Section 29 - Penalty for breach of settlement or award : Industrial Disputes Act 1947

What is the Penalty for breach of settlement or award? Section 29 of Industrial Disputes Act 1947

Section 29 of Industrial Disputes Act 1947 : "Penalty for breach of settlement or award"

29. Any person who commits a breach of any term of any settlement or award, which is binding on him under this Act, shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine or with both 69[and where the breach is a continuing one, with a further fine which may extend to two hundred rupees for every day during which the breach continues after the conviction for the first] and the Court trying the offence, if it fines the offender, may direct that the whole or any part of the fine realised from him shall be paid, by way of compensation, to any person who, in its opinion, has been injured by such breach.

STATE AMENDMENTS

ANDHRA PRADESH
After section 29 of the principal Act, the following section shall be inserted, namely :-

"29A. Penalty for failure to comply with an order issued under section 10B.-Any person who fails to comply with any provisions contained in an order made under sub-section (1) of section 10B shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than six months but which may extend to one year and with fine :

Provided that the Court may, for reasons to be recorded in its judgment, award a sentence or imprisonment for a term of less than six months." - Andhra Pradesh Act No. 32 of 1987.

KERALA
After section 29, the following section shall be inserted, namely :-

"29A. Penalty for failure to comply with an order issued under section 10B. - Any person who fails to comply with any provision contained in any order made under sub-section (7) of section 10B, shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than six months but which may extend to one year and with fine." - Kerala Act No. 30 of 1979.
TAMIL NADU

After section 29, the following section shall be inserted, namely:-

"29A. Penalty for failure to comply with an order issued under section 1OB. - Any person who fails to comply with any provision contained in any order made under sub-section (1) of section 10B, shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than six months but which may extend to one year and with fine." - Tamil Nadu Act No. 36 of 1982.