Bare Act
The Maharashtra Private Placement Agencies (Regulation) Act, 2025
The Maharashtra Private Placement Agencies (Regulation) Act, 2025 regulates private recruitment agencies operating within Maharashtra or placing candidates in the state. It requires all private placement agencies to register with state authorities, renew their certificates every five years, and transparently display their registration details and service fees. Educational campus placements are exempt. The law mandates that agencies protect job seekers' personal data, avoid fraudulent job offers, maintain placement registers, and ensure placements comply with minimum age laws. This legislation matters because it protects job seekers from deceptive practices, fee gouging, and illegal exploitation while introducing government oversight over recruitment operations.
- 1. Short title and commencement.
- 2. Definitions.
- 3. Regulation of placement activities.
- 4. Registration of private placement agency and renewal thereof.
- 5. Renewal of registration certificate.
- 6. Cancellation or suspension of registration certificate.
- 7. Appeals.
- 8. State Controlling and Monitoring Authority. State Controlling and Monitoring Authority.
- 9. Responsibilities and duties of private placement agencies. Responsibilities and duties of private placement agencies.
- 10. Facilitation to private placement agencies. Facilitation to private placement agencies.
- 11. Offences. Offences.
- 12. Offences by companies. Offences by companies.
- 13. Protection of acts done in good faith. Protection of acts done in good faith.
- 14. Provisions of this Act to be in addition to any other law. Provisions of this Act to be in addition to any other law.
- 15. Power to make rules. Power to make rules.
- 16. Power to remove difficulties. Power to remove difficulties.
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