1. Short title, extent,
commencement and application.- (1) This Act may be
called the Plantations Labour Act, 1951.
(2) It extends to the whole of India except the State of
Jammu and Kashmir.
(3) It shall come into force on such date as the Central
Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.
(4) It applies to the following plantations, that is to say,-
(a) to any land used or intended to be used for growing tea,
coffee, rubber cinchona or cardamom which and measures 5 hectares
or more and in which fifteen or more persons are employed
or were employed on any day of the preceding twelve months;
(b) to any land used or intended to be used for growing any
other plant, which and measures 5 hectares or more and in
which fifteen more persons are employed or were employed on
any day of the preceding twelve months, if, after obtaining
the approval of the Central Government, the State Government
by notification in the Official Gazette, so directs.
Explanation.- Where any piece of land used for growing any
plant referred to in clause (a) or clause (b) of this sub-section
admeasures less than 5 hectares and is contiguous to any other
piece of land not being so used, but capable of being so used,
and both such pieces of land are under the management of the
same employer, then, for the purposes of this sub-section,
the piece of land first mentioned shall be deemed to be a
plantation, if the total area of both such pieces of land
admeasures 5 hectares or more
(5) The State Government may, by notification in the Official
Gazette, declare that all or any of the provisions of this
Act shall apply also to any land used or intended to be used
for growing any plant referred to in clause (a) or clause
(b) of sub-section (4), notwithstanding that-
(a) it admeasures less than 5 hectares or
(b) the number of persons employed therein is less than fifteen
Provided that no such declaration shall be made in respect
of such land which admeasured less than 5 hectares or in which
less than fifteen persons were employed, immediately before
the commencement of this Act.
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