This document provides an overview and summary of three key pieces of social legislation in India: the Factories Act of 1948, the Workmen's Compensation Act of 1923, and the Maternity Benefit Act of 1961. The Factories Act aims to safeguard worker health and safety. The Workmen's Compensation Act provides compensation to workers injured on the job. The Maternity Benefit Act protects women's dignity during pregnancy and mandates maternity leave and benefits. The document outlines provisions and penalties within each act as well as their objectives to promote health, welfare, and social justice.

1. ASSIGNMENT ON:
SOCIAL LEGISLATION AND HUMAN RIGHTS
SUBMITTED BY: SARATH KT (MSW)
SNDP YSS COLLEGE PERINTHALMANNA

2. TOPIC
FACTORIES ACT 1948, WORKMENS
COMPENSATION ACT 1923, MATERNITY
BENEFIT ACT 1961.

3. INTRODUCTION
In this syllabus we need to know about the
social legislation and human rights and it’s act
and other amendment in this assignment the
student understand the three acts that is
factories act 1948, workmens compensation
act 1923, and maternity benefit act 1961.

4. FACTORIES ACT
 The Factories Act 1948 was an Act of Parliament
passed in the United Kingdom by the Labour
government of Clement Attlee.
 It was passed with the intention of safeguarding the
health of workers.
 Under the legislation, young persons under the age of
eighteen became subject to medical examination not
only on entry to the place of work, but annually
thereafter.
 Certificates of fitness were also made a requirement
for young people employed in the loading, unloading
and coaling of ships and other kinds of work in ships
on harbour or wet dock,

5. TITLE AND EXTENSION
 This act may be called the factories act, 1948
 It extends to the whole of india
 It shall come into force on the 1st day of April
1949

6. HEALTH
Cleanliness
Disposal of wastes and effluents
Ventilation and temperature
Lighting
Drinking water
Latrines and Urinals
Spittoons

7. PROVISIONS
 OBJECTIVES
The main objective of the Act is not only to ensure
adequate safety measures but also to promote health and
welfare of the workers employed in factories as well as to
prevent haphazard growth of factories.
 COVERAGE OF THE ACT
The coverage of the Act is confined to the: - factories using
power and employing 10 or more workers on any working
day of the preceding twelve months; factories not using
power and employing 20 or more workers on any working
day of the preceding twelve months; and the factories
specially notified under Section 85 of the Factories Act by the
State Govts./Union Territories.

8. PENALTIES
 This Act or of any rules made there under or of any order
in writing given there under, the occupier and manager of
the factory shall each be guilty of an offence and
punishable with imprisonment for a term which may
extend to two years or with fine which may extend to one
lakh rupees

9. WORKMENS COMPENSATION ACT 1923
 The Workmen’s Compensation Act, implemented in 1923
 It provides for payment of compensation to workmen and
their dependants in case of injury and accident (including
certain occupational disease) arising out of and in the
course of employment and resulting in disablement or
death.
 The amount of compensation to be paid depends on the
nature of the injury and the average monthly wages and
age of workmen.
 The minimum and maximum rates of compensation
payable for death (in such cases it is paid to the
dependents of workmen) and for disability have been
fixed and is subject to revision from time to time.

10. TITLE AND EXTENSION
 (1) This Act may be called the Workmen's
Compensation Act 1923.
 (2) It extends to the whole of India.
 (3) It shall come into force on the first day of
July 1924

11. PENALTIES
 (1) Whoever –
 (a) fails to maintain a notice-book which he is required
to maintain under sub- section (3) of section 10 or
 (b) fails to send to the Commissioner a statement which
he is required to send under sub-section (1) of section
10A or
 (2) No prosecution under this section shall be instituted
except by or with the previous sanction of a
Commissioner and no Court shall take cognizance of
any offence under this section unless complaint thereof
is made within six months of the date on which the
alleged commission of the offence came to the
knowledge of the Commissioner.

12. MATERNITY BENEFIT ACT 1961
 12th December, 1961.ACT 53
 The object of maternity leave and benefit is to protect
the dignity of motherhood by providing for the full and
healthy maintenance of women and her child when she is
not working.
 With the advent of modern age, as the number of women
employees is growing, the maternity leave and other
maternity benefits are becoming increasingly common.
 But there was no beneficial piece of legislation in the
horizen which is intended to achieve the object of doing
social justice to women workers employed in factories,
mines and plantation.

13. TITLE AND EXTENSION
1) This Act may be called the Maternity
Benefit Act, 1961.
(2) It extends to the whole of India
(3) It shall come into force on such date as
may be notified in this behalf in the Official

14. PROVISION
i) No employer shall knowingly employ a
woman in any establishment during the six weeks
immediately following the day of her delivery or
her miscarriage.

 iii) No woman shall be entitled to maternity benefit
unless she has actually worked in an establishment
of the employer from whom she claims maternity
benefit, for a period of not less than eighty days in
the twelve months immediately preceding the date
of her expected delivery.

15. The maximum period for which any woman
shall be entitled to maternity benefit shall be
twelve weeks, that is to say, six weeks up to
and including the day of her delivery and six
weeks immediately following that day.

16. PENALTIES
 Penalty for obstructing Inspector
Any person from appearing before or being examined
by an Inspector shall be punishable with
imprisonment which may extend to one year, or with
fine which may extend to five thousand rupees, or
with both.

17. CONCLUSION
 The student get a good knowledge about the
three acts its provisions and penalties etc…..

18. THANK YOU