10-A. Parties to submit statements. - (1) The party representing workmen involved in an industrial dispute in a public utility service shall forward a statement of its demands along with a copy of the notice prescribed under Rule 70 to the Conciliation Officer concerned. The statement shall be accompanied by as many spare copies there of as there are opposite parties. (2) The party representing workmen, or in the case of an individual workmen, the workman, himself involved in a dispute in a non-public utility service shall forward a statement of its demands to the Conciliation Officer concerned before such date as may be specified by him for commencing conciliation proceedings. The statement shall be accompanied by as many spare copies thereof as there are opposite parties.
(2-A) The conciliation Officer shall send to the opposite party concerned a copy of the statement received under sub-rule (1) or sub-rule (2), as the case may be, who shall file its rejoinder with the Conciliation Officer within a period of one week of its receipt:
Provided that the Conciliation Officer may when he considers necessary extend the time limit for the filing of the rejoinder by any party.
(3) The statement of demands submitted by [he party representing the workmen, or in the case of individual workman by the workman himself] under sub-rule (1) or sub-rule (2) along with a copy of the rejoinder submitted under sub-rule (2-A) shall be transmitted to the State government by the Conciliation Officer concerned with his report under subsection (4) of Section 12.
(4) Where an employer, or the party representing the workmen, or in the case of individual workman, the workman himself applies to the State Government for reference of an industrial dispute to a Labour Court of Tribunal, such application shall be accompanied by a statement of the demands or matters in dispute with as many spare copies thereof as there are opposite parties. (5) The statement referred to in sub-rules (1), (2) and (4) and every copy thereof required under the said sub-rules to accompany the said statement shall be duly signed, on behalf of the party, by the person making it.
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