Central Act 20 of 1946 to apply to beedi and cigar industrial premises .

The provisions of the Industrial Employment (Standing Orders), Act, 1946 (Central Act 20 of 1946), as in force for the time being, shall apply to every beedi and cigar industrial premises wherein fifty or more employees are employed or were employed on any one day of the preceding twelve months as if such beedi and cigar industrial premises were an industrial establishment to which the aforesaid Act has been applied by a notification under sub-section (3) of section 1 thereof, and as if the employee in the said premises were a workman within the meaning of that Act.