Section 4: Establishment of Employment Service
consolidated text (as at 1972). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
4. Establishment of Employment Service
(1) The Minister may establish and maintain an Employment Service with
employment exchanges in such places as he thinks fit.
(2) The control and general superintendence of the employees of the
Employment Service and of its employment exchanges will be exercised by a
Controller, Employment Service.
(3) No person shall be disqualified or otherwise prejudiced in respect of
facilities provided at any employment exchange on account of his refusal to
accept employment found for him through such an exchange if the ground of
his refusal is that a trade dispute which affects his trade exists, or that the
wages offered are lower than those current in the trade in the district where
the employment is found.
(4) Without prejudice to subsection (1), the Minister may make such
arrangements as he considers expedient, whether by means of employment
exchanges or otherwise, for the collection and furnishing of information, and
the provision of advice, guidance or other services for persons of any class
(whether employed or not) for any of the purposes mentioned in this Act.
(5) The Minister may, in such cases and subject to such conditions as he
thinks fit, make payments by way of grant or loan to persons travelling to
places where work has been found for them by an employment exchange.
(6) Where any person, for the purpose of obtaining employment or procuring employees, knowingly makes any false statement or false representation to an officer of any employment exchange provided by the Minister under this section, or to any person acting for or for the purposes of any such
exchange, he shall commit an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a
fine not exceeding 25 rupees.
(7) The Minister shall, so far as practicable, make arrangements with
employers for the notification by them to employment exchanges of situations in their employment which are or are about to be vacant.
(8) The Minister may require any contractor who obtains a contract to
carry out work on behalf of Government to notify vacancies, in such occupations as the Minister thinks fit, to employment exchanges.
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