTER XVI. (a) poisoning by benzene and its homologues or sequelae, and (6) chrome ulceration or its sequelae. For the purposes of the Schedule, the descrip- tions of the processes in which these conditions might occur may be taken as (¢) handling benzene or any of its homologues, or any process in the manufacture or involving the use thereof ; and (b) any process involving the use of chromic acid or bichromate of ammonium potassium or sodium or their preparations. With the exception of Sir Victor Sassoon and Sir Alexander Murray, we desire to point out that Section 3 {4} of the Act which limits liability for non-scheduled diseases to those ““ solely and directly attribut- able to a specific injury ” is unduly stringent in its wording and we recommend the excision of the words in italics. Commissioners. We turn now to questions relating to administration and pro- cedure. As we have already stated, the administration of the Act and the settlement of disputes under it devolves on Commissioners specially appointed by the local Governments. The type of officer selected for these appointments differs from province to province. In Bengal workmen’s compensation work for the whole Presidency has been en- trusted to a judicial officer who received a special training for the purpose, and who, although he has still some other judicial work, is mainly occupied with workmen’s compensation. In Bombay the Director of the Labour Office acts as Workmen's Compensation Commissioner for Bombay City and Island and for the leading industrial centres elsewhere, while certain judges act as Commissioners in the non-industrial districts. The effect of this arrangement is that the great bulk of the work is done by an officer who is an expert in labour matters and whois able to bring special knowledge to the subject and to devote special study to it. In Madras the position is somewhat similar, as the Commissioner of Labour acts as Workmen's Compensation Commissioner for the whole Presidency. In other provinces the work is generally done by selected judges or magistrates, some Governments showing a preference for judges and some for magistrates. If a magistrate is entrusted with the work, it is the District Magistrate who is appointed, except in rare cases (e.g., in Jamshed- pur, where no such officer is stationed). Thus the present position is that, while there is no whole-time Workmen's Compensation Commis- sioner in any province, nearly all the work in each of the three Presi- dencies of Bengal, Bombay and Madras is entrusted to a single officer with special qualifications; elsewhere the responsibility rests on judicial and executive officers whose jurisdiction extends. as a rule, to a single district. Specialist Officers. The administration of the Act by specialist officers has given general satisfaction, and we haveno doubt that generally it is by far the best method. The evidence indicates that the district officers’ courts are inadequately equipped for dealing with Workmen’s Compensation claims, that their procedure is too often dilatory and that in some cases they are

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