Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act : Freed bonded labourer not to be evicted from homestead, etc.

Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act,1976

Act No : 19

Section : Freed bonded labourer not to be evicted from homestead, etc.

8. Freed bonded labourer not to be evicted from homestead, etc.- (1) No person who has been freed and discharged under this Act from any obligation to render any bonded labour, shall be evicted from any homestead or other residential premises which he was occupying immediately before the commencement of this Act as part of the consideration for the bonded labour. (2) If, after the commencement of this Act, any such person is evicted by the creditor from any homestead or other residential premises, referred to in sub-section (1), the Executive Magistrate in charge of the Sub-Division within which such homestead or residential premises is situated shall, as early as practicable, restore the bonded labourer to the possession of such homestead or other residential premises.