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Employees Housing Schemes (Special Provisions) Act

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Arrangement of Sections

1. Provision of housing schemes for employees made obligatory in certain cases

2. Housing scheme to conform to prescribed standards, etc

3. Processing of proposals, etc

4. Power to provide furniture

5. Power to grant exemptions

6. Establishment of National Housing Facilitation Council

7. Proceedings of the Council

8. State Committee

9. Periodical review of housing conditions

10. Power to obtain information, etc

11. Penalty for false information, etc

12. Penalty for non-compliance with section 1 or 3

13. Offences by bodies corporate and unincorporate

14. Regulations

15. Interpretation

16. Short title

An Act to make it obligatory for every employer of labour so designated by order to establish, execute and maintain a housing scheme for its employees in every State or part thereof where its establishment is not less than 500 employees and to provide for matters connected therewith.

[1979 No. 54.]

[20th August, 1979]

[Commencement.]

Provision of housing schemes for employees made obligatory in certain cases

1. Provision of housing scheme for employees made obligatory in certain cases

(1) Every designated employer (whether corporate or unincorporate ) shall, not later than six months after the requisite order is made as provided in this section, submit for the consideration of the Minister, proposals for the establishment of a housing scheme for his employees in respect of each State in the Federation (or such number of States as may be applicable in his case) in accordance with the following provisions of this Act.
(2) For the purposes of the subsection (1) of this section, “designated employer” means any employer who-
(a) on or after the commencement of this Act has not less than 500 persons in his employment in any State in the Federation or any part thereof; or
(b) is designated as such by the Minister, with the approval of the President, either by reference to the number of employees (whether or not more than 500) or the turn-over of profits of the trade or business of the employer concerned or otherwise howsoever,

and the name and other relevant particulars of every such designated employer shall be published by the Minister by order in the Federal Gazette.

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