Industrial and Commercial Employment (Standing Orders) Ordinance, 1968 — section 1

1. Short title, extent and commencement..—(1) This Ordinance may be called the 1[* *] Industrial and Commercial Employment (Standing Orders) Ordinance, 1968.

(2)It extends to the whole of the 2[Pakistan] 3[* * *].

(3)It shall come into force at once.

(4)It applies to 4 [(a) every industrial establishment or commercial establishment wherein twenty or more workmen are employed, directly or through any other person whether on behalf of himself or any other person, or where so employed on any day during the preceding twelve months;]

(c)such class or classes of other industrial and commercial establishments as Government may, from time to time, by notification in the official Gazette, specify in this behalf: Provided that nothing in this Ordinance shall apply to industrial and commercial establishments carried on by or under the authority of the 5[Federal] or any Provincial Government, where statutory rules of service, conduct or discipline are applicable to the workmen employed therein 4[:] 1 Omitted by the Finance Act, 2008 (Act No. I of 2008),s.4, (w.e.f. 01-07-2008). 2 Substituted by the Federal Adaptation of Laws Order, 1975 (P. O. No. 4 of 1975), Article 2 read with Schedule. 3 Omitted by the Labour Laws (Amendment) Ordinance, 1972 (Ordinance No. IX of 1972), Article 2 read with First Schedule. 4 Substituted by Act No. XXIII of 1973, s. 2. 5 Substituted by Act No. XLVIII of 1974, s.2. 1 [Provided further that the provisions of Standing Orders 10B and 11, clauses (6) and (8) of Standing Order 12 and Standing Order 15 shall not apply, in the first instance, to any industrial establishment wherein not more than forty-nine persons were employed on any day during the preceding twelve months but Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, extend all or any of the said provisions to any such industrial establishment or any class of such establishment].