Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act, 2013
Bare Act · 2013
An Act to provide for the prohibition of employment as manual scavengers,rehabilitation of manual scavengers and their families, and for mattersconnected therewith or incidental thereto.
- Act number
- 25 of 2013
- Enacted
- 18 September 2013
- Contents
- 39 sections · 9 chapters
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Contents
Chapter I — Preliminary
- Section 1 – Short title, extent and commencement
- Section 2 – Definitions
- Section 3 – Act to have overriding effect
Chapter II — Identification Of Insanitary Latrines
Chapter III — Prohibition Of Insanitary Latrines And Employment And Engagement As Manual Scavenger
- Section 5 – Prohibition of insanitary latrines and employment and engagement of manual scavenger
- Section 7 – Prohibition of persons from engagement or employment for hazardous cleaning of sewers and septic tanks (preview)
- Section 8 – Penalty for contravention of section 5 or section 6 (preview)
- Section 9 – Penalty for contravention of section 7 (preview)
- Section 10 – Limitation of prosecution (preview)
Sections
- Section 6 – Contract, agreement, etc., to be void (preview)
- Section 34 – Protection of action taken in good faith (preview)
Chapter IV — Identification Of Manual Scavengers In Urban And Rural Areas And Their Rehabilitation
- Section 11 – Survey of manual scavengers in urban areas by Municipalities (preview)
- Section 12 – Application by an urban manual scavenger for identification (preview)
- Section 13 – Rehabilitation of persons identified as manual scavengers by a Municipality (preview)
- Section 14 – Survey of manual scavengers in rural areas by Panchayats (preview)
- Section 15 – Application by a rural manual scavenger for identification (preview)
- Section 16 – Rehabilitation of persons identified as manual scavengers by a Panchayat (preview)
Chapter V — Implementing Authorities
- Section 17 – Responsibility of local authorities to ensure elimination of insanitary latrines (preview)
- Section 18 – Authorities who may be specified for implementing provisions of this Act (preview)
- Section 19 – Duty of District Magistrate and authorised officers (preview)
- Section 20 – Appointment of inspectors and their powers (preview)
Chapter VI — Procedure For Trial
- Section 21 – Offences to be tried by Executive Magistrate (preview)
- Section 22 – Offence to be cognizable and non-bailable (preview)
- Section 23 – Offences by companies (preview)
Chapter VII — Vigilance Committees
- Section 24 – Vigilance Committees (preview)
- Section 25 – Functions of Vigilance Committee (preview)
- Section 26 – State Monitoring Committee (preview)
- Section 27 – Functions of the State Monitoring Committee (preview)
- Section 28 – Duty of States or Union territories to send periodic reports to the Central Government (preview)
- Section 29 – Central Monitoring Committee (preview)
- Section 30 – Functions of the Central Monitoring Committee (preview)
- Section 31 – Functions of National Commission for Safai Karamcharis (preview)
- Section 32 – Power of State Government to designate an appropriate authority to monitor the implementation of this Act (preview)
Chapter VIII — Miscellaneous
- Section 33 – Duty of local authorities and other agencies to use modern technology for cleaning of sewers, etc (preview)
- Section 35 – Jurisdiction of civil courts barred (preview)
- Section 36 – Power of appropriate Government to make rules (preview)
- Section 37 – Power of Central Government to make model rules (preview)
- Section 38 – Power to remove difficulties (preview)
- Section 39 – Power to exempt (preview)