Section 84: Provisions relating to tea-estate labours

1) The obligations of the employers towards the tea-estate labourers shall be as follows:

(a) To make arrangements for suitable quarters within the tea-estate for the labourers who do not have their own settlement near the tea-state and their dependent family members,

(b) To make arrangements for free first-aid-service for the treatment of minor injuries sustained by the labourers and their dependent family members and for trained medical staff, medical items for that purpose,

(c) To make arrangements for the easy availability of daily consumable goods if there is no market facility near the tea-estate,

(d) To make proper arrangements for sports and entertainment for the physical and mental development of the tea-estate labourers and their dependent family members.

Explanation: For the purpose of this Section, –

(1) “Tea estate” means a tea-estate registered pursuant to the prevailing law, and this term also includes a factory, other physical infrastructures established within the tea-estate and
its premises.

(2) “Tea-estate labour” means labour who does the work of digging, ploughing, levelling, cutting, plucking, scattering, sowing, collecting, uprooting or similar other work in the
land of a tea estate, and this term also includes labour who is engaged in tea processing and any other work of the tea estate.

(3) “Dependent family” means his or her family member who lives with a tea-estate labour and whom he or she has to maintain.

2) This Section shall not be deemed to bar the making of an agreement between the labour working in a tea-estate and the employer in relation to any work of the tea-estate to be performed.