Powers and duties of the Board.

(1) The Board shall be responsible for administering a scheme, and shall exercise such powers and perform such functions as may be conferred it by the scheme. (2) The Board may take such measures as it may deem fit for administering the scheme. (3) Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law, the Board may nominate persons or officers who would be competent to act on behalf of any manual worker to initiate action for making any claim under any law or rules made thereunder or award or settlement made under any such law and appear on behalf of the manual worker in such proceedings. (4) Notwithstanding anything contained in section 36 of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (Central Act XIV of 1947), the Board may nominate persons or officers who would be competent to act in an industrial dispute raised individually under section 2-A or collectively under section 2 (k) of the said Act to represent the workers in any conciliation proceedings or proceedings before Labour Courts, Industrial Tribunal or National Tribunal or before an Arbitrator under section 10-A of the said Act, if the Board has been authorised by the manual workers. (5) The Board shall submit to the Government as soon as may be, after the first day of April every year, the annual report on the working of the scheme during the proceeding year ending on thirty-first