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CS Executive · Setting Up of Business, Industrial and Labour Laws · The Apprentices Act, 1961

Bharat Minerals Pvt Ltd places graduate apprentices for training in its coal mine in Jharkhand. Under the central text of Section 14 of the Apprentices Act, 1961, how are the health and safety of these apprentices governed?

Chapter V of the Mines Act, 1952 applies. Under Section 14, apprentices training in a mine are treated as if they were persons employed in the mine for health and safety purposes, so the Mines Act safeguards cover them.

  1. ABy Chapter V of the Mines Act, 1952, as if they were persons employed in the mineCorrect
  2. BBy Chapters III, IV and V of the Mines Act, 1952, as if they were mine owners
  3. CBy Chapter V of the Factories Act, 1948, as if they were workers
  4. DBy no statute, as the Apprentices Act leaves mines to the employer's policy

Explanation

Section 14 states that for apprentices training in a mine, Chapter V of the Mines Act, 1952 applies to their health and safety as if they were persons employed in the mine. The Factories Act option is wrong because that Act is linked only to factories.

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