Appointment and power of Secretary

(1) The Government shall appoint a Secretary, who shall be the Chief Executive Officer of the Board. He shall have the status of a Deputy Labour Commissioner (Class I - Gazetted). (2) It shall be the duty of the Secretary to ensure that the provisions of this Act and the rules made thereunder are duly carried out and for this purpose he shall have the power to issue such orders not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act and the rules made thereunder as he deems fit including any order implementing the decisions taken by the Board under this Act or the rules made thereunder. If there is no quorum as laid down in rule 18, the Chairman shall, after waiting for thirty minutes after the expiration of the appointed hour, adjourn the meeting to such hour on some other future day as he may reasonably fix. A notice of such adjourned meeting shall be sent to every member of the Board and the business which would have been brought before the original meeting, had there been a quorum thereat shall be brought before the adjourned meeting and may be disposed of at such a meeting, whether there be a quorum or not.