Industrial Relations Act, 2012 — section 1

1. Short title, extent, application and commencement..—(1) This Act may be called the Industrial Relations Act, 2012.

(2)Subject to sub-section (3), it extends to the whole of Pakistan.

(3)It shall apply to all persons employed in any establishment or industry, in the Islamabad Capital Territory or carrying on business in more than one province, but shall not apply to any person employed

(a)in the Police or any of the Defence Services of Pakistan or any services or installations exclusively connected with the Armed Forces of Pakistan including an Ordnance Factory maintained by the Federal Government;

(b)in the administration of the State other than those employed as workmen;

(c)as a member of the Security Staff of the Pakistan International Airlines Corporation or drawing wages in pay group not lower than Group V in the establishment of that Corporation as the Federal Government may, in the public interest or in the interest of security of the Airlines, by notification in the official Gazette, specify in this behalf;

(d)by the Pakistan Security Printing Corporation or the Security Papers Limited; and

(e)by an establishment or institution for the treatment or care of sick, infirm, destitute or mentally unfit persons excluding those run on commercial basis.

(4)It shall come into force at once.