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Section 19
The Maharashtra Private Security Guards (Regulation of Employment and Welfare) Act, 1981Maharashtra

Section 19. Application of Workmen's Compensation Act to Security Guards

The provisions of the Workmen's Compensation Act, 1923, and the rules made thereunder, shall mutatis mutandis apply to the registered Security Guards employed in any factory or establishment ; and for that purpose they shall be deemed to be workmen within the meaning of that Act ; and in relation to such workmen, employer shall mean where a Board makes payment of wages to any such workmen, the Board, and in any other case, the 1[principal employer] as defined in this Act.

1Superscript markers show text inserted or substituted by a later amendment. The Act carries the markers without the footnotes they refer to, so they are shown without a target.