The Ministry of Law and Justice (MoL&J), on November 19, 2025, issued the Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Andaman and Nicobar Islands (Amendment) Regulation, 2025, to further amend the Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970.
The following amendment has been stated:-
• In section 1, sub-section (4), clause (a), for the words “twenty or more workmen”, the words shall be substituted with:- “fifty or more workmen”.
• In section 1, sub-section (4), clause (b), for the words “twenty or more workmen”, the words shall be substituted with:- “fifty or more workmen”.
• In section 1, sub-section (4), in the proviso, for the words “less than twenty”, the words shall be substituted with:- “less than fifty”
• In section 2, after clause (g), the following clause shall be inserted, namely:— ‘(gg) “State Government” means the Administrator of the Union territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands appointed by the President under article 239 of the Constitution;’.
[Notification No. 8 of 2025]
