3A. Appointment of registering officers.—The State Government may, by notification in the
Official Gazette,—
(a) appoint such persons, being Gazetted Officers of Government, as it thinks fit, to be registering
officers for the purposes of this Chapter, and
(b) define the limits within which a registering officer shall exercise the powers and discharge the
functions conferred or imposed on him by or under this Chapter.
3B. Registration of plantations.—(1) Every employer of a plantation, existing at the commencement
of the Plantation Labour (Amendment) Act, 1981 (58 of 1981) shall, within a period of sixty days of such
commencement, and every employer of any other plantation coming into existence after such
commencement shall, within a period of sixty days of the coming into existence of such plantation, make
an application to the registering officer for the registration of such plantation:
Provided that the registering officer may entertain any such application after the expiry of the period
aforesaid if he is satisfied that the applicant was prevented by sufficient cause from making the
application within such period.
(2) Every application made under sub-section (1) shall be in such form and shall contain such
particulars and shall be accompanied by such fees as may be prescribed.
(3) After the receipt of an application under sub-section (1), the registering officer shall register the
plantation.
(4) Where a plantation is registered under this section, the registering officer shall issue a certificate
of registration to the employer thereof in such form as may be prescribed.
(5) Where, after the registration of a plantation under this section, any change occurs in the ownership
or management or in the extent of the area or other prescribed particulars in respect of such plantation, the
particulars regarding such change shall be intimated by the employer to the registering officer within
thirty days of such change in such form as may be prescribed.
(6) Where as a result of any intimation received under sub-section (5), the registering officer is
satisfied that the plantation is no longer required to be registered under this section, he shall, by order in
writing, cancel the registration thereof and shall, as soon as practicable, cause such order to be published
in any one newspaper in the language of, and having circulation in, the area where the plantation is
situated.
3C. Appeals against orders of registering officer.—(1) Any person aggrieved by the order of a
registering officer under sub-section (6) of section 3B may, within thirty days of the publication of such
order in the newspaper under that sub-section, prefer an appeal to such authority as may be prescribed:
1. Ins. by Act 58 of 1981, s. 4 (w.e.f. 26-1-1982).
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Provided that the appellate authority may entertain an appeal under this sub-section after the expiry of
the aforesaid period if it is satisfied that the appellant was prevented by sufficient cause from preferring
the appeal within such period.
(2) After the receipt of an appeal under sub-section (1), the appellate authority may, after giving the
appellant, the employer referred to in sub-section (5) of section 3B and the registering officer an
opportunity of being heard in the matter, dispose of the appeal as expeditiously as possible.
3D. Power to make rules.—(1) The State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette,
make rules to carry out the purposes of this Chapter.
(2) In particular, and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such rules may
provide for all or any of the following matters, namely:—
(a) the form of application for the registration of a plantation, the particulars to be contained in
such application and the fees to be accompanied along with such application;
(b) the form of the certificate of registration;
(c) the particulars regarding any change in respect of which intimation shall be given by the
employer to the registering officer under sub-section (5) of section 3B and the form in which such
change shall be intimated;
(d) the authority to which an appeal may be preferred under section 3C and the fees payable in
respect of such appeal;
(e) the registers to be kept and maintained by a registering officer.]