Karnataka Act 15 of 1965
Karnataka Labour Welfare Fund Act, 1965 (Karnataka Act 15 of 1965) — departmental consolidation
- Notification number
- Karnataka Act 15 of 1965
- Issued for
- Karnataka
- Date
- Date not stated
- Topic
- Act
What it says
The Act that levies the labour welfare fund contribution and defines which establishments owe it. Section 2(4) sets applicability — a factory, a motor omnibus service, a plantation or workshop with no headcount of their own, and any other establishment only above fifty persons. Note that this consolidation is NOT current on section 7A(2): the contribution it prints, twenty/forty/twenty rupees, was substituted by Karnataka Act 5 of 2025 and its footnote still cites the 2017 amendment as the latest.
What was taken from it
The figures and statements this desk reads off this document, as extracted. Each one is shown on the topic page it belongs to: Labour welfare fund · Karnataka.
- Amount Fixed By Statute
- The contribution is fixed in the Act, not by rule or circular
- Applies.Factory
- A factory is an establishment for this Act with no headcount of its own
- Applies.Other Establishment
- More than fifty persons
- Applies.Other Limbs
- A motor omnibus service, a plantation or a workshop, each with no headcount of its own
- Deduction Window
- The employee's share may be deducted only from December wages
- Due Date
- Paid by the employer to the Board on or before 15 January of the following year
- Register Date
- Every employee on the register on 31 December of the year
- Source.Caveat
- This consolidation is out of date on section 7A(2)