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Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act, 1992 (Act No. III of 1992).

Main Region

First Region

Pakistan
Elimination of forced labour
1992-03-11
National
Law, Act

Second Region

This Act abolishes the bonded labour system in Pakistan, and discharges all bonded labourers from any obligation to render such labour. All property forcibly taken by creditors for the recovery of bonded debt must be returned, and encumbrances relating to bonded debt are no longer valid. Vigilance Committees at the District level, composed of representatives of government, social services, lawyers and journalists are to supervise its implementation, assist the rehabilitation of freed bonded labourers, and provide them with assistance to achieve the objectives of the law. Those persons contravening the Act are subject to imprisonment of two to five years, or a fine of fifty thousand rupees, or both. The Act is also published in Eastern Worker, 1992-06, Vol. 32, Nos. 6 and 7, pp. 8-13. Consolidated text in: M.Shafi, Complete Set of Labour Laws (Karachi: Bureau of Labour Publications, various editions).

Entry dates region

    Date of entry into force
    1992-03-11
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Implementing Text region

Electronic region

Serial region

    Serial title
    Gazette, Extraordinary
    Date
    1992-03-17
    Page range
    pp. 1-29
    ISBN
    0012-8953