The Code on Social Security (Lakshadweep) Rules, 2025
Rule 39. Form and manner for maintenance of records, registers, returns etc
Official text
(1) (a) The employer of every establishment in which women are employed shall prepare and maintain a register of women employees in Form-XXII electronically or in hard copy and shall enter therein particulars of all women workers in the establishment. Further, it shall always be available for inspection under notified inspection scheme for the Inspector-cum- Facilitator.
(b) The employer may enter in the register of women employees such other particulars as may be required for any other purpose of the Code.
(2) (a) The records to be maintained for the purposes of Chapter V of the Code and the rules framed there under shall be preserved for a period of three years from the date of their preparation.
(b) The employer of every establishment in which employees are employed, shall prepare and maintain record and registers as per the record and registers to be maintained under the Code and the rules framed thereunder
(3) (a) The employer to which the provisions of Chapter V of the Code applies, on or before the 1st day of February in each year, upload a unified annual return in Form-XXII online on the web portal of the Government, giving information as to the particulars specified, in respect of the preceding year:
Provided that during inspection, the Inspector-cum-Facilitator may require the production of accounts, books, register and other documents maintained in electronic form or otherwise.
Explanation. - For the purposes of this sub-rule, the expression “electronic form” shall have the same meaning as assigned to it in clause (r) of section 2 of the Information Technology Act, 2000 (21 of 2000).
(b) If the employer to which the Code applies sells, abandons or discontinues the working of the establishment, then, he shall, within one month of the date of such sale or abandonment or four months of the date of such discontinuance, as the case may be, upload online, on the web portal of the Government or intimated by other means to the Labour Department UT Administration of Lakshadweep, further unified return in Form-XXII referred to in clause (a) in respect of the period between the end of the preceding year and the date of the sale, abandonment or discontinuance.