Rule 70. Conditions for permit for cutting and wetting under sub-section (1) of section 76

(1) The Government may permit the wetting or cutting of beedi or tobacco leaves by employees outside the industrial premises on an application made to it by employer on behalf of such employees.

(2) The employer shall maintain in the prescribed form arecord of the work permitted under sub-section (1) to be carried on outside the industrial premises.

(3) Save as otherwise provided in this section, no employer shall require or allow any manufacturing process connected with the making of beedi or cigar or both to be carried on outside the industrial premises:

Provided that nothing in this sub-section shall apply to any labour who is given raw material by an employer or a contractor for being made into bee dior cigar or both at home